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Betty Naomi Goldstein (was born on February
4, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois). She married Carl
Friedan in 1947. Co-founded National
Organization for Women in 1966 which aimed to
bring women into the mainstream of
American society.
Betty Friedan, author of
"The Feminine Mystique”
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10,
1830 – May 15, 1886) was an America
n
poet. She wrote around eighteen hundred
poems during her lifetime.
Born in Amherst,
Massachusetts –USA.
Rosa Parks, (was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in
Tuskegee on February 4th , 1913 and died on the 24th October,
2005). She was an African-American civil rights
activist. The U.S. Congress later called her the
"Mother of the Modern
-Day Civil Rights
Movement."
Marie Curie, chemist and physicist .
Her real name was , née Maria Sklodowska.
She was born in Warsaw on November 7,
1867. She met and later married Pierre Curie,
Professor in the
School of Physics with
whom she shared her
Nobel prize in physics.
Clara Zetkin (was born Clara Zeissner in Saxony, Germany on
5 July, 1857 and died in Archangelskoye, Russia in 1933). She
was an influential socialist German politician and a
fighter for women’s rights. She took on the name of
her lover, a Russian
revolutionary and fellow
exile, Ossip Zetkin.
Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple”.
Alice Malsenior Walker was born February 9,
1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is
an American author and poet. In 1965, Walker
met and later married
Mel Leventhal a
Jewish civil rights lawyer.
Rita Frances Dove (born 28 August
1952) is an American poet and author.
Dove was born in Akron,Ohio. She is
married to Fred Viebahn a German-born
writer.She is the first African-
American poet laureate.
Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is
an American feminist, journalist, and social and
political activist. Steinem was born in Toledo,
Ohio. She was recognized as a leader of, and
media spokeswoman for,
The Women’s Liberation
Movement.
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17,1956) is
an African American physician and NASA
Astronaut . She was born in Decatur,
Alabama. She became the first African
American woman to
travel in space.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 –
August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-
born psychiatrist and author. Born in
Zurich, Switzerland, one of triplets.
She is the author of the
book "On Death and
Dying"
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 –
June 15, 1996) also known as the “1st
Lady of Song” and "Lady Ella," was an
American jazz and popular song vocalist.
Fitzgerald was born
in Newport News,
Virginia.
Margaret Higgins Sanger
Slee (September 14, 1879 – September
6, 1966) was an American birth control
activist and the founder of Planned
Parenthood.
Sanger was born
in Corning, New
York.
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26,
1935) is an American attorney, a Democratic
Party politician and first female candidate for
Vice President in 1984.
Ferraro was born
in Newburg, New
York.
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (19 November
1917 – 31 October 1984) First female Prime
Minister of the Republic of India for 3
consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and
for a fourth term from
1980 until her
assassination in
1984.
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943
in Long Beach, California) is a former
professional tennis player . She won 12 Grand
Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles
titles, and 11 Grand Slam
mixed doubles titles.She is
married to Lawrence
King.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 –
October 26, 1902… Johnstown, New York) was an
American social activist, abolitionist, and
leading figure of the early woman’s
movement.
Elizabeth was the
eighth of 11 children.
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820
– March 13, 1906. Born and raised in West Grove) was
a prominent American Civil Rights leader
who played a pivotal role in the 19th century
women’s rights
movement to introduce
women’s suffrage
in USA.
Helena Rubinstein (December 25, 1870 – April 1,
1965. Born Chaja Rubinstein, the eldest of eight children),
a Polish cosmetics industrialist, founder and
eponym of H. Rubinstein, Inc., It made her one of
the world's richest women.
Married an American
journalist Edward
William Titus in London.
Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese American; born
October 27, 1940 in Stockton, California to first
generation Chinese immigrants. ) is an author and
Professor Emeritus at the University of
California, Berkeley.
In 1962 Maxine
married Earl Kingston,
an actor
Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993. Born
in Ixelles, Belgium as Audrey Kathleen Ruston. ) British actress
and humanitarian. Studied ballet, worked as a
photographer’s model and later took on an acting carrier
becoming one of the
most successful film actresses
in the world winning an
Academy Award, a Golden
Globe and a BAFTA for her
performance in the film
Roman Holiday.
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on
April 4, 1928 St. Louis, Missouri) is an African
American autobiographer and poet who has
been called "America's most visible black
female autobiographer.