Women who made a difference

  • Gertrude Bell

    Gertrude Bell
    She was one of the first mountaineers to climb the highest mountains.
  • Message about overcoming (Helen Keller)

    She spread the message about overcoming adversity, lecturing across the country around 1902.
  • Provide employment agencies (Helen Keller)

    Provide employment agencies (Helen Keller)
    She proposed that the state should provide employment agencies and training programs for blind people, so they can work, to support themselves and earn respect for themselves around the year 1903.
  • Royal Geographical Society (Gertrude Bell)

    Royal Geographical Society (Gertrude Bell)
    Receiving an award from the Royal Geographical Society, in recognition of her explorations and travel books, she was the first woman to receive this award.
  • The Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers (Helen Keller))

    She established funds from The Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers together with George Kessler, a project for the US and Europe.
  • Creation of Iraq (Gertrude Bell)

    She assisted in the creation of Iraq by giving accurate information about the area to the British government and worked with the Foreign Office in Bish. Who said she was "The ideal spy"
  • American Civil Liberties Union (Helen Keller)

    American Civil Liberties Union (Helen Keller)
    Helen established an organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, which was a campaign for social justice.
  • Helen Keller International

    Helen Keller International
    It was the union of two organizations that worked around the world, against disease and information to save children growing up in poverty.
  • More rights for black people (Rosa Parks)

    More rights for black people (Rosa Parks)
    They made a boycott that lasted 381 days in December 1956 this gave more rights to black people, making juries give more rights to others, to achieve equality.
  • Rosa founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation

    Rosa founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation
    In 1980, Rosa founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation, which helps black people go to college.
  • Black ribbons in his honor (Rosa Parks)

    Black ribbons in his honor (Rosa Parks)
    In 2005 city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons in his honor. For millions of people around the world, because Rosa Parks had made a difference