Clarina Howard Nichols An abolitionist, a journalist, and a women’s rights advocate in Vermont, Clarina Howard Nichols joined the New England Emigrant Aid Society in 1854. The next year, she moved with her family to the Kansas Territory, where this photograph was taken. Nichols advocated women’s legal rights through lectures and editorials and was the only woman to participate in the Kansas constitutional convention of 1859. Kansas State Historical Society