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National Women’s History Month Recognizing the plurality of voices in American women’s history. 1

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National Women’s History MonthRecognizing the plurality of voices

in American women’s history.

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Phillis Wheatley

Renowned poet -- 1773

(Library of Congress)

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Harriet Tubman

Former slave, and ‘Conductor of

the Underground Railroad’ -- New

York, 1911 (Library of Congress)

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Sojourner Truth

Preacher, abolitionist, and women's

rights advocate (Library of Congress)

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Ida B. WellsJournalist, civil rights

advocate, suffragist –- 1891

(Library of Congress)

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Members of the Women's League Advocates of women’s rights -- Newport, R.I. 1899 (Library of Congress)

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Zora

Neale

HurstonAuthor, folklorist,

and anthropologist

(Library of Congress)

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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939 (Library of Congress)

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African American nurses, commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army

Nurses Corps, working-out during an advanced training course in Australia --

2/1944 (U.S. National Archives)

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Ella

FitzgeraldRenowned Jazz musician

during the Harlem

Renaissance –- New York,

September 1947

(Library of Congress)

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Mary

WollstonecraftEarly feminist; author of A

Vindication of the Rights of Woman

-- 1792 (Library of Congress)

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“Call to the First Women's Rights Convention as it appeared in the Seneca County

Courier, July 14, 1848” (National Park Service)

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Susan B. Anthony

Well-known abolitionist; worked

together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton

to publish a woman's newspaper,

Revolution, and form the National

Woman Suffrage Association (Library

of Congress)

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Lucy Stone

Antislavery and women's rights lecturer; coordinator for the first

national American women's rights

convention; co-editor of the Woman’s

Journal, a women's suffrage

newspaper (Library of Congress)

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Carrie

Chapman CattLeading member of the National

American Woman Suffrage

Association (NAWSA) and key

player in the success of the

suffrage movement (Library of

Congress)

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Alice Paul

Sewing another star on the suffragist flag, around 1919 (Library of Congress)

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Women marching in a national suffrage demonstration -- Washington,

D.C. 5/9/1914 (Library of Congress)

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Prison cell (U. S. National Archives)

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1st women jury -- Los Angeles,

November 1911 (Library of Congress)

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Mary Edwards Walker

First female Army medical officer (Civil War);

suffragist and dress reformer -- 1912 (Library of

Congress)

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Marie Curie

(center)Chemist; two-time Noble Prize winner,

co-discovered the radium element

(Library of Congress)

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Scientists making cultures of parasites -- 1910-1920? (Library of Congress)

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Margaret D.

FosterAmerican chemist -- October

4, 1919 (Library of Congress)

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Amelia EarhartFirst woman to pilot a plane across the

Atlantic Ocean (Library of Congress)

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Willa Beatrice

Brown

Trained pilots for the U.S. Army Air

Forces, the first African American

woman be commissioned as a

lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air

Patrol during the WWII-era (U.S.

National Archives)

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Sally Ride

America's first woman

astronaut -- 06/18/1983 -

06/24/1983 (U.S. National

Archives)

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Soledad Chavez Chacon

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First female secretary of state for New

Mexico, 1922 (National Women’s

History Museum)

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Dolores Del Rio

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Early Mexican American actress

(Library of Congress)

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Carrot pickers -- Edinburg, Texas, February 1939

(Library of Congress)

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Chamisal, New Mexico -- July 1940 (Library of Congress)

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“Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative

Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico” -- January 1942

(Library of Congress)

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Dolores Huerta

Labor activist (National Women’s History Museum)

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Sandra Cisneros

Renowned author of the The House on Mango Street and Caramelo (Library

of Congress)

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Works Cited

National women’s history museum. Retrieved from https://www.nwhm.org.

Notable women’s rights leaders. National Park Service. Retrieved from

http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/notable-womens-rights-

leaders.htm.

Prints & photographs online catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved from

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/.

Women of protest: photographs from the records of the National Woman's

Party. Library of Congress. Retrieved from

http://www.loc.gov/collection/women-of-protest/.

Women’s History. U.S. National Archives. Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/721576262

53040564/.

Women striving forward, 1910s-40s. Library of Congress. Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157614805050

380/.

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