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Women We Should Know, but Most of Us Don't...
a presentation for Women's History Month at El Centro College

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Test Your Herstory I.Q.

Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar Activist
Digital Freedom Network: Aung San Suu Kyi
Free Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi
1991 Nobel Peace Laureate
Women of the Millenium

Emily Greene Balch: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
The Nobel Prize Internet Gallery: Emily Greene Balch
Biography of Emily Greene Balch
Encyclopedia Britannica - Women in American History: Emily Greene Balch

Ann Bancroft: Explorer
National Women's Hall of Fame: Ann Bancroft

Janie Barrett: Social Work Pioneer
Janie Barrett, Social Work Pioneer
Women Builders: Janie Porter Barrett

Mary Ritter Beard: Historian
Reexamining American History

Gertrude Bell: Archaeologist and Iraqi Kingmaker
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell

Antoinette Blackwell: Minister
National Women's Hall of Fame: Antoinette Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.:
Matriculation of Women at Harvard Medical School
19th Century Attitudes Toward Women Physicians
The Elizabeth Blackwell Center
National Women's Hall of Fame: Elizabeth Blackwell

Nellie Bly: Journalist
National Women's Hall of Fame: Nellie Bly

Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa):

Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer
National Women's Hall of Fame: Margaret Bourke-White

Belle Boyd: Confederate Spy
In Camp and Prison
Belle Boyd Biography
Belle Boyd House
Belle Boyd

Louise Arner Boyd: Explorer
About.com: Louise Arner Boyd

Myra Bradwell: Attorney
National Women's Hall of Fame: Myra Bradwell

Bessie Coleman Branch: Pilot
Bessie Coleman: First Licensed Black Woman Pilot in the World
Bessie Coleman Branch Highlights
Bessie Coleman: Early Aviator
It Wouldn't Have Happened Without Her: Bessie Coleman
Encarta Africana - Bessie Coleman
Handbook of Texas Online: Bessie Coleman

Selena Sloan Butler: Educator, humanitarian
Selena Sloan Butler
Biography of Selena Sloan Butler

Mother Frances Cabrini: Saint
Frances Xavier Cabrini
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
Mother Cabrini Shrine
Biography of Mother Cabrini
National Women's Hall of Fame: St. Frances Cabrini

Donaldina Cameron: Missionary
Donaldina Cameron's San Francisco

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Educator, abolitionist, activist
National Women's Museum: Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Blackfamilies.com: Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Contributors to Canadian Life: Mary Shadd Cary

Mary Cassatt: Artist
National Gallery of Art
Web Museum: Mary Cassatt
Artist Profile: Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist
National Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Cassatt

Carrie Chapman Catt: Suffragist
National Women's Hall of Fame: Carrie Chapman Catt

Shirley Chisolm: Politician
Women's History Encyclopedia: Shirley Chisolm
National Women's Hall of Fame: Shirley Chisolm

Kate Chopin: Author
PBS: Kate Chopin
Ahead of Her Times: The Life and Works of Kate Chopin
University of Michigan Reading Room: Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
About Kate Chopin

Eileen Collins: Astronaut
National Women's Hall of Fame: Eileen Collins

Martha Cotera: Raza Unida Activist
Chicano! Biography: Martha Cotera
Handbook of Texas Online - Mexican American Business and Professional Women's Association
Chicana Feminist
Handbook of Texas Online - Raza Unida Party
Handbook of Texas Online - Mexican American Women
Handbook of Texas Online - Women and Politics

Lotta Crabtree: Actress
San Francisco Museum: Lotta Crabtree
Lotta Crabtree: Variety Star
Lotta Crabtree: Fairy Star of the Gold Rush
Lotta Crabtree and Lola Montez

Celia Cruz: Singer
Africana.com: Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz
Salsa Goddess
Honorary Doctor of Music
Hot Salsa: Celia Cruz

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Poet
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz & Selected Works
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Project

Angie Debo: Historian, Activist
Angie Debo Papers
Video: Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo - available DCCCD Media
Articles on Choctaw Life - See "Choctaw Tradition: Raising Children" and "Choctaw Life before Removal" by Angie Debo
Ralph Ellison Award - See 1997

Bernadette Devlin: Irish Civil Rights Activist

Anna Dickinson: Abolitionist
Carte de Visite: Anna Dickinson

Rita Dove: Poet Laureate
Rita Dove
Africana.com: Rita Dove
Faculty Page at Univ. of Virginia
Rita Dove Home Page
Black Collegian: Rita Frances Dove
The Circle Association's Rita Dove Page
HomeArts: Rita Dove
Voices from the Gap: Rita Dove
Rita Dove HomePage
Rita Dove Page
Rita Dove, Playwright
Academy of American Poetry: Rita Dove

Abigail Scott Duniway: Suffragist
Feminist Voice & Vision: Abigail Scott Duniway
Historical Gazette: Abigail Scott Duniway

Mary Dyer: Religious Leader
Mary Dyer: Quaker Martyr
Making a Difference: Mary Dyer
Mary Dyer: A Quaker Martyr for Religious Freedom

Crystal Eastman: Activist
Crystal Eastman
Work Accidents and the Law by Crystal Eastman (1910)
Crystal Eastman: Radical Feminist

Fanny Elssler: Dancer
Fanny Elssler
Fanny Elssler

Frances "Sissy" Farenthold: Politician
Chicano! Biographies: Frances Farenthold

Geraldine Ferraro: Politician
National Women's Hall of Fame: Geraldine Ferraro

Mary Fields: Woman of the West, Ex-Slave
Ex-Slave Mary Fields in Montana
Mary Fields
Stagecoach Mary Fields
Afro-American Almanac: Mary Fields

Abigail Kelley Foster: Abolitionist
Women in American History: Abigail Kelley Foster

Janet Frame: Author
An Angel at My Table - Janet Frame
Janet Frame: Heritage Trails
Janet Frame: The Self as Other/Othering the Self
Janet Frame and the Language of Autobiography
Janet Frame

Hilda Gadea: Revolutionary, Che Guevara's First Wife
The Che Guevara Page

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Philosopher
National Women's Hall of Fame: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Irma Grese: Nazi S.S. Terrorist
Excerpts from the Belsen Trial

Sarah and Angelina Grimke': Abolitionists, Feminists
National Women's Hall of Fame: Sarah and Angelina Grimke'

Janet Guthrie: Race car driver
Guthrie Recalls Racing Indy 500
Indy Not Up to Speed

Sarah Josepha Hale: Writer, Poet, Editor
Woman's Empire Defined - Sonnet
E-Text Library
Godey's Lady's Book and Sarah Josepha Hale
Early American Fiction
Sara Josepha Hale
Mary's Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale
19th Century Women Writers: Sarah Hale

Hatshepsut: Egyptian Queen
Queen Hatshepsut's Temple
Queen Hatshepsut
The Queen Who Would Be King
The Great Queen Hatshepsut

Oveta Culp Hobby: Women's Army Director, Cabinet Member
The Little Colonel: Oveta Culp Hobby
National Women's Hall of Fame: Oveta Culp Hobby
Houston Who's Who: Oveta Culp Hobby
Social Security Administration: Oveta Culp Hobby
Oveta Culp Hobby

Dolores Huerta: Activist, Labor Organizer
Chicano! Biographies: Dolores Huerta
National Women's Museum: Dolores Huerta
Woman of the Year: Dolores Huerta
UFW's Grand Lady of Steel: Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta Biography

Anne Hutchinson: Religious Leader
National Women's Hall of Fame: Anne Hutchinson

May Irwin: Singer
May Irwin
Virtual Gramophone: May Irwin

Helen Hunt Jackson: American Indian Rights Activist, Author, Poet
Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson on the Web
Poets' Corner: Helen Hunt Jackson
Selected Poetry of Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson
Sonnets.org: Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson Biography
Glass Ceiling Biographies: Helen Hunt Jackson

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Poet
Georgia Douglas Johnson Poems

Margaret Jones: Accused Witch
Margaret Jones
1648

Mary "Mother" Harris Jones: Labor Activist
National Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Harris Jones

Sarah Kemble Knight: Colonial Writer
Sarah Kemble Knight
From the Private Journal

Umm Kultoum: Egyptian Singer
The Diva of Arabic Song
Listening to Umm Kultoum

Susette La Flesche: Indian Rights Activist, Writer
National Women's Hall of Fame: Susette La Flesche

Lena Levine: Birth Control Pioneer
Lena Levine

Maya Lin: Architect, Memorial Designer
Maya Lin
Women to Watch: Maya Lin
Architect Maya Lin
Maya Lin
Maya Lin: Monumental Artist

Belva Lockwood: Presidential Candidate, Feminist
Belva Lockwood: For Peace, Justice, and President
Belva Ann Lockwood Collection
National Women's Museum: Belva Lockwood
Pioneer Profiles: Belva Lockwood

Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary messanger
Sybil Ludington
The Other Paul Revere

Mary Lyon: Educator
National Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Lyon

Mary Mahoney: Nurse
National Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Mahoney

Mary Mallon: "Typhoid Mary"
Grave of Mary Mallon
Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
Dinner with Typhoid Mary

Wilma Mankiller: Cherokee Chief
National Women's Museum: Wilma Mankiller
Chief Wilma Mankiller
Gifts of Speech from Sweet Briar College: "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation" by Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Mankiller

Mary McDowell: Labor Activist
Mary E. McDowell: Angel of the Stockyards

Luisa Moreno: Labor Activist
Chicana Activists
A Reminder of Mexican Heroism

Lucretia Mott: Antislavery and Woman's Rights Advocate
Women's Hall of Fame
About Lucretia Coffin Mott
Notable Women: Lucretia Mott
Lucidcafe: Lucretia Mott

Judith Sargent Murray: Writer, Feminist
Judith Sargent Murray
Judith Sargent Murray Society
Judith Sargent Murray
The Virtuous Republic

Antonia Novello: Surgeon General
National Women's Hall of Fame: Antonia Novello

Clara Noyes: Nurse
Clara Noyes

Leonora O'Reilly: Labor Organizer, Civil Rights Activist
Leonora O'Reilly
Women in the Workplace: Labor Unions
How the NAACP Began

Vijaya Pandit: Feminist, Politician
Quotes by Vijaya Pandit
India and the Struggle Against Apartheid

Frances Perkins: Cabinet Member, Reformer
Frances Perkins: Pioneer of Social Security
Labor Reformers
Frances Perkins
Portraits: Frances Perkins
Speech by Frances Perkins (1960)
Radio Speech by Frances Perkins (1935)
National Women's Hall of Fame: Frances Perkins

Annie Smith Peck: Adventurer, Archaeologist
A Woman Before Her Time: Annie Smith Peck

Esther Peterson: Labor Activist
National Women's Hall of Fame: Esther Peterson

Pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read
Women Pirates
Anne Bonny
Mary Read

Mary Ellen Pleasant: The Mother of Civil Rights
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Mary Ellen Pleasant

Lucy Terry Prince: Poet
Africans in America
Pioneer Profiles

Alice Ramsey: Automobile Adventurer
Early Adventures with the Automobile
Woman Motorist

Jeanette Rankin: Politician
National Women's Hall of Fame: Jeanette Rankin

Sarah Parker Remond: Abolitionist
Sarah Parker Remond

Ernestine Louise Rose: Woman's Rights Activist
Ernestine Louise Rose
An Address on Women's Rights by Ernestine L. Rose (1851)
Jewish Heroes and Heroines: Ernestine Rose
Women in American History: Ernestine Rose
National Women's Hall of Fame: Ernestine Rose

Edith Sampson: Judge, U.N. Delegate
Edith Sampson

Rose Schneiderman: Labor Activist
Do You Remember? Triange Shirtwaist Fire

Elizabeth Ann Seton: Saint
National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Seton
National Women's Hall of Fame: Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Seton Heritage Pages
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Patron Saints Index: Elizabeth Seton
Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Manuela Solis Sager: Labor Activist
Chicana Activists

Mabel Keaton Staupers: Nurse
Nurses Hall of Fame: Mabel Keaton Staupers

Bertha von Suttner: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Baroness Bertah Sophie Felecita Von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner

Maria Tallchief: Ballet Dancer
National Women's Hall of Fame: Maria Tallchief
Kennedy Center: Maria Tallchief

Emma Tenayuca: Labor Activist
Chicana Activists

Mary Church Terrell: Activist
Progress of a People: Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell House
Women Writers of Color: Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell
Gifts of Speech from Sweet Briar College: "The Progress of Colored Women" by Mary Church Terrell

Adah Belle Samuel Thoms: Nurse and Activist
American Nurses Association Hall of Fame: Adah Thoms
The History of African-Americans in White

Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Nurse
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker: Surgeon, Spy, Suffragette
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker Links

Miriam Van Waters: Reformer
The Miriam Van Waters Story

Ella Watson: "Cattle Kate"
Carbon County Outlaws: Cattle Kate

Sarah Winnemucca (Tocmetome): Paiute interpretor, peacemaker
Sarah Winnemucca
National Women's Hall of Fame: Sarah Winnemucca
Powersource: Sarah Winnemucca
Woman Spirit: Sarah Winnemucca

Victoria Woodhull: Feminist, Presidential Candidate
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull: Feminist and Spiritual Firebrand
Victoria Claflin Woodhull: Suffragist
Victoria Woodhull: Unorthodox Feminist and Radical

Fanny Wright: Abolitionist, Feminist
National Women's Hall of Fame: Fanny Wright

Chien-Shiung Wu: Physicist
National Women's Museum: Chien-Shiung Wu
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu

Babe Didrickson Zaharis: Athlete
Babe Didrickson Zaharis


Other Heroines - Miscellaneous Links
Women in History - A List
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Remember Your Herstory: African-American Women
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the U.S.
75 Suffragists
Chicana - Latina Archives
Black History Links
Six Women
Female Frontiers
Women of Achievement
History of Women in Sports Timeline
Women of Virginia
Hispanic Women of the West
Chicanas Chingonas
Latinas of Influence
Xicanas
American Women Writers, 1890-1939
Five Outstanding Nurses
Women Explorers
First Wave of Feminism
Famous Female Activists and Artists
Reformers, Missionaries, and Do-Gooders
Celebration of Women Writers, 1701-1800
Who's Who Among South Asian Women
Amazing Women in War and Peace
Women of the Millenium
National Museum of Women's History
Women of the 20th Century
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
American Women's History - A Research Guide
Women Writers
Notable Northern Women
Women of Achievement
Women in Science
National Women's Hall of Fame

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