Women Activists Educational Posters, “F...-”
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and theme decor.

Susan Faludi
Fanny Fern
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Clara S. Foltz
Marilyn French
Betty Friedan

Susan Faludi
b. 4-18-1959; Queens, NY

Susan Faludi is a Pulitizer winning author and journalist. Her book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1991.

Fanny Fern
née Sara Payson Willis
b. 7-9-1811; Portland, ME
d. 10-10-1872; Manhattan (cancer)

Fanny Fern, the pen name of Sara Payson Willis Parton who was a novelist and children's author, was also the highest paid newspaper writer in the United States in 1855.

Sara attended Catharine Beecher's school in Hartford, was a suffrage supporter, praised the work of Walt Whitman and co-founded Sorosis, the first professional women's club in the US.

FYI- Sara Payson Willis Parton's brother Richard Storrs Willis wrote the melody for “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”.

• Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
b. 8-7-1890; Concord, NH
d. 9-5-1964; Soviet Union

Labor leader, activist and feminist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and late in life became chairwoman of the American Communist Party.

Flynn died during a visit to the Soviet Union and was given a state funeral.

Clara S. Foltz
b. 7-16-1849; Lafayette, IN
d. 9-2-1934; California

A leader in women's suffrage Clara Shortridge Foltz became the first woman lawyer on the West Coast after her husband abandoned her and their five children. Foltz also introduced the concept of public defender, a then-radical idea of providing assistance to indigent criminal defendants.

Foltz was the older sister of US Senator Samuel M. Shortridge and a descentant of Daniel Boone.

Marilyn French
b. 11-21-1929; Brooklyn, NY
d. 5-2-2009; Manhattan

Marilyn French was the author of The Women's Room: A Novel portraying feminist movement of the 1950s and 60s.

Betty Friedan
b. 2-4-1921; Peoria, IL
d. 2-4-2006; Washington, DC

Betty Friedan, feminist, activist, and writer, is best remembered for her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique and cofounding the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Elizabeth Fry, née Gurney
b. 5-21-1780; England
d. 10-12-1845; Ramsgate, stroke

Elizabeth Fry, a Quaker, was the driving force in English prison reform and abolishing capital punishment. As a social reformer and a philanthropist, she used her personal social status and wealth to garner support from such people as Queen Victoria in providing shelter for the homeless and “visitors” to the homes of the very poor. Her brother Joseph John Gurney was active in the Abolitionist movement.

• Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry
• The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands

Margaret Fuller
b. 5-23-1810; Cambridge, MA
d. 6-19-1850; ship wreck off Fire Isl., NY

Margaret Fuller was a women's rights activist, journalist, and Transcentalist. She was also an educator, bringing women together for “conversations” meant to compensate for the lack of formal educaton for women. Fuller was the New York Tribune's first woman editor (1844), and also its first woman foreign correspondent. It was on her return to the US that she died in a ship wreck.

FYI - Margaret was the great-aunt of architect R. Buckminster Fuller.

• The Portable Margaret Fuller
• Margaret Fuller quote poster - “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”