Investigative Reporter When Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, is remembered, it is usually in the context of her round-the-world trip documenting her travels for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
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Lawyer, activist, children’s advocate
Today we know her as the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund. Her list of accomplishments started early; she was the first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar Association.
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First female president elected to head an international labor union Nestor began work in a glove-making factory when she was still in her teens, and by the age of 22
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Native American community activist, tribal chief and tribal legislator Wilma Mankiller served her people as a Cherokee Chief from 1985-95, making her the first woman to lead a major tribe.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Smallest Freedom Fighter”
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