Curated category
American feminists
- Katharine HepburnKatharine Houghton Hepburn was born on the 12th of May 1907 in Hartford Connecticut. Her mother Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn led the Connecticut Woman…
- Stephen ColbertOn the 11th of September 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert stood in the living room of his family home on James Island.
- Brie LarsonBrianne Sidonie Desaulniers was born on the 1st of October 1989, in Sacramento, California. Her parents were homeopathic chiropractors who ran a practice…
- Susan B. AnthonySusan Anthony was born on the 15th of February 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her father Daniel Anthony and mother Lucy Read raised seven children within a…
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was born on the 19th of July 1898 in Berlin. His family belonged to the German upper-middle class and identified as Jewish.
- Frederick DouglassFrederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland.
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- Joan KellyJoan Kelly entered the world on the 29th of March 1928 in Brooklyn. Her father was George V. Kelly and her mother was Ruth Jacobsen.