Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw, (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leading United States civil rights leader, and the first female Methodist minister in the United States.

She was a confidant of Susan B. Anthony in the woman's suffrage movement, leading the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915. She was also active in the temperance movement, heading the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union for a few years. During World War I, she was head of the Women's Committee of the United States Council of National Defense, for which she became the first woman to earn the Distinguished Service Medal.

In 2000, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

References

• Pellauer, Mary D. Toward a Traditon of Feminist Theology: the religious social thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Anna Howard Shaw. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1991.