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Saint Térèse of Lisieux
Térèse of Lisieux, canonized in 1925, honored for her Carmelite spirituality, writings and organizational skills. |
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Rosa Parks (1913 - )
The "mother of the civil rights movement" simply refused to give up her seat at the front of the bus. |
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Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910)
Suffragist and author of Battle Hymn of the Republic.Battle Hymn of the Republic
by Julia Ward Howe
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of
steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never
call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on. |
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Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
The women's movement's most powerful organizer whose lifetime of dedication paved the way for women's right to vote. Official Web site. (Summary by the National Women's History Project). |
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
An illness at 19 months left her deaf, blind and mute, yet she is now a known author and lecturer. She is also known for her socialist ideals. |
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Pres. Corazon Aquino
First woman president of the Philippines. |
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Toni Morrison (1931- )
A Nobel Laureate for Literature and the most successful and celebrated writer in America (National Women's History Project). |
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Amelia Earhart. (1897 - 1937)
The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. Official Web site |
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Sacagawea, Shoshone guide and translator to the Lewis and Clark expedition; helped open up the American wilderness. |
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Trung sisters. Vietnamese sisters who led the war to free Vietnam from China. |
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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
Trailblazing anthropologist whose book, Coming of Age in Samoa, caused scientific and social rethinking of adolescence. |
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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
Artist and perhaps the best-known American woman painter. |
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862 - 1931)
Black leader, anti-lynching crusader, journalist, lecturer and community; organizer who fought social injustice all her life. |
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Nellie Bly (1864 - 1922)
Trail-blazing journalist considered to be the "best reporter in America" who pioneered investigative journalism. |
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Margaret Thatcher. First woman prime minister of Great Britain |
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