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Women have always played an active role in history. Explore some of the historical pioneers and contemporary newsmakers that continue to impact the world. New biographies are added regularly, so check back to discover new stories!
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt grew up to become one of the most important and beloved First Ladies, authors, reformers, and female leaders of the 20th century.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the senior US Representative from Florida, the first Latina elected to the US Congress, and the first Republican in congress to publicly support the passage of the marriage equality act.
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Betsy Ross
Considered essential to the American Revolution, Betsy Ross is credited with sewing the first United States flag.
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Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph relentlessly pursued her dreams becoming an international track and field star.
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Marla Runyan
Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.
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Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man and joined the Patriot forces during the American Revolution. She was the only woman to earn a military pension for participation in the Revolutionary army.
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Bernice Sandler
Known as the “Godmother of Title IX,” Bernice Sandler fought for women’s rights in education.
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and became an outspoken and life-long advocate for women’s reproductive rights.
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first American to be canonized as a saint.
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Muriel Siebert
Fearless Wall Street broker Muriel Siebert was known as The First Woman of Finance.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements.
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem is an acclaimed journalist, trailblazing feminist, and one of the most visible, passionate leaders and spokeswomen of the women’s rights movement.
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Lucy Stone
A leading suffragist and abolitionist, Lucy Stone dedicated her life to battling inequality on all fronts.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South.
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Julia Hunt Catlin Park Depew Taufflieb
During World War I, Julia Taufflieb turned her home into a hospital for wounded soldiers in France.
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Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple was a child actor with curly hair and later worked as an ambassador for the US government.
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Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell was a well-known African American activist who championed racial equality and women’s suffrage.
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Sojourner Truth
A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the 19th century.
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