In honor of Women’s History Month, we scoured our city’s past to find dozens of inspiring, badass Philly women to celebrate for our Women’s History Month All-Stars, a series of trading card-style profiles you can read and share online.
Then we asked some amazing badass Philly women of the moment to record each woman’s biography for you, so that you can take their stories with you wherever you go. The result is an awesome compendium of the women who made, and continue to make, Philly the best it can be.
We hear from Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Jane Golden; 76ers Chief Operating Officer Lara Price; restaurateur and environmentalist Judy Wicks; 6abc anchor Tamala Edwards; HipCityVeg founder and CEO Nicole Marquis; and Jeannine Cook, owner of Harriet’s Bookshop in Fishtown and Ida’s Bookshop in Collingswood, NJ.
Listen below, and check back each week for new episodes.
JEANNINE COOK ON …
Nellie Rathbone Bright, teacher, author and poet
Marianne Moore, poet and critic
Clara Ward, legendary gospel singer and songwriter
TAMALA EDWARDS ON …
Pearl Bailey, Tony-winning singer and actress
Carrie Burnham Kilgore, lawyer and activist
Margaretta Hare Morris, entomologist
Lucretia Mott, early feminist and abolitionist
JANE GOLDEN ON …
Charlene Arcila, transgender activist
Mary Ann M’Clintock, feminist and abolitionist
Mary Engle Pennington, chemist and refrigeration pioneer
The Philadelphia Ten, artists and activists
NICOLE MARQUIS ON …
Helen Octavia Dickens, physician and sexual health advocate
Betty Holberton and the ENIAC Six, computer programmers
Joyce Craig Lewis, firefighter
Anandibai Joshi, first Indian-American female doctor
LARA PRICE ON …
Gloria Casarez, LGBTQ advocate and community organizer
Hannah Callowhill Penn, Pennsylvania’s first female governor
Ann Preston, physician and educator
Ora Mae Washington, Philly sports great
JUDY WICKS ON …
Pearl S. Buck, writer and humanitarian
Catherine Littlefield, Philadelphia ballet founder
Elizabeth Willing Powel, socialite and American founding mother
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