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Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Elizabeth Billings
- Type: Person
When even the sharpest female minds were denied ranks above "amateur”, Elizabeth Billings (1871-1944) nonetheless achieved enough to impress a modern-day botanist. Her accomplishments included cultivating various gardens, experimenting in farming, managing the family estate, and cataloging hundreds of plants.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Oak Ridge Wayside: The Hutments
- Type: Place
A wayside exhibit in Oak Ridge, Tennessee describing hutments, an inferior form of housing used during the Manhattan Project.
Grand Teton National Park
Jenny Lake Climbing Exhibit
- Type: Place
Summit the Teton mountain peaks at this climbing exhibit. Learn about women alpinists, touch multiple elevation benchmarks, and scope out the different peaks.
Grand Teton National Park
Jenny Lake Gateway to Wilderness
- Type: Place
Interpretive signs introduce the idea of "wilderness". As you head to the western side of Jenny Lake, the developed front country area slips away into an undeveloped, primitive world.
Thomas Stone National Historic Site
Bet: Freedom Seeker
- Type: Person
Discover the mystery of Bet, one of Thomas Stone's enslaved African Americans.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Orlean Puckett
- Type: Person
Legendary midwife, Orlean Puckett, delivered over 1,000 babies in the Appalachian Mountains of southern Virginia.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Imprisonment and Reconciliation: nimíipuu at Vancouver Barracks
- Type: Article
Every year, the imprisonment of Nez Perce men, women, and children at Vancouver Barracks is remembered at the Chief Redheart reconciliation ceremony. Learn the history behind this ceremony and how this important story is remembered today.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Marguerite Thompson Zorach
- Type: Person
When she first met fellow art student William Zorach, he “couldn’t believe such a nice girl could paint such wild pictures.”
- Type: Article
This finding aid describes the National Park Service (NPS) Women's Organization Collection, part of the NPS History Collection
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Greenwich Village Historic District’s reputation for dynamism can be attributed to its history of emerging artists and writers as well as the political unrest and activism of its inhabitants. With the rise of the counterculture movement during the 1960s, Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park became a hub for writers and musicians. In 1969, LGB residents of Greenwich Village pushed back against police harassment at the Stonewall Inn.
Katmai National Park & Preserve
Pelagia Melgenak
- Type: Person
To learn the story of Pelagia (also spelled Palakia) Melgenak is to learn the sanctity of shared traditions, the loving bonds of kinship and the reverence of a spiritual connection to the land around you. Born in the late 1870s in the remote village of Savonoski in Alaska, Pelagia grew up learning about hunting, gathering, navigating and guiding in the area. That all changed in 1912 with the hot ash falling like a blanket covering the region with the eruption of Novarupta.
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Unita Zelma Blackwell (1933-2019)
- Type: Person
Born to sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, Blackwell rose from humble beginnings to become one of many unsung Black female heroines of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Blackwell was an outspoken critic of racial and economic inequality and the first Black female mayor elected in the state of Mississippi. We honor her as an ancestor for reminding us of the power to change the circumstances we were born into.
- Type: Person
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.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990)
- Type: Person
Anna Arnold Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century’s most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice . We honor her as an ancestor for shattering glass ceilings imposed on her by her race and gender.
- Type: Person
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.
- Type: Person
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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These often-overlooked women, who are associated with National Park sites across the country, made significant contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
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Using the Greek word agape, meaning brotherly love, Nash coined the term agapic energy describe this comprehensive phenomenon. This unconditional love for humanity was the driving force behind the movement in the 1960s and can be a driving force among today’s movements, according to Nash. We honor Diane Judith Nash for reminding us of the power of love.
- Type: Person
Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson was an author and anthropologist who wrote about African decolonization, African American civil rights, and international politics.
- Type: Person
Anna Hyatt Huntington was an artist who specialized in sculpting lifelike animals. She was one of the most commercially successful sculptors of her era.