FEBRUARY 9: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Alice Walker

Alice Walker, a Pulitzer Prize winning author for her novel The Color Purple, was born today in 1944. Set in the early 1900s, the novel explores the female African-American experience through the life and struggles of its narrator, Celie. 

Laura Clay was born today in 1849. She was the co-founder and first president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and was one of the most important suffragists in the South, favoring the state’s rights approach to suffrage. In 1920 at the Democratic National Convention, she was one of two women to be first to have a name placed into nomination for the presidency at the convention of a major political party.

Deeper Dive

Read more about Alice Walker's life.