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Anna May Wong a.k.a. Wong Liu Tsong. Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, both in Hollywood and internationally, and the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood ...
Elizabeth (or Bessie) Coleman [ 13] was born on January 26, 1892, in Atlanta, Texas, [ 10] the tenth of 13 children of George Coleman, an African American who may have had Cherokee or Choctaw grandparents, and Susan Coleman, who was African American. [ 14][ 15] Nine of the children survived childhood, which was typical for the time. [ 14]
Hetty Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) [1] was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age.Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics. [2]
List of women explorers and travelers. English writer Gertrude Bell in Iraq, 1909. Belgian Berthe Cabra. Japanese climber Junko Tabei. Hungarian geographer Béláné Mocsáry. Canadian-born Aloha Wanderwell. The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders ...
March is Women’s History Month, and there's no better time to celebrate the accomplishments of the iconic women who shaped our history.. These amazing artists, actors, pilots, poets, athletes ...
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household. Born during the Spanish colonial period, LaLaurie ...
Anne Hutchinson. Anne Hutchinson ( née Marbury; July 1591 – August 1643) was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the ...