Notable Women

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Notable Women

• Presented by
• Mr. Alipertis Class

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Sarah WinnemuccaWriter, Lecturer, Teacher

• She was a teacher.
• From 1866 to 1875 Sarah served as an interpreter.

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Toni Morrisonauthor

• She won a national book award.
• She won a literary art imagination award.

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Lillian Gilbrethengineer

• She had 12 children.
• a movie was made about them.

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Jeannette Rankin pacifist

• She was active in
• social work.
• She campaigned for woman suffrage.
• She is a republican.

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Beverly Cleary

• She published, Henry Huggins.
• She over 30 books.

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Dorothy ParkerWriter

• Fact 1 She wrote lots of poetry.
• Fact 2 Her best book is Big Blond.

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Marie Tallcheif

• She was an American ballerina from Fairfax, Okla.
• Tallcheif is of Osage descent and was trained
  both as an American ballerina in Paris and as a
  dancer.

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Mary Quant fashion designer

• She is credited with creating the mod look of the
  1960s.
• In 1966, Quant was awarded the order of the
  British Empire.

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Lucille Ball actress and producer

• She scored a spectacular success with the comedy
  I Love Lucy.
• For six seasons she was the most popular female
  star of the small screen.

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Bessie Smithsinger

• In 1910 she became the earliest blues singer.
• After all she traveled she went to to Live New
  York.

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Valentina Tereshkovacosmonaut

• Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to visit
  outer space.
• Before Valentina was a cosmonaut she was an sky
  diver.
• Valentina was also a cosmonaut.

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Katherine Anne PorterAuthor

• Her first long novel, Ship Of Fools was published
  in 1962.
• She is an American author.

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Edith Head director

• Head began as an assistant costume designer in
  the Hollywood.
• Head worked with Alfred Hitchcook.

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J.K. RowlingAuthor

• She wrote a book at 5 or 6 years old.
• She was the first person ever to become a
  billionaire from writing books.

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Judy BlumeAuthor

• She wrote books. One of the books is Freckle
  Juice.
• She was born two days before valentines day.

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Maya AngelouWriter, Poet

• She has published several volumes of poetry.
• She spent several years in Ghana as editor of the
  African Review.

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Mary Shellyauthor

• A novel she wrote is The Last Man.
• From 1839-1840 she edited her husbands work.

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Rosa ParksAmerican Civil Rights

• She was arrested on December 1, 1995.
• She has an auto biography by David Brinkley .

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Julia Child author

• She was a American cooking teacher.
• She was born on 8/15/1912.

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Jane Addams American social worker

• She went to Rockford college.
• She founded Hull House in Chicago

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Mary Lyon American Educator

• She is the founder of Mt. Holyoke College.

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Sally Ride Astronaut

• She joined NASA in 1978
• She was the first America women in space

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Clara Barton Humanitarian

• She started the Red Cross
• She helped the soldier that were in Civil War.

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Anthony Susan Reformer

• She was a teacher in NYC.
• She got arrest because she didnt pay a fine.

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Eleanor Roosevelt humanitarian

• Eleanor was Theodore Roosevelts niece.
• She had five children.

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Helen Keller author and lecturer

• Helen was blind and deaf.
• Anne Sullivan was Helens teacher.

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Amelia Earhart

• She was the first women to cross the Atlantic by
  airplane.
• Her birthday is on July 24.

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Wilma Rudolphtrack star

• Wilma Rudolph made an historic run in the Rome
  Olympics in 1960 and showed everyone what it is
  like to be an Olympian.
• She was recruited to track at Tennessee State

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Rachel Carson

• She was an American writer.
• She was a Marine biologist.

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Frances PerkinsU.S. Secretary of the Treasury

• She worked at Hull House as an executive
  secretary.
• Franklin .D. Roosevelt named her industrial
  commissioner.

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Maya LinArtist

• She graduated at Yale University
• She was born on October ,5 1959

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Margaret Chase SmithSenator

• About 1910 Smith became protegee.
• After working and traveling she went to New York
  City.

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Coco ChanelDesigner

• She was a fashion designer.
• She opened a hat shop.

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Harriet Beecher StoweAuthor

• She moved to a city with her dad. She wrote a
  book about slavery.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• She was a American reformer.
• She was born 1815 and died 1902.

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Marry Kay Ash

• Born 1915 -2001
• She was born some where in Hot Well Texas

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Anne SullivanTeacher

• Anne Sullivan and her former student helped
  publicize the American Foundation for the Blind
  in 1921.
• She based her instruction on a system of touch
  teaching.

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Elizabeth DoleSenator

• She was a senator from North Carolina.
• Elizabeth dole was the head of the American Red
  Cross from 1999 to 2000.

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Joyce ChenChef

• In Cambridge, Massachusetts ,1958, Chen opened a
  restaurant .
• She made Mandarin Chinese food popular in the
  United States.