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23 hours ago · The attorney and social justice activist Belva Ann Lockwood was a trailblazer for women’s rights and the first woman to run for president. As a teacher in the 1850s, she reduced gender inequality in education by implementing fitness and public speaking classes for girls.
2 days ago · Belva Ann Lockwood, who ran in 1884, and Victoria Woodhull, who ran a decade earlier, pioneered seeking elected office for women, and had deep ties to the women’s rights movement. Their campaigns challenged societal norms when women didn’t even have the right to vote.
2 days ago · Just 25 women, a handful of whom were women of colour, have run significant presidential campaigns in the US. Victoria Woodhull was the first, a white woman who ran in 1872, although women did not yet have the vote. Belva Lockwood followed in the 1880s.
6 days ago · From well-known figures, such as Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth to lesser known women such as Alice Paul, Jovita Idár, and Mary Church Terrell, these are heroes who dreamed big and never gave up. Senator Gillibrand highlights an important and pithy lesson from each woman's life — from "dare to be different" to "fight together."
3 days ago · Belva Lockwood (1830-1917) was an American school principal, politician, author and the first female attorney to argue a case before the US Supreme Court. That took place in 1880. She also ran for President of the United States on two separate occasions with the National Equal Rights Party.
3 days ago · Foto Mathew Brady Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, circa 1880. Foto Benjamin Joseph Falk/National Portrait Gallery Ze was kandidaat namens de Equal Rights Party, die vlak voor de verkiezingen van 1872 ...
1 day ago · Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court; Law School Syngman Rhee , first president of South Korea ; Columbian College, '07 J. Edgar Hoover , first FBI Director ; Law School, '16
