History That's More Than 2-Dimensional.

Personality: Intellectual

July 25, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Jess Wade

Academic Who Writes Wikipedia Pages for Female Scientists

She wrote 270 Wikipedia articles in a single year -- “I had a target for doing one a day, but sometimes I get too excited and do three.”

June 22, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

The first black female publisher in North America

She was the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, one of the first black female lawyers in the United States and an advocate for granting women the right to vote.

June 7, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Amelia Bloomer

America's First Women-Aimed News Publisher

The publisher of America's first newspaper by and for women - and someone sadly overshadowed by her more-famous contemporaries.

May 31, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Esther Morris

America's First Female Justice of the Peace

Fifty years before women got the federal right to vote, this legal agent became “the terror of all rogues.”

May 31, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Esther Morris

America's First Female Justice of the Peace

50 years before women got the federal right to vote, Esther Morris became America's first female justice of the peace. A contemporary newspaper called her “the terror of all rogues” and said she offered “infinite delight to all lovers of peace and virtue."

April 10, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Regina Anderson

The Harlem Renaissance's Librarian

Her apartment, which she dubbed Dream Haven, was a “who’s-who of the Harlem Renaissance: artists, poets, writers, songwriters, intellectuals, and activists” - everyone from Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes to W.E.B. Du Bois.

March 28, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Beate Klarsfeld

Professional Nazi Hunter

Together with her husband Serge, this woman has spent her life tracking down war criminals and bringing them to justice.

March 19, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Marielle Franco

Brazil's Anti-Police-Brutality Martyr Activist

When she was assassinated for her critiques of the police, protests broke out across Brazil.

February 6, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Lakshmikutty Amma

Grandmother of the Jungle

This 75-year-old can prepare 500 herbal medicines from memory - and she just won India's 4th-highest civilian honor, the Padma Shri Award!

December 21, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Elizebeth Smith Friedman

WW2's Most Awesome Codebreaker

J Edgar Hoover called America's first female codebreaker “one of the cleverest woman operators I have encountered. Cultured, businesslike, cunning… she presented one of the most difficult problems in detection the FBI has tackled in this war.”