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“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” -Marie Curie
Dorothea Dix
This strong woman was an advocator and educator of the mentally ill.
After volunteering to teach classes to inmates at a jail and noticed some mentally ill women shivering for they had no furnace.
The excuse of the keepers was that “lunatics do not feel cold”, they might burn down the building or such. She found this unjust and toured other jails and hospitals and became a spokeswoman for those she found were kept in unjust conditions.
As an advocator of human rights, Dorothea Dix deserves to be recognized.
Mary Mahoney
The first African-American woman to study and professionally work as a nurse.
She paved the way for other African American women to study professionally to become a nurse.
The training/study to actually become a nurse then was so rigorous that of the 18 women who were training to become trained nurses, only 4 women, including Mahoney, actually finished and graduated with diploma.
IMPORTANT WOMEN IN HISTORY
Amelia Earhart
We have all heard this name before, but I believe this woman to be a very daring and important person in history. The first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
The will power and strength this woman had in order to accomplish such a huge goal is what I believe makes her such a good woman for my blog.
She fought like a girl, and now she is in all the history books. What a woman.
Doctor Eugenie Clark, pioneer in scuba diving and shark research, founder of Mote Marine Laboratory. she has four species of fish named after her. she is amazing.
Found: Identity of the Female Fire Fighters at Pearl Harbor
Just last week we posted an article about this amazing picture of four women wielding a fire hose, understood for years to be a depiction of women firefighters rushing to the job during the attacks on Pearl Harbor seventy years ago this month. Their identities were unknown. Just last week, MSNBC decided that this was a mystery well worth solving, and solve it they have. The last surviving woman from this picture is the ninety-six-year-old Katherine Lowe; mother of eight and grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother of too many for MSNBC to count; and she’s got a lot of revelatory things to say about the photo, its origins, and the place that she and the other women actually had in the war effort.
April 19, 1967: Kathrine Switzer is first woman to officially enter in and run the Boston Marathon. She used her initials to register, and when it was discovered she was female, race official Jock Semple attempted to physically remove her race number and eject her. She finished the marathon.
Fighting women of Dahomey
The Dahomey Amazons, or Mino, were a Fon (a major West African ethnic and linguistic group in the country of Benin, and southwest Nigeria) all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin), which lasted until the end of the 19th century.
