Women's Herstory Month
Women's Herstory Month
Celebrate this important month by quizzing yourself on how well you know women's herstory! For more information about these and other inspiring women visit our museum in downtown Atlanta! For hours & online ticket purchases visit www.civilandhumanrights.org
Celebrate this important month by quizzing yourself on how well you know women's herstory! For more information about these and other inspiring women visit our museum in downtown Atlanta! For hours & online ticket purchases visit www.civilandhumanrights.org
This “First Lady of the World” was integral to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Which influential woman led the effort to keep Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers in Atlanta in 2006?
This group, led by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, was the first to officially call for a boycott of the Montgomery Bus system in 1955.
While attending this university, Diane Nash became an active organizer of the student sit-in movement in Nashville, Tennessee and would go on to become one of the leaders of the Freedom Rides.
Sister Consuelo Morales works to protect the rights of citizens of this country whose human rights are being violated by security forces and police who are abusing their power while combating drug cartels.
Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, this 15-year old high school student was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger.
Inspired by the events of Bloody Sunday, this local activist and mother of 5 from Detroit was compelled to help with voter registration efforts in Selma.
This student leader was part of the Atlanta Student Movement, active as a founding member and only female field secretary of SNCC and arrested multiple times for being involved in lunch-counter sit-ins.
This grandmother created Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, an organization that assists with finding stolen babies who disappeared during Argentina’s “Dirty War” from 1976 to 1983.