Skip to content
Menu
Our Story
Our Story menu
The Project
Giving Back
About Us
Meet the Women
Meet the Women menu
Red Line
Green Line
Pink Line
Orange Line
Brown Line
Blue Line
Purple Line
Yellow Line
The Loop
Blog
Our Story
FAQs
Contact Us
Takedown Policy
Privacy Policy
Search
Search again
View cart
The Women's L Project Blog
Angie Navedo Rizzo
The Young Lords began as a Puerto Rican street gang in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in the early 1960’s. By the late 1960’s it had evolved into the Young Lords...
Read more
Ella Flagg Young
Ella Flagg Young (1845-1918), born in Buffalo NY, moved with her family to Chicago where at age 15 she took a teacher examination. She passed but was too young to...
Read more
Ertharin Cousin
Although Ertharin Cousin (born 1957) lived on Chicago’s West Side, she was one of the first females to attend Lane Tech High School, a previously all-male school on the North...
Read more
Isabel Wasson
Isabel Wasson (1897-1995) was a geology graduate student when she led a summer tour of national parks in the western US. The superintendent of Yellowstone was so impressed hearing her...
Read more
Edna Stewart
Edna Stewart (1938-2010) opened her namesake restaurant on Chicago’s West Side in 1966. Popular for its great soul food, the restaurant became better known as a meeting spot for political...
Read more
Vivian Maier
Born in New York but raised for the most part in France, Vivian Maier (1926-2009) moved to the affluent north suburbs of Chicago to work as a nanny. On her...
Read more
Mae Jemison
When Mae Jemison (born 1956) was a toddler, her family moved from Alabama to Chicago. Watching NASA space missions during her childhood, Jemison dreamed of becoming an astronaut but since...
Read more
Peggy Terry
In the 1960’s, an estimated 65,000 white migrants from the South lived in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Among them was Peggy Terry (1921-2004), the granddaughter of a Klan member, who became...
Read more
Guadalupe Reyes
Guadalupe Reyes (1918-2000) was the daughter of migrant farmworkers who had emigrated from Mexico to Oklahoma. When she was a young adult, her family moved to Chicago seeking more opportunities....
Read more
Previous
1
…
10
11
12
Next
Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
Press the space key then arrow keys to make a selection.