19 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (19 Feb 1830 – 15 Feb 1912 | Hitesburg VA – Bloomfield NJ) author, memoirist, novelist, journal writer, fundraiser, preservationist, Civil War historian, social / community / women and children’s activist.


Elizabeth Ann Claridge McCune (19 Feb 1852 – 01 Jan 1924 | Bedfordshire UK – Salt Lake City UT) civic activist, genealogy lecturer, pioneering unofficial female Mormon missionary, advocated LDS allow single women as missionaries [1898].


Annie Nathan Meyer (19 Feb 1867 – 23 Sep 1951 | New York NY – New York NY) author, playwright, Barnard College founder, women’s educational rights activist / advocate.


Lugenia Burns Hope (19 Feb 1871 – 14 Aug 1947 | St Louis MO – Nashville TN) social reformer, civil rights activist, African-American, community organizer, Atlanta Neighborhood Union founder / director.


Mae Elizabeth [Hope] Hampton (19 Feb 1897 – 23 Jan 1982 | Houston TX – New York NY) actress, producer, aspiring opera singer.