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Eleanor Roosevelt

November 30, 2009

Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady of the United States from 1933-45, during the four presidential terms of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt was both her birth name and her married name; she was the niece of former president Teddy Roosevelt, and was a distant cousin to her husband Franklin, whom she married in 1905. [...]

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Marjorie Main

November 30, 2009

Born Mary Tomlinson in Indiana in 1890, Marjorie Main’s father was a minister who did not approve of dramatics as a form of entertainment. She briefly attended college in Indiana but left to attend drama school. Upon graduation, she taught dramatics for a year but eventually went into vaudeville in the 1910s. When she married [...]

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Martha Jane Cannary Burke “Calamity Jane”

November 30, 2009

Martha Jane set herself apart from other women in that she could work and socialize with hard and tough frontiersmen: from digging for gold, drinking in bars, cussing and dressing like a man, and was mostly accepted by them. “famous woman scout of the Wild West”  At the Palace Museum, Jane was billed as the [...]

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Susan B. Anthony

November 30, 2009

Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan B. Anthony was a nearly 70-year veteran in the fight for women’s rights.
She began organizing for equal pay as a teenage schoolteacher and in the 1850s became a national leader for woman suffrage. She lectured widely in the United States and Europe and wrote a three-volume history of the suffrage [...]

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Patricia “Patty” Berg

November 30, 2009

Patricia Jane Berg (February 13, 1918 – September 10, 2006)[1] was a founding member and then leading player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Her fifteen major title wins remains the all-time record for most major wins by a female golfer.
She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and [...]

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Rachel Louise Carson

November 30, 2009

American writer and marine biologist, born Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her Silent Spring (1962) – a provocative study of the dangers of certain insecticides – is acknowledged as the impetus for the modern environmental movement.

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Margaret Mead

November 30, 2009

American anthropologist grad. Barnard, 1923, Ph.D. Columbia, 1929. She stressed the need for anthropologists to understand the perspective of women and children.
In 1926, she became assistant curator, in 1942 associate curator, and from 1964 to 1969 she was curator of ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. After 1954 she served [...]

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Mary McLeod Bethune

November 30, 2009

A firm believer in education as a path to racial equality, Bethune focused on vocational education and social activism and became a worldwide public figure.
The founder of the National Council for Negro Women
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and school founder who served as an unofficial advisor on African-American issues to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt [...]

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Barbara Charline Jordan

November 30, 2009

Barbara received a B.A. in political science and history from Texas Southern University in 1956 and earned a law degree from Boston University in 1959. Elected to the Texas state Senate, in 1966, and the U.S. House of Representatives. A tireless supporter of civil rights legislation, Jordan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
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Jane Addams

November 30, 2009

She is remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement. She and her friend Ellen Starr founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago in 1889.
Jane is portrayed as the selfless giver of ministrations to the poor, but few [...]

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