10 Women of the past

By djrocks511

  • Nancy Reagan

    1. First lady
    2. Famous actress.
    3. Was with the Foster Grandparent program
    4. Was in the musical Flute song

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    1. Recieved 13 grammys
    2. Sung with Webbs orchestra
    3. Eventually became bandleader
    4. on tour she met her husband

  • Shirley Temple Black

    1. Youngest actor to win an academy award
    2. Served as us ambassador to ghana
    3. First woman to server as chief protocol
    4. Invented the color "Temple Blue"

  • Mary Mcleod Bethune

    1. organized the National Council of Negro Women, a coalition of black women's groups that lobbies against job discrimination, racism, and sexism.
    2. An extroardanary educator
    3. Founded Bethune-Cookman college
    4. Government Official.

  • Roselyn Sussman Yalow

    1. Joined the staff at the Bronx Veterans Administration hospital
    2. Served as the Mount Sinai school of medicines research director
    3. Recieved the nobel prize for medicine
    4. Responsible for the use of iodine in the detection of thyroid disease

  • Sylvia Plath

    1. American Poet
    2. Straight-A-Student
    3. Attempted suicide
    4. Wrote 400 poems while attending college

  • Marian Wright Edelman

    1. First african american to pass the bar exam in mississippi
    2. Created the Childrens Defense fund
    3. Recieved the mcgarther fellowship award.
    4. Created "Stand for Children"

  • Bella Abzug

    1. helped organize the womens strike for peace in 1961
    2. Servered in the house of representatives
    3. Established womens environmental organization
    4. Helped establish the nations womens political caucus

  • Betty Friedan

    1. Published her highly influential book The Feminine Mystique, which describes the dissatisfaction felt by middle-class American housewives with the narrow role imposed on them by society. The book becomes a best-seller and galvanizes the modern women's rights movement.
    2. Co-founder of the national organization for woment (Exists Now)
    3. Fought for abortion rights and established the notional association for the repeal of abortion laws.
    4. Feminist writer and rights activist.

  • Judith E. Heumann

    1. Helped develop the individuals with disabilities education act
    2. Helped draft the americans with disabilities act.
    3. Vice-president of the world institute on disability
    4. Also the director of its research and training centre.