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HELLEN KELLER
Also born in Alabama, Helen Keller suffered from deafness and blindness since she was just nineteen months old. Thanks to the governess Anne Sullivan, Helen learned to communicate using sign language and learning Braille, an education that led her to complete university studies with outstanding performance. From this moment Keller became a historic defender of the rights of workers and people with special abilities. -
GRACE HOPPER
Known as Amazing Grace, Hopper was an American scientist whose work in the field of programming is of utmost importance to the advances of computing as we know it today. She had the founding ideas of COBOL, a programming language that was more accessible to people who were not necessarily computer or math experts. Thanks to it, technology took the first step towards friendly user experiences, which have developed to our time, in which we all take advantage of them daily. -
RACHEL CARSON
Hailing from rural Pennsylvania, Rachel Carson is one of the most important writers, scientists and environmentalists within the environmental movement of the 20th century. -
ROSA PARKS
Life in the United States during the 1950
and before was strongly marked by racial segregation. In this context, specifically in the city of Alabama, Rosa Parks made the historic decision not to give up her seat at the front of the bus, places normally reserved for white people. This action triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycot, as well as the political career of the young Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., fundamental milestones within the civil rights struggle of black people in the United States -
RUTH BADER GINSBURG
The most ruthless judge in the United States is 85 years old. She has been a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1993, and for decades she has dedicated herself to fighting for the equal rights of women and children.