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Hazel Ying Lee: First Female Chinese American Military Pilot
Hazel Ying Lee broke barriers by becoming the first female Chinese-American pilot to fly for the military during World War II. Women were not permitted by the U.S. military to fly overseas missions,...
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Louisa May Alcott’s Home: Orchard House
Used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House Little Women is destined to be one of the big holiday movies of 2019, entertaining audiences with the warmth and love of the four March sisters...
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Cherry Trees Brought to D.C. By Helen Taft
The cherry blossom trees that bloom so beautifully along the Potomac in Washington, D.C. are a huge and very deserving tourist attraction each spring. The story of these trees is that they were given...
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Ruth Robertson: Photojournalist, War Correspondent, Explorer
Ruth Robertson was a photojournalist, war correspondent, and explorer at a time when few women had careers at all, let alone one that involved traveling the world. Ruth Robertson, Photojournalist...
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Marjorie Stewart Joyner: Permanent Hair-Wave Machine Inventor
Invented a permanent wave machine that added curl to straight hair and could be used to straighten curly hair Became national supervisor for more than 200 beauty colleges owned by Madame C.J. Walker;...
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Annie Oakley: Sharpshooter & Remarkable Woman
Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Mosey. She developed uncanny sharpshooter skills, and became part of a traveling show. At that point, she changed her name to Annie Oakley and became famous throughout...
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Ethel Waters, Blues Singer and Actress
Ethel Waters was an enormously popular jazz and blues singer from the 1920s until her death in 1977. She broke barriers in many cultural areas and created a path for Blacks to star on Broadway. Her...
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Maggie Lena Walker, Black Businesswoman and Bank President
Maggie Lena Walker was the first Black woman in the nation or organize and run a bank. She led a fraternal organization, the Independent Order of Saint Luke. Through it, she also started a Black...
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Rose Knox: Businesswoman Ahead of Her Time
Rose Knox started the Knox Gelatine Company with her husband, Charles, in Johnstown, New York, in 1890. (Gelatine was the preferred spelling at that time.) When Charles died unexpectedly in 1908, Rose...
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Voting Rights Advocate Fannie Lou Hamer
As a Mississippi resident, Fannie Lou Hamer was not informed that Black people had the right to vote in the United States until she was almost 42 years old (1960). The family had no television set,...
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U.S. Nurses Survive 3 Years in Japanese Prison Camp
Nurses working for the U.S. Army Nurse Corps were sent to the Philippines from 1939-41 in preparation for possible war in the South Pacific. The world knew Japan was a threat, and the Philippines, a...
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Dr. Alice Hamilton and Industrial Toxicology
Worker safety in factories and industrial plants became an issue in the late 19th century when more workers left their farms for jobs in cities. Alice Hamilton, a young woman from a well-to-do family...
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Mexican Food Popularized in U.S. by Elena Zelayeta
The Mexican influence on popular American cuisine dates to the 1920s and ‘30s. One of the leaders in introducing these recipes to the public was Elena Zelayeta (1898-1974), a young Mexican woman who...
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed in 1943 to entertain crowds at home during World War II. As male baseball players were drafted into the military, many—including Chicago...
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Tombs Angel: A One-Woman Social Service Agency
Rebecca Foster Salome was a middle-class woman who earned the apt name the “Tombs Angel” for her daily visits to the Manhattan courts and detention center in the 1880s-1890s. Known as the Tombs, The...
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