National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

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Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee

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Letter from the ED: Taking Time to Absorb Hope

Margaret Sánchez turned off her TV for two days following the National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. She wanted time to “absorb the hope.”    I can’t imagine a higher compliment for the...

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Letter from the ED: Uplifting Women’s Voices

This isn’t the start to the “In Her Words” message I intended to write. This week marks my one year anniversary with the National Women’s Hall of Fame and my first draft began with a reflection from...

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Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened to learn of the passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Korbel Albright. “As a refugee whose family fled first from the Nazis and later from the Communists,...

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