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The Women of a Special Triad (Title IX, the AIAW, the WBL)
Students will learn about how a group of trailblazing women in the seventies who changed the landscape for women in education and helped pave the way for acceptance of women in sports.
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Biography
Anne Crawford “Nancy” Allen Holst
The first woman to join the International Association of Fire Chiefs, “Chief Nancy” led Rode Island’s Cedar Hill Volunteer Fire Department beginning in 1931.
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Biography
Dr. Regina Benjamin
Dr. Regina Benjamin is a family physician who served as the 18th US Surgeon General during the Obama Administration, and was the youngest person and first African American admitted to the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees.
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Biography
Gerda Lerner
Gerda Lerner, the “godmother of women’s history,” fled Nazi-occupied Austria and became an accomplished historian and advocate for female scholars.
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