Barton was one of America's greatest humanitarians, a nurse during the Civil War who became president of the Red Cross.
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The cofounder of the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), she championed equal rights for women. She didn't…
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A fugitive slave who, at great peril to herself, helped nearly 300 slaves escape the South via the Underground Railroad. She was also a Civil War spy…
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The first American woman to graduate from medical school, she started the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, and taught medicine…
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Mary Harris Jones, assailed in Congress as "the grandmother of all agitators," and hailed as "the miner's angel" by workers, fought against child…
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Over the objections of her father and despite the initial disdain of male painters, she became an acclaimed chronicler of the tenderest moments in…
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Her husband agreed she should devote four months a year to securing the vote for women. She packed a lot in: As president of the National American…
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Phoebe Ann Mosey joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1885, the same year Good Housekeeping was launched. She was a staunch supporter…
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