Important Women in History

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Important Women in History

• Clara Barton
• Rosa Parks
• Harriet Tubman
• Carrie Chapman Catt

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Clara Barton

• During the Civil War, she started a relief
  program. This program took donations and
  distributed them to the soldiers. She nursed the
  sick and wounded soldiers. She also kept in
  contact with the soldiers families.
• She officially founded The American Red Cross in
  1881.

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American Red Cross

• The American Red Cross provides assistance to
  disaster victims.
• The majority of American Red Cross are
  volunteers.
• Some of these disasters include apartment and
  house fires (majority), floods, earthquakes,
  automobile accidents, tornadoes, and explosions.
  They also provide assistance to the military.
• They provide shelter, food, clothing, blood, and
  counseling to help the victims of disasters.
• They also teach swimming, CPR, and other health
  and safety skills.

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Rosa Parks

• Most historians date the beginning of the modern
  civil rights movement in the United States to
  December 1, 1955. That was the day when an
  unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused
  to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
  This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and
  fined for violating a city ordinance, but her
  lonely act of defiance began a movement that
  ended legal segregation in America, and made her
  an inspiration to freedom-loving people
  everywhere.

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Harriet Tubman

• Harriet was unable to read or write but was able
  to help free over 300 slaves from the south using
  the underground railroad.
• Harriet was born into slavery, but felt so
  strongly that it was wrong and wanted to find a
  way for her people to become free.

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Harriet Tubman

• In 1849 Harriet escaped from her plantation and
  arrived in Pennsylvania a free woman.
• After her arrival she started to save her money
  so that she could help other slaves escape the
  south so they could be free.

• She made 19 secret trips with the help of her
  allies to free over 300 people.
• She became known as Moses and there were
  rewards from slave owners for her capture, but
  she was never caught.

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Carrie Chapman Catt

• Carrie graduated from college in 1880, and was
  very determined to help with the womens suffrage
  movement.
• Womens suffrage was the movement that legalized
  voting rights for women.

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Carrie Chapman Catt

• Carrie worked as an organizer for the National
  American Woman Suffrage Association from 1890 to
  1900, when she became its national president.

• On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment
  officially became part of the United States
  Constitution. All women in the United States were
  at last guaranteed the right to vote.