Our Mission
SHE VOTES' mission is to support those who identify as women in becoming registered and responsible young voters. We achieve this through providing online voter education resources, hosting webinars, maintaining a national network of community ambassadors, and conducting voter registration drives. SHE VOTES is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all of our work is nonpartisan.
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The notable women of history featured in the gallery below inspire our mission and the work that we do. Click on each image to learn more!
Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Chisholm famously championed the campaign slogan "unbought and unbossed".
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony was one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in the 1800s. In 1872, Anthony was famously arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and convicted for her "crime" in a public trial.
Ida B. Wells was a prominent investivatige journalist, activist, researcher, and civil rights leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was also one of the founding members of the NAACP. Her many publications and public speaking tours advocated for women's suffrage and shed light on the horrors of lynching and other acts of racism in the US.
Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Chisholm famously championed the campaign slogan "unbought and unbossed".
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