Louisiana Leaders: Notable Women in History
Timeline of Louisiana Women's History
This document, compiled in October 1997 by Rachel Murphree, gives a brief synopsis of women's history in our state. It also provides a good starting point for additional research, and a contact for access to existing research files.
Louisiana Leaders: Notable Women in History Exhibit
In honor of Women's History Month 1996, the LSU Libraries sponsored this exhibit, curated by Rachel Cassel Murphree. The exhibit included pictures, portraits, and biographies of eighteen notable women in our state's history. This site gives the biographies of each woman and the accompanying list of bibliographic references.
Leaders:
- Kate Chopin, 1850-1904, Author
- Henriette DeLille, 1813-1862, Social worker, Educator, Co-Founder of Sisters of the Holy Family
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 1875-1935, Author, Activist, Educator
- Kate and Jean Gordon, 1861-1932, 1865-1932, Suffragists and Social Reformers
- Angela Gregory, 1903-1990, Sculptor and Educator
- Margaret Haughery, 1813-1883, Philanthropist, Businesswoman, and Social Worker
- Clementine Hunter, 1885-1988, Artist
- Sadie Irvine, 1887-1970, Craftswoman and Educator
- Mahalia Jackson, 1911-1972, Gospel Singer, Recording Artist, Entrepreneur/Producer, Businesswoman
- Frances Joseph-Gaudet, 1861-1934, Prison Reform Worker and Educator
- Caroline Merrick, 1825-1908, Suffragist and Temperance Leader
- Eliza Nicholson (Pearl Rivers), 1849-1896, Poet, Newspaper Owner and Editor
- Camille Nickerson, 1888-1982, Collector, Arranger, Composer, Musician, and Educator
- Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, 1832-1915, Suffragist, Temperance Leader, Social Reformer
- Dr. Dolores Spikes, 1936- , First Woman in the United States to Head a University System
- Madam C. J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove), 1867-1919, Businesswoman, Philanthropist and Inventor.
- Sophie Bell Wright, 1886-1912, Educator and Social Reformer
- Acknowledgements
- The Faces of Science web site, created by Mitchell Brown of Princeton University, contains additional information and photographs.
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