Description: (American Suffragist and Abolitionist)
Ernestine Louise Rose was a prominent suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker known as the “first Jewish feminist.” Active from the 1830s to the 1870s, she was a contemporary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Rose is considered a major intellectual force in the American women's rights movement, credited with coining the phrase "women's rights are human rights." Her advocacy is linked to her upbringing as a rabbi's daughter, which provided her with advanced education compared to other women of her time. Rose was posthumously honored with induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the establishment of the Ernestine Rose Society to commemorate her pioneering role in feminism.