Notable Women Research

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Notable Women Research

• By Mrs. Kuronyas Third Grade

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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

• Pearl Buck won the 1938 Noble Prize.
• In 1949 she founded the Welcome House, for
  Asian women, and soldiers

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Annie Oakley

• She was in a wild west show.
• She shot a raffle when she was a kid.
• She won a contest against Frank Buttler.
• She was paralyzed in a rail road accident.

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Katharine Graham

• Katharine became a publishing executive.
• Katharine headed to Washington post from 1933
  until 1963.

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Isabella Lusy BishopTraveler and Writer

• She wrote the book English Woman in America.
• Isabella founded some hospitals in China and
  Korea.
• She was the first Female member of the Royal
  Geographical Society .

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Mary Lyon Educator

• She was a principle for 12 years at Mt. Holyok
  College.
• Mary attended a few academies in Massachusetts.

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Helen HayesActress

• She started acting when she was Nine.
• She has acted a lot of movies and shows.

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Maya Anselouwriter and performer

• She did a song at a night club Harlem
• She write many poetry books

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Valentina tereshkavaastronaut

• First woman in space
• She went in space June 16 1963.

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Liz Claibornefashion businessdesigner executive

• She designed clothes when she was 25 years old
• She stopped working in 1989.

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Margaret Bourke-Whitephoto journalist
Margaret was noted for her Coverage of world war
2. For 14 years she had Parkinson's disease.

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Shirley MuldowneyAuto Racer

• In 1965, she became the first women to race
  dragsters with the N.H.R.A.
• She was known on the race track as Cha-Cha.

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Bloomer Amelia JenksReformer

• She was editor of the Lily.
• Devoted womans rights to temperance.

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Elizabeth Blackwell physician

• Elizabeth was the first woman who lived in the
  United States to get a medical degree.
• Ashe helped to education of the woman doctor.

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Grace Murray Hopper rear admiral scientist

• She went in to the Naval in 1943.
• She work on mask series of computers.

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Mae C. Jemison physician astronaut

• She was the first African American girl to go in
  space September 1992.
• She joined the Peace Corps.

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Nellie BlyJournalist

• She went around the world in 72 days.
• She was a reporter for the New York World
  newspaper.

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Eleanor RooseveltWife of president Roosevelt

• She wrote magazines
• She was assistant director of the office of
  civilian defense in world war 2

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Sally Ride

• Sally join NASA in 1978
• She became Professor of physics

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Evelyn AshfordOlympian

• Evelyn Ashford won 4 gold medals in the 100m
  sprint in 1984.
• Evelyn was in the women's sports hall of fame.

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Sarah WinnemuccaWriter

• Her grandfather was Captian Truckee.
• She opened a school for children.

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Wilma RudolphOlympian

• Wilma was in the Olympics in Rome 1960.
• She won four gold medals.

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Bessie SmithAmerican Writer

• Around 1910 she became protégée Gertrude.
• Critics said she was the best jazz artist.

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Mary McLeod Bethune Educator

• Her parents were former slaves.
• She was an adviser to president Franklin D.
  Roosevelt.

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J.K. RowlingAuthor

• She Is the author of the Harry Potter Series.
• She wrote her first book Rabbit at age 5.

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Florence NightingaleNurse

• She was the founder of modern nursing.
• She was the first woman to get the British Order
  of Merit.

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Betty FriedanSocial reformer and Feminist

• She published The Feminine Mystique.
• She helped found the National Organization for
  Woman (NOW).

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Lucille Ball actress producer

• Lucille was often cast as a spunky side kick
• Lucille was in the comedy I Love lucy.

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Babe Didrikson athlete

• Babe played basketball, baseball, and track.
• She won golf tournaments.

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Janet Guthrie auto racer

• Janet raced jaguars (cars).
• She was the first women to drive in the Indy 500.

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Mary Ashbusiness executive

• She is the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, which
  is one of the largest beauty firms in the USA.
• She sold a child psychology book in the late
  1930s.

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Billie KingTennis Player

• She won 67 tournament titles.
• She was the US Lawn Tennis Champion in 1966-68,
  1972-73, and in 1975.

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Amelia EarheartPilot

• She was the fist woman to cross the Atlantic
  Ocean.
• She was the fist person fly alone from Hawaii to
  California.

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Bella AbzugRepresentative

• She came from New York city.
• She worked at graduate jewish teological
  seminary.

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Annie CannonAstronomer

• Annie was famous for taking

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Amelia Bloomerreformer

• Amelia first published a book in Seneca Falls,
  NY.
• Amelia first wore a skirt and trousers, the outfit

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Helen KellerAuthor

• Helen Keller was blind and deaf.
• In 1887 Helen Keller was put in charge of Anne
  Sullivan, Helens teacher.

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Beverly SillsOpera Singer

• Beverly Sills appeared on opera over 50 times.
• She was a director

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Susan B. Anthony reformer

• She was a teacher at age 17.
• She was president of the National Woman Suffrage
  Association.

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Dorothea Langephotographer

• She worked on a farm from 1933 until 1942.
• she covered the united nations.

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Margaret Meadandhropologist

• She wrote the book Growing Up in New Guinea.
• She worked at a American Museum of Natural
  History.

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Jane AddamsAmerican social worker

• Jane Addams was a American social worker.
• Hull house was a community center for the poor.

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Chen Joycechef

• Chen wrote Chinese cookbooks.
• In the 1970s Chen hosted a cooking show on TV.

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Juliette Gordon Lowfounder of girl scouts

• Juliette got married in 1886.
• When she died there were more than 165,000 girl
  scouts in the U.S.

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Susan ButcherSled dog racer

• She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• She is a 4-time winner of the Iditarod trail race
  (1986-88,90).

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Emma Lazaruspoet,essayist

• Her poem is on the statue of liberty.
• Her sonnet is about the statue of Liberty.

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Elizabeth StantonAfrican reformer

• President of National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
• Founder of National Woman Suffrage Assoc.

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Judy Blumeauthor/writer

• When Judy started writing stories, they were only
  for her children.
• Her book Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing was
  written in 1972.

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Beverly Clearyauthor/writer

• Beverly Cleary wrote Ramona and Beezus Quimby
  series.
• Other interesting books are the mouse and the
  motercycle.

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Clare Boothe playwright, diplomat

• She married Henry Luce in 1935.
• She wrote a play that was based on her marriage
  The Women wich was a sucsess on Broadway.

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Shirley ChisholmNew York Representative

• She went to school in Brooklyn, NY.
• She was elected as a democrat in the ninety-
  eight congress in 1982.

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Julia Howeauthor and social reformer

• Her husbands name is Samuel Howe.
• She wrote the book The Battle Hymm of Republic
  after watching Union troops march into war.

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Clara BartonHumanitarian

• Clara Barton was picked to look for missing
  pioneers . Clara Barton was a teacher.

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Coco Chanel clothes designer

• Coco Chanel started a shop in 1909. A lot of
  people liked her designs.

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Bessie ColmanAviator

• First black American woman to get her plane
  license. Bessie Colman first worked at a barber
  shop.

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Louisa May Alcott American author

• Shes an American author.
• Louisa achieved wide fame and wealth with little
  woman one of the most popular Children's books
  ever written.

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Julia child American cooking teacher

• Helped change American styles of cooking.

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• She directed investigations for the New York
  state factory commission.
• Her appointment was crititsized.