According to Franklin, What African American activist said the question was not "How shall I so cramp, stunt, simÂplify, and nullify myself as to make me eligible to the honor of being swallowed up by some little man? But the problem rests with the man as to how he can so develop ... to reach the ideal of a generation of women who demand the noblest, grandest, and best achievement of which he is capable."
1) Anna Julia Cooper
2) Ida B. Wells-Barnett
3) Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
4) Fannie Barrier Williams
