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Clara Barton (1821–1912) was an American nurse, suffragist and humanitarian who is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross. I covered her last year but wanted to revisit her story as I traveled to Johnstown, Pennsylvania where she organized a massive flood relief in 1889. The American Red Cross, led by Clara and including 50 volunteers undertook that relief effort after the Johnstown Pennsylvania flood that killed (by one account) 2,209 people. Per my blog last year: Following the outbreak of […]
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Marian Wright Edelman (born: June 6, 1939) is an American activist who, in 1973, founded the Children’s Defense Fund. She was the […]
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Christa McAuliffe ((1948-1986) was an educator and an astronaut. On January 28, 1986 I was standing at the bar in the kitchen […]
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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a documentary photographer. She is a well known photojournalist who was the first permitted to take pictures of […]
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Martha (1894-1991) was a modern dancer and choreographer whose technique changed dance worldwide. Some her accomplishments: Taught dance for over 70 years […]
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Emma Stebbins (1815-1882) was an American sculptor. She is best known for her work “The Angel of the Waters” (1873), also known […]
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Marsha P. Johnson was a transgender woman who was honored with the title “Stonewall instigator”. She was a drag queen and a revolutionary […]
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Isabella MacDuff (1285-1313) was a heroine during the Wars of Scottish Independence. These wars were between England and Scotland in the thirteenth […]
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Claudette Colvin is a civil rights pioneer. On March 2, 1955, she refused to give up her bus seat for a white […]
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Grace D Banker (1892-1960) was a telephone operator during World War 1. She, along with several other women telephone operators, were known as […]
