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Heroes

Notes by Beth L. compiled in the fall of 2001 for our concert, Wild Women Just Get Better!

Sojourner Truth - Charismatic and effective speaker for abolition of slavery and equal rights for women (circa 1797-1883)

Eleanor Roosevelt - Social activist, author, lecturer, and U.S. representative to the United Nations (1884-1962)

Katherine Hepburn - American stage and film actress, known as a spirited performer with a touch of eccentricity, winner of four Academy Awards for best actress, (1909- )

Sally Ride - First American woman astronaut to take part in an orbital mission (1951- )

Susan B. Anthony - Led the struggle to gain the vote for women through activism, lecturing and writing (1820-1906)

Harriet Tubman - American abolitionist leader who personally led over 300 people to freedom along the Underground Railroad (circa 1820-1913)

Annie Sullivan - Taught Helen Keller how to read and write, and became her lifelong friend (1866-1936)

Gertrude Stein - avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II (1874-1946)

Coretta Scott King - American civil rights activist who was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1927- )

Amelia Earhart - First woman aviator to make a transatlantic flight solo establishing a new record for the crossing; went on to win awards for establishing new records for flying (1898-1937)

Lillian Hellman - American playwright and motion-picture screenwriter whose dramas forcefully attacked injustice, exploitation, and selfishness (1907-1984)

Eartha Kitt - International, multi-lingual singer, dancer and actress (~1931- )

Sacajawea - Shoshone Indian woman who served as an invaluable guide to the Lewis and Clark expedition while she carried her new-born son on her back (1787? - 1812 or 1884)

Ella Fitzgerald - American jazz singer known for her superlative musicianship and her skill in scat singing (1918-1996 )

Golda Meir - Israeli Premier and a founder of the state of Israel (1898-1978)

Dorothy Dix - American philanthropist and reformer of prisons and institutes for the insane and destitute (1802-1887)

Louisa May Alcott - American author known for her children's books, especially the classic Little Women (1832-1888)

Billie Jean King - Superb American tennis player who was instrumental in increasing the popularity of women’s tennis (1943- )

Emily Dickinson - American lyric poet who has been called “the New England mystic” and who experimented with poetic rhythms and rhymes (1830-1836)

Lucy Stone - American pioneer feminist and abolitionist (1818-1883)

Margaret Sanger- American leader of the birth control movement (1883-1966)

Clara Barton - Founder of the American Red Cross (1821-1912)

Billie Holiday - One of the greatest jazz-blues singers of all time (1915-1959)

Juliette Low - Founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (1860-1927)

Elizabeth Blackwell - First woman medical doctor in the United States (1821-1910)

Rosa Parks - American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the spark that ignited the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (1913- )

Lena Horne - American singer and actress (1917- )

Beverly Sills - American soprano singer and general director of the New York City Opera (1929- )

Barbara Jordan -American educator and politician; U.S. representative from Texas (1936- 1996)

Helen Keller - American author and lecturer overcoming severe physical handicaps (1880-1968)

Indira Gandhi - Prime Minister of India (1917-1984)

Agnes DeMille - American dancer and choreographer for Broadway, ballets, and her own dance troupe (1905-1993)

Corazon Aquino - President of the Philippines (1933- )

Gloria Steinem - American feminist writer and political activist; co-founder of Ms. magazine (1934- )

Rachel Carson - American marine biologist, author of widely read books on ecological themes -(1907-1964)

Joan of Arc - National hero and patron saint of France (1412-1431)

Babe Zaharias - Named the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century (1913-1956)

Marlene Dietrich - American actor and singer of German descent (1901-1992)

Anne Frank - Young Jewish girl whose diary of her family's two years in hiding during the German occupation of The Netherlands became a classic of war literature (1929-1945)

Simone de Beauvoir - French novelist and advocate of existentialism (1908-1986)

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