Influential Women

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Influential Women

• "History is no longer just a chronicle of kings
  and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but
  of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold
  tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women
  have a history.
• Aparna Basu- Professor of History at the
  University of Delhi, India.

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Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

• She was a suffragette activist, who fought for
  women to have the right to vote.
• She was arrested for trying to vote in 1872.
• She was the first real woman to have her image
  placed on circulating currency (dollar -coin).

By Sarah James Eddy (1901)
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Helen Keller (1880-1968)

• First deaf-mute to earn a college degree from
  Radcliffe College.
• She fought for women to have the right to vote.
• She traveled to 39 countries to promote
  disability rights.

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Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

• She was first to fly solo across the Atlantic
  Ocean.
• Amelia was the first female, and one of only a
  few to date, to receive the Air Force
  Distinguished Flying Cross.
• She disappeared as she tried to fly around the
  world in 1937. The government spent 4 million
  dollars looking for her.

By Chuck Hamrick
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Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)

• In 1889, she became the first female doctor in
  the United States.
• She organized the National Health Society.
• She pushed for women to attend college and become
  doctors.

Painted by Joseph Stanley Kozlowski
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

• She was the first lady of the United States and
  was the eyes and ears for Pres. Franklin
  Roosevelt.
• The UN delegates elected Roosevelt chairman of
  the UN's Human Rights Commission.
• She helped author the Universal Declaration of
  Human Rights, which fought for human rights
  around the world.

Douglas Chandor, 1949
Source Encyclopedia. COM
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Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)

•  Harriet was a free woman in 1849.
• She was known as Moses in the underground
  railroad.
• Harriet , who was a spy, scout and a nurse in the
  Civil War, was the first woman in the United
  States to plan and to lead a gun raid.

William H. Johnson, 1945
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Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930)Mother Jones

• She was a labor activist who fought for safe
  working conditions.
• She fought for miners rights.
• She was a founder of the Social Democratic Party
  in 1898 and helped establish the Industrial
  Workers of the World in 1905.

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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)

• She was former slave and abolitionist who fought
  to end slavery.
• Her speeches reminded the public how horrible and
  how unjust slavery was.
• Her famous speech was "Ain't I a Woman?"

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Dolores Huerta (1930)

• She is a labor activist who helped organize the
  United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.
• She fought for legislation to allow individuals
  to vote and to take the drivers test in Spanish.

Image by Barbara Carrasco 
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Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)

• She was Prime Minister of India.
• In 1967, she was one of the first women to lead
  a democracy.
• She strived to improve and to modernize India.

Painted by S. Roerich,1987