In early 1967, Grace Slick's ambulance-siren voice on Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" ignited a psychedelic-rock revolution that put San Francisco on the map. Her uninhibited persona and Mother Nature fashion sense also helped advance the hippie counterculture and, by extension, the free-love and feminist movements.

On May 13, Ms. Slick will be among more than 70 female rockers celebrated by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power" exhibit,...