Notable Women Research

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Notable Women Research

• By Mrs. Buffas Third Grade

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Bella Azbugcongresswoman

• She got elected as a democrat for congress.
• She went to Hunter College.

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Helen HayesActress

• She starred in movies.
• She was 9 years old when she first starred on
  Broadway

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Susan Browell Anthonyreformer

• She led a group of woman to the polls of
  Rochester.
• She traveled throughout the USA and Europe.

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Louisa May AlcottAuthor

• Her first book was Flower Fables.
• She has made many novels

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Annie LeibvitzAmerican photographer

• She started contributing photos to Rolling Stone
  in 1970
• She started photographing for Vanity Fair
  magazine in 1983

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Margaret Bourke WhitePhoto journalist

• Bourke White was noted for her coverage of the
  world war 2
• Her series on the rural South during the
  depression.

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Elizabeth BlackwellPhysician

• She was the first woman in the United States to
  get a medical degree.
• She has a brother named Henry Brown Blackwell.

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Willa CatherNovelist

• When she was nine her family moved to Nebraska.
• She worked as a journalist and as a teacher in
  Pittsburgh.

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Shirley MuldowneyDragster Racer

• Became the first woman to race dragsters with the
  National Hot Rod Association.
• She was known on the race circuit as Shirley
  Cha-Cha Muldowney.

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Nellie Bly

• She went around the world in 80 days.
• She was a reporter in New York and Pittsburg.

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Coco Chanelfashion designer

• She close her shop in 1930.
• Her fashion ranged from Chanel suits to

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Frances Perkinssecretary of labor

• She wrote The Roosevelt 1 Knew
• She was a member of U.S. Civil Service Commission

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Maya Angelouwriter and performer

• She went to Europe and Africa when she was in the
  play Porgy and Bess.
• She also sang at nightclubs.

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Amelia BloomerReformer

• She made weman have rights.
• She made weman be able to wear trousers.

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Judy BlumeWriter

• Judy Blume became writing stores when she was
  young.
• Judy Blumes book Tales of a Forth Grade Nothing
  in 1972.

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Judy BlumeWriter

• Judy Blume became writing stores when she was
  young.
• Judy Blumes book Tales of a Forth Grade Nothing
  in 1972.

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Susan Butcher

• She was the 4 time winner of the Iditarod trail
  race.
• She was born in Cambridge,Mass.

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Dorothea L. Dix Social Reformer

• She visited a jail in East Cambridge.
• She wrote a famous letter.

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Dorthea Lange photographer

• She operated a picture studio during the great
  Depression.
• She took her camera on the San Francisco
• Streets to take pictures.

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J.K. Rowling author.

• She made Harry Potter the hit series.
• All of the series became movies.

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Evelyn Ashford

• She won 4 gold medals in 100 m in 1984, and she
  did 4x100 m n 1984.
• She got in to the woman's sports hall of fame in
  1997.

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Beverly ClearyAuthor

• She writes Ramona books.
• She published her first book in 1950.

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Anne Katherine PorterAuthor

• In 1962 she published her first novel then.
• She won a short-story novelist award.

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Edith Headcostume designer

• She began as an assistant costume designer in
  Hollywood.
• She became the preeminent costume designer in
  Hollywoods golden age.

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Lucie Ballactress

• She was on I Love Lucy.
• She was a glamorous actor.

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Clara Bartonhumanitarian

• She was called the Angel of the Battlefield.
• She was a school teacher.

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Pearl BuckAuthor

• She won a Nobel Prize.
• She lived principally in China.

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Sally K. RideAstronaut

• She was the first American woman in space.
• She designed the robot arm.