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

Fannie Lou Hamer
Ida Husted Harper
Dorothy Height

Emily Hobhouse
bell hooks
Julia Ward Howe

Fannie Lou Hamer,
née Townsend
b. 10-6-1917; Sunflower Co., MS
d. 3-14-1977; Mound Bayou, MS

Fannie Lou Hamer was a plain-spoken activist remembered and loved for her use of Bible verses and hymns to demand civil rights.

Fannie Lou Hamer quotes ~
• “Nobody's free until everybody's free.”
• “I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
• “One night I went to the church. They had a mass meeting. And I went to the church, and they talked about how it was our right, that we could register and vote. They were talking about we could vote out people that we didn't want in office, we thought that wasn't right, that we could vote them out. That sounded interesting enough to me that I wanted to try it. I had never heard, until 1962, that black people could register and vote.”
• “When they asked for those to raise their hands who'd go down to the courthouse the next day, I raised mine. Had it high up as I could get it. I guess if I'd had any sense I'd've been a little scared, but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.”

Ida Husted Harper
b. 2-18-1851; Fairfield, Indiana
d. 3-14-1931; Washington, DC

Ida Husted Harper was a journalist who documented the women's suffrage movement in the United States.

• The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper

Dorothy Irene Height
b. 3-24-1912; Richmond, VA
d. 4-20-2010; Washington, DC

Social activist Dorothy Height, a 2004 recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal, initiated food, child care, housing, and career educational programs. In 1986 she began the Black Family Reunion Celebration to emphasize the positive aspects of the African-American family.

Dorothy Height quote ~
• “We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.”
• “No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. . . . We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.”
• “Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.”

Emily Hobhouse
b. 4-9-1860; Cornwall, England
d. 6-8-1926; London

Welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse is best remembered for drawing attention to the horrid condition Boer women and children endured in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War.

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, bell hooks (no commecially available poster)

bell hooks
née Gloria Jean Watkins
b. 9-25-1952; Hopkinsville, KY

bell hooks, the pen name of Gloria Jan Watkins, is a feminist and social activist whose writng focuses on the interconnectivity of race, class and gender. She is a professor of English and has published numerous books of poetry and nonfiction.

Julia Ward Howe
b. 5-27-1819; NYC
d. 10-17-1910; Portsmouth, RI

Julia Ward Howe, an abolitionist, political and social activist, poet, playwright, and philosopher, is most famous for her poem set to music as the “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

One of the phrases in the Battle Hymn “grapes of wrath” was used by John Steinbeck as the title for his 1939 novel.

• Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 - Volume I by Laura Howe Richards
• Diva Julia: The Public Romance And Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe

Dolores Huerta
b. 4-10-1930; Dawson, NM

Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later became the United Farm Workers.

In non-violent civil disobedience activities advocating for farmworkers' rights Huerta has been arrested twenty-two times.

• Latino Heritage
• History of Labor posters

Anne Hutchinson
b. July, 1591; England
d. 8-20-1643; killed by Indians in what is now Pelham Bay Park, NY.

Anne Hutchinson, née Marbury, was a key figure in the development of religious freedom in the American colonies. She taught that salvation was through inward grace and not through performing religious works.

Anne Hutchinson quotes ~
• “One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.”

• American Jezebel, The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans