To begin, Annie was born December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware, U. S. She was the first woman in her family to go to college. Annie went to Wellesley college and studied physics and astronomy, later graduating in 1884. For the next 10 years, she lived at home, caring for her mother and doing some traveling, photograph, and some interest in music. Annie went back to Wellesley college in 1893, for a year of advanced study in astronomy. She also went to Radcliffe to continue more of her studies, for 2 years, (Britannica). One of the reasons Annie jump Cannon is an influential woman to me is because of how hard she worked in college and continue to study. Many women did not go college and for some that did learning about a difficult was work.
Civil rights demonstrates that all people, no matter what race, religion, color or class, are equal and have equal rights. Although the civil rights time period is a subject that is not talked about much today, it was years ago when there was a lot of segregation and discrimination. There were many African Americans who made a difference in their fight for civil rights, but not many white people tried to make that same difference. Jane Addams was one of the few white people who made this effort; she had an even bigger impact on civil rights since she was female and wealthy, along with her skin color. Jane Addams got involved in promoting civil rights because she grew up around many sophisticated adults that also supported it.
She was accepted into the University of Illinois and attended there from 1914-1916. She left school to move to New York city. Dorothy then got involved with the literary and liberal crowd
“There was to be the beginning of the battle, and there I should be needed first” (Harkins). Clara Barton, a feminist and a nurse, worked in the battle field and had a first hand experience of the tragedies of war. Barton first worked in a patent office and did work on missing soldiers. About a year after she began work in the field and gained knowledge and experience. During her time away she found the International Red Cross which sparked Clara to begin the American Red Cross.
Annie Jean Easley was born April 23, 1933 to Mary Melvina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley, in Birmingham Alabama. She was raised, along with her older brother, by a single mom. Annie attended schools in Birmingham and graduated high school valedictorian of her class. Throughout high school Annie wanted to be a nurse because she thought that the only careers that were open to African American women at the time were nursing and teaching and she definitely did not want to teach so she settled on being a nurse but as she studied in high school she began thinking about becoming a pharmacist.
This fantastic discovery rewarded her diligence with recognition in a plethora of sophisticated circles of astronomers. She continued on to become a professor of astronomy at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she faithfully educated her students until 1888, one year before she tragically died. On August 1, 1818 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Maria Mitchell was born to Quaker parents, William and Lydia Mitchell. Her father was a schoolteacher and later a banker as well as an amateur astronomer and a colleague of William Cranch Bond, who became the first director of the observatory at Harvard University. Although many households at that time disagreed with them, the Mitchells encouraged the education of all ten of their children, including the girls, and likewise,
There, she attended the Radford School for Girls and graduated high school two years early. At the age of 16, she was admitted to Stanford University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1950. Later that year, she went to Stanford Law and she worked on the Stanford Law Review. O’Connor finished
Annie J. Easley was born April 23, 1933 in Birmingham Alabama. She was the daughter of Samuel Bird Easley and Mary Melvina Hoover. Mrs.Easley and her brother were both raised by their single mother. Also, she had attended parochial schools in Birmingham since the fifth grade through high school and also graduated as a valedictorian. Although Easley’s mother had told her that she could become anything that she wanted to become.
Abigail Scott Duniway Woman’s suffrage in the Pacific Northwest is something taken for granted these days. Women were not always able to vote; at least, not before a select group of women stood up for what they thought was right. Abigail Scott Duniway was one of those women. She was a suffragette for the West, specifically Oregon State.
Carrie Chapman Catt was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin. Carries father would not pay for her college education so Carrie began working as a teacher to earn the money to go to college at Iowa State College. In 1880 Carrie graduated Iowa State College with a bachelor’s degree. The following year Carrie became a high school principal in Iowa then two years later she became the superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa. Carrie married Leo Chapman who was a newspaper editor in 1885.
She was able to attend Mount Holyoke, however, she later graduated from Oberlin College in 1847. Lucy Stone became the first woman to receive a college degree. This event had a great impact on society since it broke stereotypes and motivated more women to fulfil their purposes. After showing her abilities, she began to receive many threats, attacks, and abuse from others, however, she did not stop and continued to surpass herself to prove that there should be no inequality just because of the gender with which a person was born.
Her parents were divorced and she just wanted to get away from all of that. She received a full-ride scholarship to Iowa State University, the home of the Cyclones. She decided her path there would lead her to major in political science and later on she would go to law school. She was an
Along with that she also had received many honorary degrees from places such as Harvard University, Johnson Wales University, Smith college, Brown University, and many
When Jemison was a little girl she spent a lot of time reading about science. Her favorite kind of science was astronomy. When she was in high school she found out she wanted to get a job in biomedical engineering. After graduating as an honor student she went to Stanford University With a National Achievement scholarship. At Stanford she was involved in many things like Dance, Theater, and was head of the Black Student Union.
Lucille Ball is an admirable woman for contributing to the world numerous times. Born on August 6, 1911, in Jamestown, New York. Lucille Ball got her start as a singer, model and film star before becoming one of America's top comedic actresses. With the 1950s TV show I Love Lucy, she became a hit. When she was 15 she convinced her mother to allow her to enroll in a New York City drama school.
Betsy Ross didn't directly contribute to the Revolutionary War. Instead, she was a symbol which united people to the cause. In May of 1776, Betsy began sewing the very first American flag ever; it consisted of 13 stars and 13 stripes.