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Elizabeth Blackwell, MD: America's First Formally

WEBSandy Levins November 15, 2017. One of America's most important historical female doctors, Elizabeth Blackwell played a major role in organizing medical relief facilities for soldiers of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. The organization she founded led to the creation of 30 major medical facilities for battle casualties.

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Mary Eliza Mahoney – First African American Graduate Nurse

WEBIn 1879, Mary Mahoney made American history when she graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children’s nursing school as the first African American to become a professional, licensed nurse. When Mary Eliza Mahoney graduated in 1879 as America’s first professional nurse, she stood on the shoulders of giants.

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Bessie Blount Griffin: Inventor, Crime Fighter, Hospital Wonder …

WEBAfter World War II, she found her true calling, working to rehabilitate the paralyzed and limbless veterans who crowded America’s V.A. hospitals in the early post-war years. Blount was so good at rehab, her colleagues called her Wonder Woman. Falling back on her self-taught skills from that one-room schoolhouse, she even taught some of her

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Early Champion of Better Care for the Mentally Ill

WEBOver her lifetime, Dorothea Lynde Dix became a famed advocate for more humane and effective treatment of mental illness in the United States and Europe. When she began her life’s work in the first half of the 19th century, victims of mental illness were viewed with fear and annoyance; the only solution was to “put them away” in hellish

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Loretta Walsh, 1917, First Woman to Enlist in the U.S. Navy

WEBSandy Levins December 13, 2017. Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first women to enlist in the U.S. Navy in 1917, that service didn't yet have uniforms for female sailors. She served as a yeoman at the U.S. Navy Yard in Philadelphia and opened the floodgates for early 20th century women to serve in the military.

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Henrietta Duterte: A History-Making Undertaker and

WEBHenrietta Duterte was the first African-American woman to own a funeral home. A facilitator for runaway slaves traveling north on the underground railroad in the early 19th century, Henrietta Duterte also made local and national history in the business of burying the dead. Since ancient times, women have been caregivers to the dead — washing

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The Mother of American Midwifery: Mary Carson Breckinridge

WEBBoth children died. Breckinridge married in 1904. When her husband died suddenly just two years later, she decided to go into nursing. She entered St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses in New York, graduating in 1910. After remarrying in 1912, she retired from nursing to raise a family. Within two years, she gave birth to a son

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Jackie Ormes – First African American Female Cartoonist

WEBCrusading Journalist Targeted by FBI during Joe McCarthy Era. With the publication of her comic strip in the Pittsburgh Courier in 1937, Jackie Ormes became the first African American woman newspaper cartoonist. It was the beginning of a long career as a crusading journalist, artist and activist who used her pen as an instrument of protest and

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Margaret Fogarty Rudkin, Feminist Founder of Pepperidge Farm

WEBRudkin’s was the first cookbook to make the New York Times bestseller list. Margaret Rudkin sold Pepperidge Farm to the Campbell Soup Company, headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, for $28 million dollars (over $237 million in 2019 money) in 1961, becoming that company’s first female board member. Her Pepperidge Farm Cookbook, which …

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