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Walt Whiman is born in Long Island, New York (his home, as it looks today, is pictured at far right page 301)
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Napoleon of the women's suffrage movement, mother of the 19th Amendment, abolitionist.
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Emily Dickinson is born Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Seamstress, servant, teacher, Civil War nurse, and finally, author and novelist
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Dickinson spends a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
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As a young woman, Jane Addams did not know what she wanted to do with her life. Born September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois, Addams grew up in an era when women were expected to marry and raise children. Addams knew she wanted to do something different.
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First African American to sing leading role with Metropolitan Opera, delegate to U.N.
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African-American international star, civil rights activist, World War II heroine
