New York: Women's History
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Resources on the March 25, 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, New York City, in which 146 died, mostly women who were Jewish and Italian immigrants.
Suffrage March - New York, 1912
Photographs from a New York suffrage march, March 6, 1912.
Suffrage March 1913
Photograph of a demonstration for women's rights in New York City in 1913.
Anthony, Susan B.
A New Yorker, Anthony is known as one of the chief women's rights activists through the 19th century in America.
Ayres, Anne
Anne Ayres, an emigrant in 1836 to New York City, founded the first orders for women in the Episcopal Church in America, and helped found St. Johnland on Long Island.
Beers, Ethel Lynn
She lived in New York and New Jersey, and is best known for her poem, "The Picket Guard," sometimes known as "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight."
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Native of England, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman doctor of medicine in the United States and set up practice, with her sister Emily Blackwell and with Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska, in New York.
Britton, Elizabeth
She helped to organize the New York Botanical Garden, and was a botanist known for her study of mosses and preservation of wildflowers.
Conkling, Grace Hazard
Poet Grace Hazard Conkling (1878-1958) was a native of New York. She later taught at Smith College (her alma mater) in Massachusetts.
Gibson, Althea
Tennis great Althea Gibson began her life and career in Harlem.
Goldman, Emma
Emma Goldman, born in Russia (Lithuania now), became active in New York City anarchist and radical circles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Goldring, Winifred
Paleontologist and geologist Winifred Goldring developed her interest in fossils while a child in Albany, New York. She later worked with the New York State Museum in Albany, and in 1939 was appointed official state paleontologist.
Hurston, Zora Neale
Born in Alabama, raised in Florida, educated in D.C., Hurston came to New York Cityin 1925 where she joined with others in the movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance. She studied at Barnard with Franz Boaz, Ruth Benedict and Gladys Reichard.
Jenkins, Lydia Ann Moulton
She may have been the first woman in the United States ordained as a minister, though the confirming records have been lost. She became a physician who practiced in Binghamton, New York, with her husband.
Johnson, Helen Kendrick
A writer from the Rochester area of New York, Helen Johnson became one of the nation's best-known anti-suffrage writers and campaigners.
Mead, Margaret
Biography of Margaret Mead, anthropologist and writer, whose work more recently has come under question.
Miller, Alice Duer
Native of New York and, for the New York Tribune, wrote the column "Are Women People?"
Nichols, Ruth
New Yorker Ruth Nichols was an early woman aviator, breaking major women's records in the 1930s through the 1950s, and founding the Relief Wings, a civilian air ambulance service that became part of the Civil Air Patrol at the outbreak of World War II.
Roosevelt, Eleanor: Her Early Marriage
Many of the photos in this photo essay were taken in New York (Hyde Park and New York City), where Franklin and Eleanor lived and where Franklin's family lived.
Severance, Caroline
Women's rights advocate who was born in New York, attended early Woman's Rights conventions, and helped found the American Woman Suffrage Association. She moved to California, where she became the first woman in the state to register to vote, in 1920.
Truth, Sojourner
Born a slave in New York, Sojourner Truth became one of the 19th century's best-known anti-slavery activists, working also for women's rights.
Woman and Tennis in the United States
Mary Ewing Outerbridge brought the game of lawn tennis from Bermuda to Staten Island. It spread from there throughout the United States.
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Many women were involved in the Harlem Renaissance; here's a list of the more well-known participants.
Younger, Maud
Native of California, Maud Younger came to New York to work in a settlement house and stayed five years, becoming involved as a trade union advocate and suffragist.
Folsom, Mariana Thompson (1845-1910)
Universalist minister and activist, born in Pennsylvania, lived in Iowa, studied in New York, and active in the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She helped establish the Texas Equal Rights Association.
National Women's Hall of Fame
Located in Seneca Falls, New York, location of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention. Includes news of the organization and museum plus short biographies of women included in the Hall of Fame.
Places Where Women Made History
Want to take a vacation to see where women's history was made? The US National Park Service put together this list of 74 destinations in New York and Massachusetts.
One Man, One Vote; One Woman, One Throat
"Women in New York City Politics, 1890-1910." Article by Jo Freeman, 2001, on the role of women politicians, especially in the Republican party, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Prostitute Who Read Sir Walter Scott
The life and death of Helen Jewett in 1836 New York, in a book review and the first chapter of the book by Patricia Cline Cohen.
Margaret Sanger Clinic
Visit the New York City site of Sanger's birth control clinic, a landmark travel destination if you're interested in women's history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
Part of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in upstate New York. Information on hours and guided tours.
Villa Lewaro
Home of Madam C. J. Walker, Villa Lewaro was built in the Italian Renaissance palace style, designed by Vertner Tandy, New York's first licensed black architect. Page includes information on Walker, and is illustrated.