Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Maggie Kuhn: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Margaret E. Kuhn
Born August 3, 1905 • Buffalo • New York
Died April 22, 1995 (aged 89) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Subjects Of Study nursing home
Role In women’s rights movement
Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
American social reformer
Height, Dorothy
Dorothy Height
American activist
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale
American activist
Barbara Harris
Barbara Harris
American bishop
Byllye Avery accepting Lifetime Television's 2002 Trailblazer Award, at Lifetime's first annual achievement awards ceremony, celebrating women who made a positive impact on the world.
Byllye Avery
American health-care activist
bell hooks
bell hooks
American scholar
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator
Walter White, 1942
Walter White
American civil rights activist
Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts Harris
American public official
default image
Barbara Christian
Caribbean-American educator and critic
default image
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist
Portrait of former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter wearing a blue blazer and patterned scarf, smiling slightly against a dark background.
Rosalynn Carter
American first lady
Nancy Reagan smiling, wearing a red blouse with a bow, in front of a softly focused arched window background.
Nancy Reagan
American first lady
Pat Nixon
Pat Nixon
American first lady
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
American social reformer
default image
Catharine A. MacKinnon
American feminist and law professor
default image
Mirra Komarovsky
Russian-born sociologist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
American feminist, lecturer, writer, and publisher Charlotte Perkins Gilman, c. 1900
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American author and social reformer