have you seen the daily bios in the women's rights group?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1138

and then you can see all the different bios and events in herstory, etc

thread or the bios there or would you like to?

Mary Wollstonecraft

Emmeline Pankhurst

Ada Lovelace

Aphra Behn

By Elizabeth McQuillan

Looking at the history and heritage of Scotland, it is heaving with male figures that have stepped up to the mark and made some impact or contribution. Whether through their words, actions, creativity or steely determination, there are rich pickings. Unfortunately, there is very little literature featuring the many Scottish women who deserve equal recognition.

Thankfully, a group of historians have brought this information together in Women’s History Scotland. This provides a much-needed database for researchers to find documents and biographies relevant to Scottish women in history.
An initiative by the same group resulted in The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, published by Edinburgh University Press. This dictionary contains entries on 830 women (from earliest times to the end of 2004), written by a team of 280 scholars. A glance at a few biographies highlights the gaps in the history taught at school.

Consider the suffragette movement (taken from the Latin “vote”). Poor historical grounding means that I believed the movement to be very much a London-based phenomenon. Ladies chained themselves to the palace railings, Emily Pankhurst leading the fight and the tragic Emily Davidson killed under the king’s horse at the Derby of 1913, thus making her mark in history. In Scotland, the suffrage movement had actually appeared in the 1860’s, demanding justice and equality for all women; at home, in the workplace, in courts of law and in education. They demanded the right to vote as a basic human right. And they were just as active as their sisters in the South.

After 30 years of peaceful protest, and no results, the ladies became a little more militant. The new campaigners called themselves Suffragettes. The Suffragettes wanted the same things as the earlier Suffragists, but were prepared to put themselves at risk of being imprisoned for their beliefs. Scottish ladies such as Janie Allan (1868-1968), a shipping merchant’s daughter from Glasgow, took part in activities such as smashing windows, slashing portraits of the king and setting fire to buildings at Leuchars Railway Station and Ayr Racecourse.

Farmer’s daughter Marion Gilchrist (1864-1952), while a strong supporter of the women’s suffrage, worked on the family farm and read medical books in her spare time. She was a member of the organisation, but concentrated her efforts on demonstrating women’s equality. She went to university to study medicine as soon as it became possible for a woman to become an academic. In 1894 she and Alice Cumming became the first women in Scotland to gain the university medical qualification MBChB.

Elsie Maude Inglis (1864-1917) was another women’s suffrage supporter who demonstrated her abilities as an equal by studying medicine in 1886 and excelling. She succeeded in being awarded the Triple Qualification of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In 1915, she created the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Home and Foreign Service. Hospitals were set up in France, Greece and Serbia to nurse wounded soldiers. A hospital in Edinburgh was named after her.

Continue reading here

http://www.womenshistoryscotland.org/index.php

Sadly the article has over looked famous Gaelic women like Màiri Mhor nan Oran.
http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMArticlesMairiMhornanOran.aspx

Native Voices: Tribute to Native American Women:

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WTF is wrong with DU3?

threads don't get as many views as some other topics.

look at the women's rights group

Rosa Parks, who has been called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, well remembers the first time she met Septima Clark.

It was at a civil rights workshop in Tennessee in the summer of 1955. African-Americans and sympathetic whites had begun to meet quietly, secretly, throughout the South to plan their counterattacks against the segregation system, and to train the new corps of volunteers for that fight. These volunteers would come to be called civil rights workers. Septima Clark, already a 30-year veteran of her people's struggle, was one of the trainers.

"At that time I was very nervous, very troubled in my mind about the events that were occurring in Montgomery," Rosa Parks says. "But then I had the chance to work with Septima. She was such a calm and dedicated person in the midst of all that danger. I thought, 'If I could only catch some of her spirit.' I wanted to have the courage to accomplish the kinds of things that she had been doing for years." After the sessions with Clark, Parks returned to Montgomery saying she had a firmness and self-confidence she had not felt before. Three months later she refused to give up her seat on a bus so that a white person could sit down, the act which marks the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.
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http://www.safero.org/articles/septima.html

Everybody needs to know about her!

http://www.canadianstudies.ca/NewJapan/mcclungunit.html
In addition to publishing sixteen volumes of work, including novels, fiction, essays, autobiographies and speeches, Nellie McClung was also an influential activist for labour issues, workers' rights, women's suffrage, and married women's property rights. In 1921, she was elected to Alberta's legislature and fought for women's rights and prohibition. When, in 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided against women holding public office on the grounds that they were not "persons," McClung and four other women (known as "The Famous Five&quot fought what was to be known as "The Persons Case" all the way to the Privy Council in Britain. In 1929, the Privy Council reversed this decision and called women's exclusion from public office "a relic of days more barbarous than ours" ( qtd in Canadian Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p 1645). McClung was also active in organizations such as the Winnipeg Political Equality League, the Canadian Women's Press Club as well as suffrage and temperence organizations in Alberta. She was served as the first woman member of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1936-1942 and represented Canada as a delegate for the League of Nations in 1938.

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~bpg2/Underground%20Railroad/5Resources.html

PS: Thank you for a great OP and thread, Justice wanted!

Emma Goldman: Emma Goldman (June 27 [O.S. June 15] 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman

Maria Montessori: Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Catholic best known for the philosophy of education which bears her name. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (August 7, 1890 – September 5, 1964) was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage. She joined the American Communist Party in 1936 and late in life, in 1961, became its chairwoman. She died during a visit to the Soviet Union, where she was accorded a state funeral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn

Rosa Luxemburg (Rosalia Luxemburg, Polish: Róża Luksemburg; 5 March 1871,[1] Zamość, Vistula Land, Russia – 15 January 1919, Berlin, Germany) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was successively a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg

Lucy Parsons (born c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was an American labor organizer and radical socialist. She is remembered as a powerful orator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones, January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937; English pronunciation: / ˈiːdɪ? ˈwɔːrtən/), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton

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oh, am I hyping my own thread? *blinking innocently* ?

nah.......




seriously, though, longship's links are really good!

Emmy Noether

Golda Meir

Anne Frank

Here

I wasn't political when she was active, so I didn't really know about her. My loss, definitely--I see that, reading those quotes from her.

Wouldn't she have loved to have been here with President Obama in charge? (I'm sure she would have skewered where skewering was needed. I would actually respect critique coming from her.)

Biography
Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students' revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licenciateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences. She met Pierre Curie, Professor in the School of Physics in 1894 and in the following year they were married. She succeeded her husband as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, the first time a woman had held this position. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914.
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Mme. Curie, quiet, dignified and unassuming, was held in high esteem and admiration by scientists throughout the world. She was a member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 until her death and since 1922 she had been a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. Her work is recorded in numerous papers in scientific journals and she is the author of Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives (1904), L'Isotopie et les Éléments Isotopes and the classic Traité' de Radioactivité (1910).

The importance of Mme. Curie's work is reflected in the numerous awards bestowed on her. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world. Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity. She also received, jointly with her husband, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903 and, in 1921, President Harding of the United States, on behalf of the women of America, presented her with one gram of radium in recognition of her service to science.


http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html