974: Dr. Rachel Caroline Eaton The First Native American Woman from Oklahoma to Earn a PhD Born: 7 June 1869, Flint Creek, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States of America (Present-day Flint Creek, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, United States of America) Died: 20 September 1938, Claremore, Oklahoma, United States of America Also Known As: Callie Eaton…
“I was well aware that when a woman takes over work done by a man, she has to do it better, has more of it to do, and usually for less pay.” 970: Maude Frazier The First Female Lieutenant Governor of Nevada Born: 4 April 1881, Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States of America Died: 20…
968: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Opened the First English Language Kindergarten in the United States Born: 16 May 1804, Billerica, Massachusetts, United States of America Died: 3 January 1894, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States of America Elizabeth was a transcendentalist, author, and educator. Elizabeth was, like most women of her time, educated at home by her…
959: Alice Berry Graham Created a Children’s Hospital in Kansas City (Missouri) Born: c.1850, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States of America Died: 3 May 1913, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America Alice used her salary as a schoolteacher to send her younger sister Katharine to medical school. Once Katharine had earned her medical degree,…
“…a woman with a plan is persistent.” -Waterlily (1948) 957: Ella Cara Deloria Yankton Sioux Linguist, Ethnographer and Anthropologist Born: c.1888*, Yankton Sioux Reservation, Dakota Territory, United States of America (Present-day Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, United States of America) Died: 12 February 1971, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America Original Name: Anpetu Washte-win…
948: Etta Eugenie Schureman Jones Teacher Turned Prisoner of War Born: September 1879, New Jersey*, United States of America Died: December 1965, Bradenton, Florida, United States of America Etta taught at Alaskan schools for Native children and was a trained nurse. She married her husband when she was forty-two years old, and they never had…
940: Elizabeth Jennings Graham Rosa Parks Who? Born: c.1830*, New York, United States of America Died: 5 June 1901, Manhattan, New York, United States of America Elizabeth is known for being the first African American woman to be denied a seat on public transportation and whose case later made national news in the United States…
938: Fereshteh Forough Founder, CEO, & President of Code to Inspire Born: 1985, Iran* Code to Inspire is the first school to teach girls coding in Afghanistan. Fereshteh is an education advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment in developing countries. Fereshteh is one of eight children. Her family left Afghanistan after the Soviet Invasion…
“You can’t regret your fate. Although I do regret my mother didn’t marry a carpenter.” 913: Lana Peters Most Known for Being Josef Stalin’s Daughter Born: 28 February 1926, Moscow, Soviet Union (Present-day Moscow, Russia) Died: 22 November 2011, Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States of America Original Name: Svetlana Stalina Also Known As: Svetlana Alliluyeva…
“In my imagination I walk through our Dayton home, looking for [Orville] and all the dear family things that made my home. But I never find [Orville], and I have lost my old home forever, I fear.” 912: Katharine Wright Haskell Most Known for Being the Sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright Born: 19 August…