Final Women's History Class Flashcards
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League of Women voters
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- formed during the 1920’s
- NAWSA became the league of Women Voters
- used cross-arty lines
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Women’s Joint Congressional Commitee
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- formed during the 1920’s
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Palmer Raids
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- were attempts bu the US Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists from the US
- the raids and arrests occured in NOV. 1919 and JAN 1920 under the leadership of attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
- more than 500 foreign citizens were deported
- the palmer raids occurred in the larger context of the RED Scare
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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- happened during the RED Scare
- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Venzetti were Italian born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robberry of a shoe factory in Northampton Massachussets in US in 1920
- witness claimed that they were not in town when it happened but they were convicted because they were Italian
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Scopes Trial/ Tennesse v. Scopes
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- formally known as the State of tennesse v. John Thomas Scopes. was a legal case in 1925-in which a substitute high school teacher was accused of violating Tennesse;s Butler act which made it unlawgul to teach human evolution in any state funded school
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Bessie Smith
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- nicknamed The Empress of the Blues Smith
- was the most popular female blues singer off 1920s and 1930s
- often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era along Louis Armstrong
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October 24 and 29, 1929
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- the wall street crash of 1929
- also known as Black Tuesday the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the united states
- the crash led to the beginning of the 10 year Great depression
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Dorothea Lange
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- an influential American documentary photographer a photojournalist best known for her depression era work
- lange’s photos humanized the consequences of the great depression
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US v Package of Japanesse Pessaries
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- ended with outlawing of birth control information
- congress prohibits the importation of obcene material-referring to contraceptives
- Sanger ordered a new type of diaphram (a pessary) from a Japanese physician
- packages were seized and confiscated
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Bonus Army
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- popular name of assemblage of some 43,000 marchers-17,000 WWI veterans
- marchers demanded cash payment redemption of theri service certificates
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Elanor Roosevelt/ New Deal Programs
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- worked by writting newspaper articles, books and giving radio interviews and urged women to do the same
- her newspaper column was MY DAY
- traveled abroad during WWII
- near and fart helping th poor
- federal agencies created under the NEW DEAL almost doubled the members of federal employees
- 1946-1953 delegate to the UNITED NATION GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Molly Dewson
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- head of the women’s division of the democratic national committee in 1932
- served in the social security board 1937-1938
- was in charge og the National Consumers league
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Frances Perkins
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- secretary of labor
- 1st woman named to cabinet post
- only original member of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office his entire presidency
- established unemployment benefits, pensions for the many uncovered elderly american
- helped craft laws against child labor
- established the standard 40 hour work week
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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- founder of the National Association of Colored women
- 1935 established council of Negro Women
- appointed head of the oddice of minoritu affais of the national Youth adminstration
- parents were slaves
- started a private school for African American students in Florida
- Appointed the National advisor to President Franklin. D Roosevelt
- known as the First Lady of Stuggle
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Rose Schneiderman
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- president of the women;s trate union league
- 1933 appointed the board of national recovery administration
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Amelia Earhart
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- 1917 WWI served as a nurse w/ Volunteer Aid Detachment/St. John ambulance Brigade
- June 18-19, 1928- 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic
- May 20-21 1932-1st woman to fly solo across the atlantic
- Aug. 24-25 1932- first woman to fly solo nonstop coast to coast
- Jan. 11, 1935- first person to fly solo across the pacific ocean- oaland, Ca to Hawaii
- May 8, 1935- 1st person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico to denmark NJ
- Taught Elanor Roosevelt to fly an airplane
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Pearl Harbor
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- attack to pearl harbor y Japan
- brought the US into WWII
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WAC’S, WAVES, MCWR, SPARS, WASPS
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- WAC- Women’s Army Corps
- WAVES- Women’s Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
- MCWR- Marine Corps Women’s Reseve
- WASPS- Women Airforce Service Pilots
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National Labor Board General Order #16
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- order passed on Nov. 1942-stating equal work, equal pay for women
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Executive Order 9066
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- Japanese internment camps with 10 camps and 110,000 Japanese
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Operation Overlord
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- code name for the Battle of Normany- allied operation that launched the succesful invation of German Occupied Western Europe during WWII
- operation commenced on June 6, 1944 with the Normandy landings led by General D. Eisenhoward
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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- places where the Atomic bombs were sent during WWI o Japan by US
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Marshal Plan
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- was the American Initiative to aid Europe in whick the US gave economic support to rebuilf reurpean economis after WWII in order to pevent the spreat of Soviet communism
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NATO and the UN
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- April 1949- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- 1st peace military alliance for the US since the American Revolution
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Executive order 9981
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- passes in 1948
- desegration of the US military
- first war we foughtwith desegregated army is the Korean War
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Korean War
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- June 25, 1950- July 27, 1963 was a war between the republic of Korea (south Korea) supported by the United Nations and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea)
- primarly the result of political divisions of korea bu an agreement of the Victorious Allies at the Conclusion of th epacific wat at the end of WWII
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HUAC
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- 1938-House Un-american activities Committe Congressman
- 1962- grilled 14 members of WPS the women made aworking of the males who questioned them
- 1938-HUAC House Un-American Committe
- congressman Martin dies- of Texas launched the 1st investigation
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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- convicted spies
- 1951- arrested as spies convicted of passing atomic secrets of USSt-Ethel brother war at los alamos
- June 19, 1953- executed in the electric chair-1st and last American Civilians to loose their lives for espionage- found in the 1990’s proved Julius was a spy but not Ethel
- 1951- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
- arrested as spies convicted of passing atomic secrets to USSR
- Ethel’s brother worked at Los Alamos
- June 19, 1953 executed in the electric chair
- docs found in 1990s proved Julius was a spy not Ehtel
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
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- 1953 Alfred Kinsey study where:
- 50% of women admitted to pre-marital sex
- 90% to petting (making out)
- 28% to homosexual tendancies
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The Feminine Mystique
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- Betty Friedan
- published in 1963
- millions of women suffocated by limited aspirations forced upon them by all aspectts of the society, husbands, churches, advertising, medical professionals, TV, magazines, and school
- book sold over 3 million copies
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Commision of the Education of Women
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- firned ub 1953- encouraged training and the education of women
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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- May 17, 1954
- case brought by NAACP on behalf of elementary student Linda Brown and others
- unanimous supreme court Decision under Chief Justice Earl Warren overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
- Thurgood Marchall and constancies Baker Motley led the NAACP lawyers
- Marshall later appointed the 1st African American to the supreme court
- Motley became the 1st African American woman to receive a federal judgement
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Little Rock 9
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- Group of students enrolled in Central high School in Little Rock Arkansas
- On Sept. 4, 1957- central high school in Little Rock Arkansas- Governer Dival Foubus called out the national Guard to stop 9 black students from caroling 6 female students including Melba Portillo Beals were threatned with rape- Ike had to send in 1,000 troops from the 101st airborne and nationalize 10,000 Arkansas national guard troops
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Charlayne Hunter Gault
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- intergrated the university of Georgia
- one of two African American Students of enroll in The University of Georgia
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Ella Baker
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- Director of several branch offices for the NAACP became one of the founders of SWCC student nonviolent coordination
- African American civil rights and human activist
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Gloria Steinem
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- journalist
- Miss magazine
- 1st woman editor
- Raised in Ohio, 1952- smith college grad with degree in governmental studies
- traveled to india for a few years
- Began her freelance journalism career, famous undercover article as a playboy bunny
- 1971- co-founded the national womens political caucus- and womens; action alliance
- wrote many books and articles including Outrageous Acts and everyday Rebellion in 1983
- 1993- inducted into the National Women;s Hall of Fame
- 2000- married for the first time at 66 to David Bale who dies 3 years later of cancer
- 2005- intervied for the documentary I Had an Abortion
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LULAC
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- The league of United Latin American Citizens
- created to combat the discrimination faced bu hispanics in the US
- established on Feb. 17, 1929- in Corpus Christi Texas
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Dolores Huerta
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- labr leader and civil rights activists co-founded the Farmworkers association that later became the United Farm Workers (UFW)
- worked with Cesar Chaves side by side
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Civil Rights Act 1964
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- enacted July 2, 1964- landmark piece of Civil rights legislation of the US outlawed discimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origion
- ended unequal application of votor registration requirements and racial regregated schools, at the workplace, and but facilities that served the general public
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Executive Order 11246
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- forbades sex discrimination
- passed in 1967 which forbade sex discrimination by te federal government and federal contractors
- EEOC outlawed segregated ads
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Virginia Johnson
(Masters and Johnson)
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- in 1968 along with William Masters- Human Sexual Response
- 1st researchers to study the philosophy of sexual response
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Angela Davis
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- philosophy professer who went underground in 1970 for months to avoid arrest by the FBI for allegedly siding a black prisoner in a Marin County revolt
- she soent over a year in federal prison before being acquitted of all charges in 1977
- currently a philosophy professer in UC Santa Cruz
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
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- 1970- Boston women’s health collection
- from a short book Women and their bodies
- started as a pamphlet then it became/ transformed into a book because of how popular it was
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Ms. Magazine
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- 1st editor Gloria Stinem
- raised in Ohio, 1952- Smith College and Grad with decree in Governmental studies
- Traveled to India for a few years, began her freelance journalism career, famous undercover article on her experieces as a playboy bunney
- 1971- co-founded the national womens Political Caucus Womens Action Alliance
- wrote many articles and booka including Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions in 1983
- 1993- inducted into the National Women’s Hall Fame
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Shirley Chisholm
(of NY)
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- 1st African woman elected to congress in 1968
- 1972- campainged for the Democratic nomination president
- 1st women and 1st African American to do so
- Represented New York’s 12 Congressional districs for 7 tems
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Roe v Wade
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- (wade was the state of Texas)
- Jan. 22, 1973- supreme court ruled 7-2 in favor of Janet Roe
- all state laws making abortion a crime null and void
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ERA 1972
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- 1st proposed in 1923 by Alice Paul
- reintroduced by feminists in the 1970s
- March 22, 1972- both houses of congress voted overwhelmingly to pass
- 1973- 3o of the needed 36 states had ratified ERA
- right wing of the republican party began to fight ratification mostly white, christian and married women with children pushed for family values
- Phyllis Schafly was against this
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Phylis Schlafly
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- led the party to stop ERA ratification- was a woman
- argued that womne should be home with children while she was out working against ERA
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Sandra Day O’ Conner
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- 1981- 1st woman justice appointed to the supreme Court
- was a conservative
- appointed by President Ronald Reagan
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Madeleine Albright
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- secretary of state during Presidents Bill Clinton’s Presidency in 1992
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Janet Reno
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- attorney General during President Bill Clinton in 1992
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg
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- supreme court justice during President Bill Clinton in 1992
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Susan Faludi
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- is an American humanist, journalist and author
- won the Putlizer prize for Explanatory Journalism
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March for Women’s Lives 2004
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- demostration for reproductive rights and women’s rights held April 25, 2004 on the National Mall in Washington DC
- March organizes estimated that 1.15 millionpeople participated
- declaring in the largest protest in the US
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Nancy Pelosi
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- daughter of former 5 term congressman and 12 year mayor in Baltimore Thomas D’Alessandro Jr
- 1962- grand of Trinity College in DC
- Married Paul Pelosi of SF- 5 kids
- 1987 elected CA 8th district (SF) in the House of Reps
- 2002- elcted speaker of the house
- 3rd in line to the presidency- 1st woman in US history
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Lois Giibbs
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- mother of Super Fund Cleanup
- Born in Nigran Fall NY
- many people worked in Hooker chemicals
- 1978- 2 children fell ill- Michael and Melissa
- along with other people locked in 2 state officials so they could not leave the town beccause the Hooker company was dumping chemicals that were causing them to get sick. After locking in those 2 state officials she called President Carter and told him that they could not let the state officials leave until the town was relocated the succedded
- when she started advocating against Hooker Chemicals her husband told her to stop because he worked for the company so he divorced her
- she moved with her 2 children in Washington to be an activist against the use of chemicals
- she re-married to an activist her children survived and went to college
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Hilary Clinton
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- 1st lady of Arkansas
- listed as one of 100 most influential lawyers
- 1st lady to push for universal health care
- 1st female senator
- pushed for plan B contraceptives
- secretary of state
- Born Oct. 26, 1947- park ridge Illinos
- 1968- Wellestly college-1st ever student to be choosen by classmates to speak at commencement
- 1973- Yale law school-worked for the Yale Law review
- staff attorney for childrens refence fund
- 1 of 2 women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committe working on the Empeachment of president Nixon
- 1965- Married Bill Clinton- 1980- daughter chealse
- appointed by president Carter the boarf of the US legal services corporation federal nonprofit that funded ledal aid to the poor
- twice listed as one of the 100 most influential lawyers
- 1992-2001- 1st lady pushed for universal care act
- 1995-it takes a village
- 1997 helped create the adoption and safe families act
- 2000 eleted 1st female senator form New York
- corresponsor of prevention first act-increased access to family planning info
- 2006- re-elected with 67% vote
- 2007 began campaing for president- winning more primaries and delagates than any women in the US history
- 2009- secretary state
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Beauty Myth
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- Naomi Wolf
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Mildred “Babe” Didrikson
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- played various sports
- basketball
- javelin
- hurdles
- golf
- diving
- baseball
- doxing
- Qualified for 5 events could only compete in 3
- won in all 3
- Gold Gajeline
- Gold 80 m Hurdels
- silver
- 1946-1947- won 17 open tournaments
- won 1954-womens National Open 15 months after cancer surgery
- died of cancer in 1956
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Rachel Carson
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- mother of the conservation movement in the US
began earth day and activism day - founder of the ecology movement in the US
- writer, scientist and ecologist
- Born May 27, 1907- 65 acre farm in pennsylvania
- BA marine biology 1929- MA zoology 1932 John Hopkind University
- Hired by the US Bureu of Fisheries during the depression
- 1936- editor in chief of all publication for the US fish and wildlife services
- Naturalist Writer
- Under the Sea Wind- 1941
- The Sea Around Us- 1952
- The Edge of the Sea- 1955
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Silent Spring-1962
- warned the public against the use of Pesticides
- lead to nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides attacked bu the chemical industry
- lead to the creation of the EPA-Environmental Protection agency
- 1963- testified before congress and called for new policies to protect human health
- 1963- awarded the national Audubon Society Medal
- 1964- died of breast cancer- 56 years old
- June 9, 1980- post humously awasrded Presidential Medal od freedom by President Carer
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Georgia O’Keeffe
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- most famous women artist during the 20th and 21st century
- grew in dairy farm in Wisconsin
- NOv. 15, 1887-March 6, 1986
- 1910 enrolled at the art institute of Chicago
- Enroolled at the art institute in NYC
- mastered imitative realism
- taught art at the columbia college
- 1924- married famous photographer Alfred Stiedlitz(who promoted her work)
- 1926- received $10,000 for painting a mural in Elizabeth Srdenis Beauty Salon
- 1949- moved to new Mexico -lived and painted there until her death
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Title IX
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- included in the education amendments acts
- prohibits gender discrimination in federally funded programs
- woman fought against for title IX inclusions
- since 1972- female participation in college sports has increased by 400-800% in high school sports
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Anita Hill
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- accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment before he was appointed to Supreme Court
- american attorney
- became national figure in 1991 when she accuded US Supreme Court nominne Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment
- her testimony focused national attention on the issue of workplace sexual harassment
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Janet Yellen
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- 1st woman in charge of the federal reserve
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The Undeclared War Against American Woman
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- Susan Faludi
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Lighting the Way
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- Karenna Gore Schiff
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Women Who Run with the Wolves
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- Clarissal Pinkola Astes
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Lasting For Freedom
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- Rebecca Walker(Alice Walkers’ Daughter
