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

Helen Keller
Florence Kelly
Annie Kenney

Maxine Hong Kingston
Barbara Kingsolver

Helen Keller
b. 6-27-1880; Tuscumbia, AL
d. 6-1-1968

Poster Text:

When she was nineteen month sold, Helen Keller became ill with what doctors called “brain fever.” The illness left her blind and deaf – and therefore unable to speak. She was cut off from the world around her. But despite years of struggle and pain, she conquered her tremendous physical disabilities, becoming a shining example of courage to millions of people. ...

As an adult, she traveled extensively and worked on behalf of the blind. She wrote many books and received hundreds of awards for her work. Her autobiography became an inspiration to million of people all over the world.

• more Helen Keller posters
• more Great American Women posters

Florence Kelley
b. 9-12-1859; Philadelphia, PA
d. 2-17-1932; Germantown

Florence Kelley, a social and political reformer associated with Hull House, worked against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights.

• Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900

• History of Labor Posters

Annie Kenney
b. 9-13-1879; England
d. 7-9-1953; diabetes

Annie Kenney, born into a working class family, worked in a mill where she was paid less than men for the dangerous work (she lost a finger). Kinney, along with Christabel Pankhurst, heckled Winston Churchill in 1905, demanding to know his position on “Votes for Women.”

Two of Kenney's sisters became Montessori teachers.

• Memories of a Militant

Barbara Kingsolver
b. 4-8-1955; Annapolis, MD

Novelist, essayist and poet Barbara Kingsolver focuses on social justice, biodiversity, community and the environment. She also has a Masters Degree in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Barbara Kingsolver quotes ~
• “It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”
• “What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.”
• “Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.”

Maxine Hong Kingston
b. 10-27-1940; Stockton, CA

Maxine Hong Kingston is an activist, award winning Chinese-American writer and Professor Emeritus at the University of California.

“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned...we could be heroines, swordswomen... Night after night my mother would talk-story until we fell asleep. I couldn't tell where the stories left off and the dreams began, her voice the voice of the heroines in my sleep.”
- The Woman Warrior

• more Voices of Diversity posters

Alexandra Kollontai
b. 3-31-1872; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 3-9- 1952

Revolutionary communist Alexandra Kollontai, urged both men and women to discard their nostalgia for traditional family life. “The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers.” In 1923, she was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Norway, becoming the world's first female ambassador.

Maggie Kuhn
b. 8-3-1905; Buffalo, NY
d. 4-22-1995; Philadelphia

Maggie Kuhn, who dedicated her life to fighting for human rights, social and economic justice, global peace, integration, and an understanding of mental health issues, is best remembered for founding the Gray Panthers movement in 1971 after being forced into retirement by the Presbyterian Church.

Maggie Kuhn quotes ~
• “Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes.”
• “Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
• “Few people know how to be old.”
• “Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”