Forgotten Foremothers link library

A header image with two women--one with long hair, one with an afro--with their fists raised. Text reads, "Forgotten Foremothers. Profiles of lesser-known heroines in the fight for women's rights by Kathryn S. Gardiner"
Hazel Ying Lee, Chinese American WASP aviator
Harriet Robinson, wife of Dred Scott
Augusta T. Chissell, columnist “A Primer for Women Voters”
Pretty Shield, Crow medicine-woman
Lucy Hicks Anderson, Black woman put on trial in the 1940s
Eugenie Kountze Nicholson, Indiana suffragist
Photographer Dorothea Lange and the “Migrant Mother,” Florence Owens Thompson
Pat Parker, Black lesbian poet
Dorothy Toy/Shigeko Takahashi, Japanese American jazz dancer
The Women of the 1944 Sonderkomanndo Revolt at Auschwitz
Susie King Taylor, nurse with the 33rd USCT during the Civil War
Irene Morgan, fought segregation laws in Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Lee Puey You, Chinese immigrant detained on Angel Island
Warriors of Little Bighorn
Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress
Aurora Lucero-White Lea, New Mexican suffragist and Spanish-language advocate
Alice Coachman and Audrey “Mickey” Patterson, 1948 Team USA Olympic medalists
Eugenie Clark, “The Shark Lady”
Mrs. Nash, “trans midwife” of Custer’s 7th Cavalry
Laura Bridgman, blind and deaf woman educated before Helen Keller
Frances Thompson, 1866 Memphis Massacre rape survivor
Eva Gore-Booth, Irish poet, suffragist, and pacifist
Elizabeth Freeman (Mumbet), sued for her freedom in Massachusetts in 1781
Hind Taher al-Husseini, Jerusalem-born activist and educator
Susette “Bright Eyes” LaFlesche Tibbles, Omaha journalist and translator
Samira Azzam, Palestinian writer and activist
Dollree Mapp, the “Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment”
Author Favorite: Roberta Cowell, soldier, pilot, driver, trans woman
Author Favorite: María Orosa, Filipina scientific innovator
Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías, reproductive rights advocate
Author Favorite: Recy Taylor, rape survivor who demanded justice
Author Favorite: Daisy Bates, civil rights activist involved with the Little Rock Nine
Author Favorite: Carrie Langston Hughes, mother of writer Langston Hughes
Donna Tobias, U.S. Navy’s First Female Deep Sea Diver
Author Favorite: Matilda Joslyn Gage, gathered a list of overlooked women inventors
Author Favorite: Toni Stone, first Black woman pro baseball player
Author Favorite: Mary Jones, gender non-conforming sex worker in the 1830s
Eliza Suggs, born 1876, disabled author and poet
Author Favorite: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Author Favorite: Celia, 18, put on trial in 1855 for murdering her abuser
Author Favorite: Rosa May Billinghurst, disabled suffragist
Osh-Tisch, Crow tribe badé
Author Favorite: Mary Garrett Hay, suffragist and lifelong companion of Carrie Chapman Catt
Author Favorite: “Stagecoach Mary” Fields, rough-talking mail deliverer in the 1890s
Author Favorite: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, African American poet and suffragist
Author Favorite: Zitkála-Šá, Sioux Dakota writer and residential school survivor
Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese American radical activist
Author Favorite: Anna Murray Douglass, first wife of Frederick Douglass
Author Favorite: Fannie Lou Hamer, activist for racial justice and voting rights
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War surgeon, Medal of Honor recipient
Maggie Lena Walker, first Black woman in U.S. to own a bank
Charlotte E. Ray, USA’s first Black woman lawyer
Adelaide Knight, disabled activist for the working class of London’s East End
Liliʻuokalani, the first and last Queen of Hawaii
Virginia Howard Billedeaux, South Piegan Blackfeet
Eta Chajit Wrobel, Jewish partisan fighter in WWII Poland
Dolores Cacuango, Ecuador’s “Mama Warrior”
Tomoe Gozen, onna-musha, female samurai
Kitty Cone, disability rights activist
We’wha, Zuni lhamana
The Army of Three, 1960’s abortion rights activists
Estelle Hall Young and daughter Dr. Louise Young
Josefina Guerrero, Filipina World War II spy
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, poet, journalist, and activist
Tye Leung Schulze, Chinese American translator and activist
Nina Salaman, Jewish scholar, poet, Hebrew translator
Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Mutsimiuma), Cheyenne warrior
Thelma Glass, Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer
Mary A. McCurdy, suffragist and civil rights activist
Nancy Wake, WWII spy
Maria Tallchief, ballerina
Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Chinese suffragist and economist
Stormé DeLarverie, drag performer, bouncer, Stonewall Inn
Lillian Wald, nurse in the 1918 influenza outbreak