Frances Alice Kellor
"How," you will ask yourself after reading this list, "have I never before heard of Frances Kellor?" Raised in poverty by a single mother, among other accomplishments, this transgender lesbian:
- Used basketball to reshape women's gender
- Founded the National Urban League
- Studied imprisoned southern black women for two years to create the view that environmental conditions foster crime
- Went undercover to protect domestic workers' rights
- Held leading roles in two Presidential elections before she could vote
- Got suffrage put on national party platforms for the first two times
- Created and ran an alternative form of government in America
- Led the Americanization movement using progressive activism
- Promoted Service Learning and Adult Education
- Coordinated years of multicultural immigrant parades across America
- Ran America's foreign language media advertising
- Launched the field of international arbitration
- AND CREATED MUCH OF OUR MODERN AMERICAN IDENTITY
