EmpoweringWomen

Zelda Fitzgerald

If you were one of the many students whose required high school reading assignments included "The Great Gatsby," then you may or may not know that many of the words that were thought to be F Scott Fitzgerald's may have actually been written by his wife, Zelda

A writer herself, Zelda Fitzgerald is said to have been a very large inspiration for her husband's work Outspoken and ahead of her time, he described her as "the first American Flapper."

Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells was a brilliant journalist and social activist whose articles and political essays lead to her becoming part owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper in 1892. She went on to form the National Association of Colored Women before later co-founding the NAACP

Adrienne Rich

Author and activist Adrienne Rich was a poet and radical feminist best known for bringing the "oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse " She won countless honors for her work, and was one of the mostread poets of the 20th century One of her most famous essays, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," was a major influencer of the radical feminist movement of the 1980s