This section began as a celebration of March and Women’s History Month; it continues as a regular feature because there are so many unrecognized women who have made major contributions to history.
Septima Clark (1898-1987) was an educator and civil rights activist. She established Citizenship Schools that transformed the South by increasing the number of African Americans who could vote. Her acclaim […]
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) grew up in a family who cared deeply about social issues, including the abolition of slavery. Stowe chose to use the power of words to bring to light the injustice of slavery. She wrote: “…the enslaving of the African race is a clear violation of the great law which commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves.”
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Mary Pickersgill (1776-1857) was a well-regarded flagmaker in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1813 she was approached by U.S. military representatives to make an oversized United States flag that would fly over
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Amanda Theodosia Jones (1835-1914) was a multi-talented woman, a prolific inventor, and a frequently published writer. Her inventions were in two very different fields—food preservation and canning, and the use
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In 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey (1886-1983) became the first woman ever to drive from coast-to-coast. Horatio Nelson Jackson (and his dog, Bud), who had made a San Francisco-to-New York drive
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Gertrude Käsebier was an American portrait photographer. She was one of the few professional women in the photography business at the turn of the century. Because Käsebier trained as a
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