Remember the Ladies
Wednesdays at 10:04, Summer 2026
In honor of our nation's 250th birthday and inspired by Abigail Adams's call in 1776, we "Remember the Ladies" - celebrating Georgia women in history.
Conceived and written by: Margaret Holt, Suzanne Minarcine, Madeline Van Dyck and Marilyn Vickers. Edited and produced by Lara Dua-Swartz.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is one of the first two African-Americans to integrate the University of Georgia in 1961.Although an ideal candidate for admission to UGA, she was initially rejected several times. -
Born near Macon, GA in 1826, Ellen Craft was a slave who famously fled from slavery in 1848. Ellen was very light-skinned, and used this trait to disguise herself as a young, ill white man while her husband William posed as her slave. -
Susie King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. With the help of her grandmother, she was able to access an underground education in a time when teaching African Americans to read and write was illegal. -
Born Coosaponakeesa (coo-sop-oh-na-KEEsah), Mary Musgrove was the daughter of an English father and a Creek Indian mother. Fluent in both English and Muskogee, the Creek language, she became a bridge between two worlds. -
Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. She was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1860. After meeting the founder of the Boy Scouts in 1912, she became committed to the idea of bringing scouting to girls and promoting more egalitarian gender roles. -
Lillian Smith was a writer and social activist who lived most of her adult life in Clayton, Georgia. Born in 1897 into a prosperous white family, she was unafraid to take controversial positions on race and gender equality. -
In 1916, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, representing Montana. At the time she was elected, women in most other states were not able to vote.
