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Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Bloomer was a suffragist, editor, social activist, and fashion advocate who worked to change women’s clothing.
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Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper helped to outline the fundamental operating principles of computing machines.
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Sarah Hale
Sarah Josepha Hale is best known for creating the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Her influence can also be seen in historic sites and a national holiday still widely celebrated today.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt grew up to become one of the most important and beloved First Ladies, authors, reformers, and female leaders of the 20th century.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements .
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South.
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Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to hold several positions, including Secretary of State.
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Dorothy Height
Dorothy Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Elizabeth Cochrane
Elizabeth Cochrane was one of the most famous journalists in the United States.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Shirley Chisholm
In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to serve in Congress.
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Phillis Wheatley
Despite spending much of her life enslaved, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.
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Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell was the first female astronomer in the United States and the first American scientist to discover a comet.
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Dolores Huerta
Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a suffragist and peace activist who helped secure for American women the right to vote
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