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Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Marguerite Thompson Zorach
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When she first met fellow art student William Zorach, he “couldn’t believe such a nice girl could paint such wild pictures.”
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Mrs. Recy Taylor was just 24 years old when she was brutally raped by six white men in Alabama. Upholding the Black woman's tradition of testimony and protest, Taylor actively participated in the pursuit to bring her attackers to justice. Though the men were acquitted in two separate trials, Taylor's courage speaks to the resolve of Black women to channel their pain and anger into political anger. We honor Taylor as an ancestor for teaching us a lesson on courage.
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Before Shirley Graham married W.E.B. Du Bois in 1951, she had earned a national reputation as a playwright, composer, conductor, director, and author. Born to a A.M.E. minister and a European mother, Graham was raised to appreciate Black culture and music. From a young age, her parents instilled in her the importance of social justice and the uplift of the Black Community. For her lifelong dedication, we honor her as an ancestor.
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There are people who give great speeches, and they there are those who perform them. Hallie Quinn Brown was one of the few who perform speeches. In her era, she was recognized as one of the greatest elocutionists across two continents, Europe and America. Though she rarely appears in history books, Brown’s legacy can be found in today’s speech-language pathologists and spoken word artists. She lectured widely on the cause of temperance, women’s suffrage, and civil rights. We
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Anna Hyatt Huntington was an artist who specialized in sculpting lifelike animals. She was one of the most commercially successful sculptors of her era.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Maria Oakey Dewing
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When playwright Oscar Wilde asked, “Why don’t you go into decoration & wipe them all out?”, she responded by saying, “Because I must paint pictures or die”.
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Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson was an evangelist, radio broadcaster, and public speaker. She innovated new ways to deliver religious messages through mass media.
Nicodemus National Historic Site
Nettie Craig Asberry
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Nettie Craig Asberry is considered the first Black woman to earn a doctorate degree. Her family settled in Nicodemus in 1879, and she taught in town from 1886-1889, teaching both at the District No. 1 School and offering private music lessons. Asberry spent most of her life in Tacoma, Washington where she continued to teach music and advocated for the equal rights of all.
Harry S Truman National Historic Site
Jennifer A. Hayes Oral History Interview
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Jennifer Hayes was one of the first employees of a new National Park in Independence, Missouri, called Harry S Truman National Historic Site. She tells the wonderful story of our earliest days.
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Susan Small was a seventeen-year-old wife and mother when she escaped to freedom with her infant son Philip aboard the Confederate steamer the "Planter."
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Reformer and writer Julia Ward Howe is most famous for writing the words to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the American Civil War and the "Mother's Day Proclamation" (1870). She advocated for the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and peace.
Hampton National Historic Site
Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard
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Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard went against the norms of her time and took a silent stand against the institution of slavery the best way she knew how. According to several historical accounts, she helped influence her father, Charles Carnan Ridgely, to manumit (free) many of those he enslaved. She championed what she thought was right, a stand that led to a rift in the family, though she never lived to see the impact of her actions. Pushing for social change.
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Cuba Vassall
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Cuba Vassall was the matriarch of a family that included abolitionists and community builders. As she navigated slavery and freedom in Massachusetts, Cuba advocated for her own and her family’s interests. In comparison with many formerly enslaved women of her era, Cuba Vassall’s life is relatively well documented.
Antietam National Battlefield
May Lundberg Antietam National Cemetery
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May Lundberg is the only female veteran buried in Antietam National Cemetery. During World War I, she served as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps working at the American Hospital of Paris and for Red Cross Hospital in Paris.
Boston African American National Historic Site
Fannie Barrier Williams
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As a member of the National League of Colored Women, Illinois Woman’s Alliance, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and other women-led organizations, Fannie Barrier Williams laid the groundwork for women’s civic participation in the late 1800s. She used her talents of speaking and writing to pursue activism for the Black women’s rights movement of her time.
Presidio of San Francisco
Dr. Margaret "Mom" Chung
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Dr. Margaret “Mom” Chung was the first Chinese American woman to become a physician. She founded one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1920s. During World War II, she and her widespread network of “adopted sons,” most of them American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who called her “Mom,” became famous. Although she faced prejudice because of her race, gender, and sexuality, Dr. Chung forged a distinctive path throughout her life.
Stonewall National Monument
Stormé DeLarverie
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Stormé DeLarverie was a butch lesbian with zero tolerance for discrimination, or as she called it, “ugliness.” She was born in New Orleans on Christmas Eve to a Black mother and white father. She had a beautiful baritone voice and discovered a love for jazz at a very early age. She started singing in New Orleans clubs at 15, and soon after began touring around Europe, eventually landing in New York City.
Boston African American National Historic Site
Maria W. Stewart
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Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto. Her calls for Black people to resist slavery, oppression, and exploitation were radical and influential.
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Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 -1947) began her career as a national women’s rights activist when she addressed the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890 at their national convention in Washington DC. She quickly became a dedicated writer, lecturer, and recruiter for the suffrage movement. She also worked for peace and was a co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
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In 1921, Otero-Warren ran for federal office, campaigning to be the Republican Party nominee for New Mexico to the US House of Representatives. She won the nomination, but lost the election by less than nine percent. She remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.