National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee

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Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

The Hall, in association with the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, was delighted to host a Conversation with Great Women in Sacramento, California. The Conversation featured...

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News & Events

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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Inductee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Published in New York Times

In the spirit of the Hall’s Oral History Project is an essay adapted from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (inducted 2002) forthcoming memoir “My own words.” Her essay offers good reminder of how telling women’s history is American history and how histories, as we honor...

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