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On one of our new moderator's posts yesterday, I noticed a comment that suggested that because Rezko, rev Wright, and other things were Republican talking points, that we should not be allowed to discuss them here.
I'd like to address that as the admin and owner of the "Build the Party" group. "Build the Party" has about 70 members, many of whom have been very quiet recently given the atmosphere here. But the group was created long ago because this IS party builder, I am dedicated, as are all the members of that group, to using this site to promote the Democratic party and help secure a victory for our nominee. "Build the Party" members have always sought to defuse the fighting here on the site, and promote working together.
Now, speaking as a person who has ever worked toward the goal of Party Building, I feel that suggestion about Republican talking points is a poorly thought out, and frankly bizarre extension of censorship over the material that appears on this blog. The recent purge of several members who were working against the party from within may have been necessary from the moderator's point of view, however, I would caution all of us. We, as a blog community, now have both feet on a very slippery slope. Let's NOT rush to create a "book burning" list of things we're not allowed to talk about... and here's why:
Consider some voter who has never been active in politics. He or she is undecided and thinking about maybe voting this time around. He or she is surfing the net for information. On the RNC blogs, that undecided voter will read the talking points against Senator Obama. They will read about Rezko's connection, they will read about Rev Wright, ... they'll see a link to the "God damn America" soundbite.... we KNOW what undecided voters will be fed on a conservative blog. So then suppose that voter comes here to see what we have to say. Do we censor ourselves out of posting discussions that offer rebuttals to those talking points? Given the opportunity, I can, or Liz could, or Kathleen could completely take apart the Rev. Wright issue, so that any undecided voter would immediately see the Republican spin machine for the idiotic propaganda that it is. However, if that topic is off limits to us, as was suggested in the comment on Matt's post, then we can offer no discussion and no rebuttal to their talking points.
Your call, democrats.
I'd like to address that as the admin and owner of the "Build the Party" group. "Build the Party" has about 70 members, many of whom have been very quiet recently given the atmosphere here. But the group was created long ago because this IS party builder, I am dedicated, as are all the members of that group, to using this site to promote the Democratic party and help secure a victory for our nominee. "Build the Party" members have always sought to defuse the fighting here on the site, and promote working together.
Now, speaking as a person who has ever worked toward the goal of Party Building, I feel that suggestion about Republican talking points is a poorly thought out, and frankly bizarre extension of censorship over the material that appears on this blog. The recent purge of several members who were working against the party from within may have been necessary from the moderator's point of view, however, I would caution all of us. We, as a blog community, now have both feet on a very slippery slope. Let's NOT rush to create a "book burning" list of things we're not allowed to talk about... and here's why:
Consider some voter who has never been active in politics. He or she is undecided and thinking about maybe voting this time around. He or she is surfing the net for information. On the RNC blogs, that undecided voter will read the talking points against Senator Obama. They will read about Rezko's connection, they will read about Rev Wright, ... they'll see a link to the "God damn America" soundbite.... we KNOW what undecided voters will be fed on a conservative blog. So then suppose that voter comes here to see what we have to say. Do we censor ourselves out of posting discussions that offer rebuttals to those talking points? Given the opportunity, I can, or Liz could, or Kathleen could completely take apart the Rev. Wright issue, so that any undecided voter would immediately see the Republican spin machine for the idiotic propaganda that it is. However, if that topic is off limits to us, as was suggested in the comment on Matt's post, then we can offer no discussion and no rebuttal to their talking points.
Your call, democrats.
Kennedy doesn't play by the rules
Looks to me like some are NIMBYs! (For those of you that don't know, that is Not In My Back Yard)
Looks to me like some are NIMBYs! (For those of you that don't know, that is Not In My Back Yard)
Not that this is really an issue for Democrats to talk about... but there's enough people throwing it out there these days...
Let's do it.
Who you gonna run on a third party? On what platform? and with what chance of success?
Serious discussion time.
Let's do it.
Who you gonna run on a third party? On what platform? and with what chance of success?
Serious discussion time.
Obviously, the system is not working the way we'd all like for it to.
I have some personal experience in the system. After my divorce, I wanted to go back and finish my incomplete university degree. I had two small children, no child support, and a low income. To my thinking, someone in that position should have been the welfare system's Golden Child. Working, with 3 years of university already passed, just needing 3 more semesters to complete a degree.... obviously not a habitual welfare recipient.
But what I found was that I had to fight, argue, appeal, struggle, beg and humiliate myself in order to get the assistance that was absolutely necessary if I was going to improve things for myself and my kids. Anyone with less then EXTREME determination would have been deterred by the red tape and the discouraging amount of time that has to be spent literally begging and justifying yourself. It would have been much more simple to give up hope and accept a life of low income unskilled labor and live in low income housing and raise kids with no aspirations.
But that's just one example. The system is broken.
What do we do?
I have some personal experience in the system. After my divorce, I wanted to go back and finish my incomplete university degree. I had two small children, no child support, and a low income. To my thinking, someone in that position should have been the welfare system's Golden Child. Working, with 3 years of university already passed, just needing 3 more semesters to complete a degree.... obviously not a habitual welfare recipient.
But what I found was that I had to fight, argue, appeal, struggle, beg and humiliate myself in order to get the assistance that was absolutely necessary if I was going to improve things for myself and my kids. Anyone with less then EXTREME determination would have been deterred by the red tape and the discouraging amount of time that has to be spent literally begging and justifying yourself. It would have been much more simple to give up hope and accept a life of low income unskilled labor and live in low income housing and raise kids with no aspirations.
But that's just one example. The system is broken.
What do we do?
According to Nathan Thornburgh in the July 14, 2008 issue of TIME, the lack of progress at ground zero should worry Americans. Rebuilding Ground Zero was to be a grand show of American defiance. But seven years later this grand statement is no more than a stammer. A recent progress report states that the landlord admitted that every part of the project is over budget and behind schedule. (Sounds like rebuilding Iraq with the no bid contractors, doesn't it?) According to the report, it will take several months just to map out a new timeline. (again, hauntingly similar to the situation in Iraq) Thornburgh describes the mess thusly:
"The 16 acre site is a tangle of more than 100 contractors and subcontractors ... Lower Manhattan is in danger of becoming a metaphor for America's sluggish response to our most pressing economic challenges. . . While China is spending 9% of its GDP on Infrastructure, Amerians lose $9 billion a year in productivity from flight delays alone. . . China has built the equivalent of several world Trade Center sites in its furious run-up to the olympics."
A WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 17 nations around the world finds a widespread perception that widows and divorced women are treated worse than other women. In only two countries do a majority say that there is no discrimination against widows and in only one country does a majority say there is no discrimination against divorced women. Read More »
Violence Against Women: A Fact Sheet
In the US, a woman is raped every 6 minutes; a woman is battered every 15 seconds. In North Africa, 6,000 women are genitally mutilated each day. This year, more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China. 200 women in Bangladesh will be horribly disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid. More than 7,000 women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in disputes over dowries. Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women's bodies for individual gratification or political ends. Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women. (Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill Treatment of Women, Amnesty International, 2001) Read More »
In the US, a woman is raped every 6 minutes; a woman is battered every 15 seconds. In North Africa, 6,000 women are genitally mutilated each day. This year, more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China. 200 women in Bangladesh will be horribly disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid. More than 7,000 women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in disputes over dowries. Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women's bodies for individual gratification or political ends. Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women. (Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill Treatment of Women, Amnesty International, 2001) Read More »
Here is a list of Woman who have offered us something
http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/figures.htm
Historical Figures
denotes Ohio figure
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) - Wife of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States and mother of John Quincy Adams, 6th President. Known for her letters and opinions on society.
Jane Addams (1860-1935) - Social Activist, founder of Hull House, charter member of the NAACP, Nobel Peace Prize winner and labor union organizer.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) - Seamstress, servant, teacher, Civil War nurse, and finally, author and novelist.
Marian Anderson (1902-1995) - First African American to sing leading role with Metropolitan Opera, delegate to U.N.
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) - Napoleon of the women's suffrage movement, mother of the 19th Amendment, abolitionist.
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) - African-American international star, civil rights activist, World War II heroine.
Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931) - African-American educator, newspaperwoman, anti-lynching campaigner, founder NAACP.
Clara Barton (1821-1912) - Civil War nurse, founder of the American Red Cross.
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) African-American educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, Presidential advisor, recipient of Spingarn Medal.
Sarah Bolton (1841-1916) - Noted Cleveland author of biographies, poetry and a temperance novel.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) - Groundbreaking photo-journalist and author
Mary Elizabeth Bowser ( 1839-?) - African-American Union spy in the Confederate White House.
Belle Boyd (1844-1900) - Confederate spy during the Civil War.
Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown (1867-1932) - Titanic survivor and a woman who was determined to break the rules of "high society."
Eliza Bryant (1827-1907) - African-American founder of the The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People.
Abbie Burgess (Grant) (1839-1892) - Lighthouse keeper at Matinicus Rock and Whitehead Light Stations in Maine, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Cannary (1852-1903) - A lone woman in the wilds of the Rocky Mountain west
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) - Marine biologist, science writer, and environmentalist.
Rebecca Carter (1766-1827) - Pioneer woman of Cleveland.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) African-American born pioneer journalist and lecturer.
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) - Suffragette, founder of the League of Women Voters.
Cassie L. Chadwick (1857-1907) - Most infamous Cleveland financial con-artist.
Bessie Coleman (1893-1926) - First African-American woman to get pilot's license.
Dorothy Dandridge (1923-1965) - Actress, singer and dancer. Star of Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess.
Isadora Duncan (1875-1929) - Mother of modern dance.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) - Aviatrix.
Mary Fields (1832?-1914) - African-American entrepreneur, stagecoach driver, pioneer.
Diana Fletcher (circa 1830's) - Daughter of a former slave father and Kiowa mother, activist, taught in black Cherokee school.
Dorothy Fuldheim (1893-1989) - Jewish-American news journalist and television broadcaster; developed format for television news programming.
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918) - Wife of James Garfield, 20th President of the United States was First Lady for six months when her husband was assassinated. "Crete" returned home to Lawnfield in Mentor where her life continued in a non-traditional way.
Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) - African-American delegate to the U.N., opera singer, speaker and educator.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) - Vilified in her day as the "most dangerous woman in America," this Russian emigrant earned her title, “Queen of the Anarchists” as labor leader, lecturer, writer, women’s rights activist and free love advocate.
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (1826-1902) - Wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, was a determined woman who despite family objections married the man she loved. Outspoken, she also created her own plans for ending the Civil War and holding a secret Presidential Inauguration.
Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1890) - African-American writer, abolitionist and educator.
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) - African-American sharecropper turned civil rights worker and founder of the MS Freedom Democratic Party.
Florence Harding (1860-1924) - Wife of Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States, the first presidential wife able to vote for her husband. Scandal plagued this First Lady throughout her life.
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison (1832-1892) - Wife of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, was the first president-general of the newly formed DAR. An accomplished watercolorist, she designed and painted the Harrison state china and organized the White House china collection.
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (1831-1889) - Wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States, was the first presidential wife to have a college degree. She originated the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
Sally Hemings (1773-1835) - African American who sacrificed her freedom from slavery for the love of President Thomas Jefferson.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USNR (1906-1992) - Computer pioneer and the oldest officer in active duty when she retired in 1986.
Hedda Hopper (1890-1966) - In the golden age of Hollywood, Hedda could make or break careers. Gossip was her business and J. Edgar Hoover was her penpal.
Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869-1950) - Founder of the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Music Settlement House.
Jane Edna Hunter (1882-1971) - African-American social worker, attorney, founder of Phyllis Wheatley Association of Cleveland.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) - African-American writer from The Harlem Group, influenced Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) ��" A Puritan woman who defied the male-dominated Massachusetts Bay Colony and after banishment helped settle Rhode Island and New York.
Mahalia Jackson (1912-1972) - Extraordinary gospel singer and the first African-American woman to gain national acclaim for gospel music.
Rebecca Jackson ( 1795-1871) - African-American eldress of the Shaker sect.
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) - African-American escaped slave, author and abolitionist.
“Mother” Mary Harris Jones (1837-1930) - Irish immigrant who lost her family to yellow fever and became the self-proclaimed mother and “hell-raiser” for the downtrodden American laborer, especially children.
Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) - African-American international vocal prima donna of late 19th century, favorite of George Bernard Shaw and several presidents.
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) - African-American orator and Congresswoman.
Elizabeth Keckley (1820-?) Personal maid, best friend and confidant to Mary Todd Lincoln. Wrote tell-all book after leaving Mrs. Lincoln's employ.
Marie LaVeau (1796?-1863?) - African-American Voodoo Queen of New Orleans and famous herbalist.
Edmonia Lewis ( 1843-?) - First successful African-American sculptor.
Ida Lewis (1842-1913) - Heroic lighthouse keeper of Rhode Island, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) - Wife of President Abraham Lincoln, misrepresented by popular history and maligned by her peers.
Jenny Lind (1820-1887) - Swedish international opera star, brought to U.S. by P.T. Barnum in the 1850s.
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927) - Founder of the American Girl Scouts.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) - Playwright, U.S. Congresswoman and ambassador to Italy.
Barbara Mabrity (1782-1867) - Lighthouse keeper in Key West, Florida, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Dolley Madison (1768-1849) - First Lady and doyen of Washington society
Biddy Mason (1818-1891) - Entrepreneur, one of first African-American women to own land in California.
Rachel Agnes Mason (1867-1903) An Irish immigrant whose family came to America in 1788 because of religious conflict.
Flora Stone Mather (1852-1910) - Cleveland philanthropist, founder of Flora Stone Mather college at Western Reserve University for women. Sponsored Goodrich House for urban children.
Ida Saxton McKinley (1847-1907) - Wife of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, developed a unique way of coping with her epileptic seizures during her public appearances as First Lady.
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) - Astronomer and professor at Vassar College. First female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) - Russian born New York sculptor famous for her shadow box, wall sculptures and her flamboyant personality.
Annie Oakley (1860-1926) - World famous markswoman from Ohio.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) - Famed American artist who defied convention in both her art and her private life.
Louella Parsons (1893-1965) - Hollywood gossip columnist, who dominated Hollywood's Golden Era. Louella's relationship with William Randoph Hearst and her own three marriages made her life as stormy as any Hollywood movie.
Alice Paul (1885-1977) - The woman who rescued the woman suffrage movement (1910) and made sure women got the vote.
Mrs. George (Hannah?) Peake (1755-18??) - First African-American settler of Cleveland.
Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) (1754-1832) - Born Mary Ludwig, this revolutionary heroine followed the Continental Army for more than 3 years, doing what was needed to free the colonies from the tyranny of England.
Eleanor Anna Roosevelt (1884-1962) - Wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, first activist First Lady
Rebecca Rouse (1799-1887) - Cleveland humanitarian, temperance advocate, abolitionist, founder of Beech Brook.
Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) - African-American Olympic Gold Medalist.
Rose Bianco Salvatore (1900-1993) - Italian immigrant during the "Great Wave" coming to America.
Belle Sherwin (1868-1955) - Cleveland suffragist, President of League of Women Voters, social reformer.
Margaret Skapes (1892-1968) - Immigrant from Greece, suffragette.
Bessie Smith (1894-1937) - African-American blues singer.
Valaida Snow (190?-1956) - African-American band leader and trumpet player.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) First president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
Belle Starr (1848-1889) - Confederate sympathizer and western frontierswoman and outlaw.
Susan McKinney Steward (1848-1918) - First female African-American doctor in New York State.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Annie Sullivan (1866-1936) - Helen Keller's teacher.
Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943) - Wife of William H. Taft, 27th President of the United States, always longed to live in the White House. Known for planting Washington D.C.’s legendary cherry trees.
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) - First African-American U.S. Army nurse during the Civil War.
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) - African-American lecturer, suffragette, civil rights leader.
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) (1797-1883) - African-American abolitionist, Civil War nurse, suffragette.
Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913) - Underground Railroad conductor, Army scout, African-American suffragette.
Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900) - Crazy Bet, an abolitionist in the South during the Civil War, who feigned insanity to help free slaves and help the Union Army.
Rosetta Wakeman (1843-1864) - Posed as a male to serve in Union Army during Civil War.
Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919) - African-American entrepreneur, millionaire and philanthropist.
Hazel Mountain Walker (1900-1980) - African-American attorney, school principal, actress at Karamu
Katherine Walker (1846-1931) - Lighthouse keeper at Robin's Reef, New York, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) - Prisoner of war during the Civil War, writer, doctor, fashion trend-setter and the only female to receive the Medal of Honor.
Mae West (1892-1980) First to earn a million dollars in the movie business.
Phillis Wheatley (175?-1784) - First noted African-American woman poet.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - Famed children’s author and “storyteller of the prairie.”
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) - First woman to run for President, center of a scandal that rocked the nation.
http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/figures.htm
Historical Figures
denotes Ohio figure
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) - Wife of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States and mother of John Quincy Adams, 6th President. Known for her letters and opinions on society.
Jane Addams (1860-1935) - Social Activist, founder of Hull House, charter member of the NAACP, Nobel Peace Prize winner and labor union organizer.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) - Seamstress, servant, teacher, Civil War nurse, and finally, author and novelist.
Marian Anderson (1902-1995) - First African American to sing leading role with Metropolitan Opera, delegate to U.N.
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) - Napoleon of the women's suffrage movement, mother of the 19th Amendment, abolitionist.
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) - African-American international star, civil rights activist, World War II heroine.
Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931) - African-American educator, newspaperwoman, anti-lynching campaigner, founder NAACP.
Clara Barton (1821-1912) - Civil War nurse, founder of the American Red Cross.
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) African-American educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, Presidential advisor, recipient of Spingarn Medal.
Sarah Bolton (1841-1916) - Noted Cleveland author of biographies, poetry and a temperance novel.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) - Groundbreaking photo-journalist and author
Mary Elizabeth Bowser ( 1839-?) - African-American Union spy in the Confederate White House.
Belle Boyd (1844-1900) - Confederate spy during the Civil War.
Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown (1867-1932) - Titanic survivor and a woman who was determined to break the rules of "high society."
Eliza Bryant (1827-1907) - African-American founder of the The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People.
Abbie Burgess (Grant) (1839-1892) - Lighthouse keeper at Matinicus Rock and Whitehead Light Stations in Maine, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Cannary (1852-1903) - A lone woman in the wilds of the Rocky Mountain west
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) - Marine biologist, science writer, and environmentalist.
Rebecca Carter (1766-1827) - Pioneer woman of Cleveland.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) African-American born pioneer journalist and lecturer.
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) - Suffragette, founder of the League of Women Voters.
Cassie L. Chadwick (1857-1907) - Most infamous Cleveland financial con-artist.
Bessie Coleman (1893-1926) - First African-American woman to get pilot's license.
Dorothy Dandridge (1923-1965) - Actress, singer and dancer. Star of Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess.
Isadora Duncan (1875-1929) - Mother of modern dance.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) - Aviatrix.
Mary Fields (1832?-1914) - African-American entrepreneur, stagecoach driver, pioneer.
Diana Fletcher (circa 1830's) - Daughter of a former slave father and Kiowa mother, activist, taught in black Cherokee school.
Dorothy Fuldheim (1893-1989) - Jewish-American news journalist and television broadcaster; developed format for television news programming.
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918) - Wife of James Garfield, 20th President of the United States was First Lady for six months when her husband was assassinated. "Crete" returned home to Lawnfield in Mentor where her life continued in a non-traditional way.
Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) - African-American delegate to the U.N., opera singer, speaker and educator.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) - Vilified in her day as the "most dangerous woman in America," this Russian emigrant earned her title, “Queen of the Anarchists” as labor leader, lecturer, writer, women’s rights activist and free love advocate.
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (1826-1902) - Wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, was a determined woman who despite family objections married the man she loved. Outspoken, she also created her own plans for ending the Civil War and holding a secret Presidential Inauguration.
Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1890) - African-American writer, abolitionist and educator.
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) - African-American sharecropper turned civil rights worker and founder of the MS Freedom Democratic Party.
Florence Harding (1860-1924) - Wife of Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States, the first presidential wife able to vote for her husband. Scandal plagued this First Lady throughout her life.
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison (1832-1892) - Wife of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, was the first president-general of the newly formed DAR. An accomplished watercolorist, she designed and painted the Harrison state china and organized the White House china collection.
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (1831-1889) - Wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States, was the first presidential wife to have a college degree. She originated the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
Sally Hemings (1773-1835) - African American who sacrificed her freedom from slavery for the love of President Thomas Jefferson.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USNR (1906-1992) - Computer pioneer and the oldest officer in active duty when she retired in 1986.
Hedda Hopper (1890-1966) - In the golden age of Hollywood, Hedda could make or break careers. Gossip was her business and J. Edgar Hoover was her penpal.
Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869-1950) - Founder of the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Music Settlement House.
Jane Edna Hunter (1882-1971) - African-American social worker, attorney, founder of Phyllis Wheatley Association of Cleveland.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) - African-American writer from The Harlem Group, influenced Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) ��" A Puritan woman who defied the male-dominated Massachusetts Bay Colony and after banishment helped settle Rhode Island and New York.
Mahalia Jackson (1912-1972) - Extraordinary gospel singer and the first African-American woman to gain national acclaim for gospel music.
Rebecca Jackson ( 1795-1871) - African-American eldress of the Shaker sect.
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) - African-American escaped slave, author and abolitionist.
“Mother” Mary Harris Jones (1837-1930) - Irish immigrant who lost her family to yellow fever and became the self-proclaimed mother and “hell-raiser” for the downtrodden American laborer, especially children.
Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) - African-American international vocal prima donna of late 19th century, favorite of George Bernard Shaw and several presidents.
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) - African-American orator and Congresswoman.
Elizabeth Keckley (1820-?) Personal maid, best friend and confidant to Mary Todd Lincoln. Wrote tell-all book after leaving Mrs. Lincoln's employ.
Marie LaVeau (1796?-1863?) - African-American Voodoo Queen of New Orleans and famous herbalist.
Edmonia Lewis ( 1843-?) - First successful African-American sculptor.
Ida Lewis (1842-1913) - Heroic lighthouse keeper of Rhode Island, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) - Wife of President Abraham Lincoln, misrepresented by popular history and maligned by her peers.
Jenny Lind (1820-1887) - Swedish international opera star, brought to U.S. by P.T. Barnum in the 1850s.
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927) - Founder of the American Girl Scouts.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) - Playwright, U.S. Congresswoman and ambassador to Italy.
Barbara Mabrity (1782-1867) - Lighthouse keeper in Key West, Florida, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Dolley Madison (1768-1849) - First Lady and doyen of Washington society
Biddy Mason (1818-1891) - Entrepreneur, one of first African-American women to own land in California.
Rachel Agnes Mason (1867-1903) An Irish immigrant whose family came to America in 1788 because of religious conflict.
Flora Stone Mather (1852-1910) - Cleveland philanthropist, founder of Flora Stone Mather college at Western Reserve University for women. Sponsored Goodrich House for urban children.
Ida Saxton McKinley (1847-1907) - Wife of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, developed a unique way of coping with her epileptic seizures during her public appearances as First Lady.
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) - Astronomer and professor at Vassar College. First female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) - Russian born New York sculptor famous for her shadow box, wall sculptures and her flamboyant personality.
Annie Oakley (1860-1926) - World famous markswoman from Ohio.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) - Famed American artist who defied convention in both her art and her private life.
Louella Parsons (1893-1965) - Hollywood gossip columnist, who dominated Hollywood's Golden Era. Louella's relationship with William Randoph Hearst and her own three marriages made her life as stormy as any Hollywood movie.
Alice Paul (1885-1977) - The woman who rescued the woman suffrage movement (1910) and made sure women got the vote.
Mrs. George (Hannah?) Peake (1755-18??) - First African-American settler of Cleveland.
Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) (1754-1832) - Born Mary Ludwig, this revolutionary heroine followed the Continental Army for more than 3 years, doing what was needed to free the colonies from the tyranny of England.
Eleanor Anna Roosevelt (1884-1962) - Wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, first activist First Lady
Rebecca Rouse (1799-1887) - Cleveland humanitarian, temperance advocate, abolitionist, founder of Beech Brook.
Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) - African-American Olympic Gold Medalist.
Rose Bianco Salvatore (1900-1993) - Italian immigrant during the "Great Wave" coming to America.
Belle Sherwin (1868-1955) - Cleveland suffragist, President of League of Women Voters, social reformer.
Margaret Skapes (1892-1968) - Immigrant from Greece, suffragette.
Bessie Smith (1894-1937) - African-American blues singer.
Valaida Snow (190?-1956) - African-American band leader and trumpet player.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) First president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
Belle Starr (1848-1889) - Confederate sympathizer and western frontierswoman and outlaw.
Susan McKinney Steward (1848-1918) - First female African-American doctor in New York State.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Annie Sullivan (1866-1936) - Helen Keller's teacher.
Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943) - Wife of William H. Taft, 27th President of the United States, always longed to live in the White House. Known for planting Washington D.C.’s legendary cherry trees.
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) - First African-American U.S. Army nurse during the Civil War.
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) - African-American lecturer, suffragette, civil rights leader.
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) (1797-1883) - African-American abolitionist, Civil War nurse, suffragette.
Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913) - Underground Railroad conductor, Army scout, African-American suffragette.
Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900) - Crazy Bet, an abolitionist in the South during the Civil War, who feigned insanity to help free slaves and help the Union Army.
Rosetta Wakeman (1843-1864) - Posed as a male to serve in Union Army during Civil War.
Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919) - African-American entrepreneur, millionaire and philanthropist.
Hazel Mountain Walker (1900-1980) - African-American attorney, school principal, actress at Karamu
Katherine Walker (1846-1931) - Lighthouse keeper at Robin's Reef, New York, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard.
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) - Prisoner of war during the Civil War, writer, doctor, fashion trend-setter and the only female to receive the Medal of Honor.
Mae West (1892-1980) First to earn a million dollars in the movie business.
Phillis Wheatley (175?-1784) - First noted African-American woman poet.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - Famed children’s author and “storyteller of the prairie.”
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) - First woman to run for President, center of a scandal that rocked the nation.
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