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Susan B Anthony
1863- Anthony organised a Women's National Loyal League to support and petition for the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery
1853- Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the Women's State Temperance Society with the goal of petitioning the State legislature to pass a law limiting the sale of liquor. The State Legislature rejected the petition because most of the 28,000 signatures were from women and children.
1904- Anthony presided over the International Council of Women
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Carrie Chapman Catt
1895-1900: Carrie was head of feild organizing for National American Woman Suffrage Association
1904-1923: She served as president of NAWSA
1920- Helped pass the 19th ammendment wich gave women the right to vote by gaining more states' approval for women to vote
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Mary McLeod Bethune
1904- Founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls
served as president of the National Association of Colored Women
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Helen Keller
1915, along with renowned city planner George Kessler, she co-founded Helen Keller International to combat the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition
1920, she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union
1924, and participated in many campaigns to raise awareness, money and support for the blind
1946, Keller was appointed counselor of international relations for the American Foundation of Overseas Blind -
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Frances Perkins
1910- she became head of the New York Consumer's League, lobbying for better working hours and conditions
1933- first woman elected to be part of the presidential cabinent
1943- chairwoman of the President's Committee on Economic Security
1945- Perkins was asked by President Truman to serve on the U.S. Civil Service Commission -
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Amelia Earhart
1928 june 17-18, became first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger. Was the first woman to make a solo round-trip flight across the United States
1932 May 20-21, became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
1935 January 11-12, became first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California
1937 Record flight around the world along the equator, before disappearing
April 19-20, became first person to fly solo from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City -
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Rosa Parks
1955- Rosa was on a bus and was ordered to move since she was black, she refused and the police escorted her off the bus.
This sparked a boycott on city busses
She helped inspire Martin Luther King Jr.
1956, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation on buses -
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Fannie Lou Hamer
1964, Hamer helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which was established in opposition to her state’s all-white delegation to that year's Democratic convention
A police had two other black prisoners beat Hamer after she was arrest for having the color for her bus
1968 the Democratic Party, which by then required its state parties to integrate, seated Hamer as a delegate at its presidential nominating convention in Chicago
1970 Hamer filed a lawsuit charging that Sunflower County -
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Sandra Day O'Connor
1969, she made the move to state politics with an appointment by Governor Jack Williams to state senate to fill a vacancy
1979, O’Connor was selected to serve on the state’s court of appeals. Only two years later, President Ronald Reagan nominated her for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Toni Morrison
She is a black rights writer
The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970
ong of Solomon (1977) became the first work by an African-American author to be a featured selection in the book-of-the-month club
Morrison was appointed to the National Council on the Arts in 1980
received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the first African-American woman to be selected for the award