I came across a post on Facebook titled 10 Amazing Women That You Won't Find in History Books and I think this is worth taking a browse through. The only women I recognized was Ida Wells and I learned a lot of interesting facts about female activists, innovators, and scientists around the world. Just as we read about Rosa Parks in Freedom's Daughters, there was a civil rights activist a century earlier named Elizabeth Jennings who refused to give up her seat on a New York City streetcar in 1854! Jennings set an important precedent in challenging segregation and by 1860 most of the streetcar lines in New York City were integrated. If you'd like to read more about her (or others), Jennings is the second women highlighted in this article:
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