My Colorado contribution features women who advocated for women’s rights, as well as human rights for over 100 years, most of whose names you have never heard.

The women are in oval frames as cameos. They women are Native Americans, African Americans, Christians, and Jews, immigrants. Cameos are glamorous, plain, beautiful, wealthy, poor, famous and unknown. They are writers, suffragists, a First Lady, physicians, politicians, and homemakers. All are advocates for women.

The blue line represents the Rocky Mountains that stay constant, while women’s rights move forward.

WOMEN FEATURED 

Cameos of advocates for Women’s right in order of birthdate.

Clara Brown 1800 - 1880  Freed slave was the first African American woman to come to Colorado. She created her own successful laundry business for gold rushers.
Owl Woman 1828 - 1847 Cheyenne Princess who negotiated between Native Tribes and Settlers.
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830-1885 Advocated for Native Americans’s rights in her writing and poetry.
Caroline Nichols Churchill 1833- 1926 Feminist writer
Eliza Routt 1839 - 1907  Suffragist and Colorado’s first First Lady
Chipeta 1843-1924  Used diplomacy to negotiate on behalf of Native Peoples with Male settlers.   Represented the Utes as a delegate to Lobby the US Congress
Frances Wisebart Jacobs 1843 - 1892 Teacher and Founder of United Way
Sarah Platt-Decker 1855-1912 Suffragette
Emily Griffith 1868-1947  Teacher and founder of the Opportunity School for “All Those Who Wish to Learn”
Susan Anderson 1870 - 1960 Frontier Physician
Justina Ford 1871-1952 First African American Physician in Denver
Florence R. Sabin 1871-1953  Medical Scientist who advocated for women in the sciences
Helen Ring Robinson 1878-1923  Advocated for ERA Elected to CO Senate in 1913
Caroline Spencer 1893 - 1978 Physician and Suffragist
Hattie Mcdaniel 1895 - 1952  First African American to win an Academy award
Golda Meir 1898 -  Prime Minister of Israel
Lena Lovato Archuleta 1920 - 2011  First Latina principal in Denver Public Schools
Peggy McIntosh b. 1934  Feminist and anti-racism activist,
Antonia Brico - 1902 - 1989 Conductor and Pianist
Madeleine Albright b 1937 US Secretary of State
Author of Male Privilege and White Privilege
Pat Schroeder b 1940  First woman elected to the US House of Representatives from Colorado