Martha Washington foreshadowed woman suffrage when she famously asked her husband in 1776 to ”remember the ladies” in making a new code of laws.

British activist Emily Davison became a martyr to the cause of woman suffrage at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

When Elizabeth Cady married lawyer Henry Brewster Stanton, she removed the word obey from her wedding vows.

In 1848 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention.

Suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst and Christabel Pankhurst were sisters.

Alice Paul led the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913, mounted on a white horse.

Feminist and suffragist M. Carey Thomas, the second president of Bryn Mawr College, received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Zürich.

Like many other noted suffragists, Susan B. Anthony was influenced by Quakerism.

African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth’s first language was Yoruba.

In addition to starting a dress-reform movement, activist Amelia Bloomer founded and edited a newspaper for women.