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Back to SearchSparkle Moore and Libba Cotten - Pioneers in Music
Season 3 Episode 44
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Many women helped shape American music in the early 20th century.
Sparkle Moore's career was short but revolutionary.
Libba Cotten's ta…
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Meg Crane - Inventor That Changed Women's Lives
Season 3 Episode 43
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Before 1977 women had to go to a doctor and wait 2-4 weeks before knowing whether or not they were pregnant.
Meg Crane changed that fo…
1 week ago
Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
Season 3 Episode 42
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There are women who either in the moment or over decades decide to make a difference.
In this episode we talk about four women who in …
2 weeks ago
The Bizarre and Inspiring Story of Harriet Strong
Season 3 Episode 41
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Harriet Strong went from a frail, delicate Victorian woman to the mother of water conservation in America.
After decades of suppressio…
3 weeks ago
Anne Royall - First American Woman Investigative Journalist - 1820s
Season 3 Episode 40
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Anne Royall was born in 1769 in Baltimore but her family moved to Pennsylvania in 1772 to help settle a new town in what was then con…
4 weeks ago
Women Lighthouse Keepers in the 1800s!
Season 3 Episode 39
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Seriously, did you know that hundreds of women were lighthouse keepers in the 1800s? We didn't.
Ida Lewis and Kate Walker were two of…
1 month ago
Henrietta Wood - Born a Slave, Fought for Her Freedom and Won!
Season 3 Episode 38
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There's a lesson to be learned, especially today, from Henrietta Wood. Fight for your rights!
Henrietta was born a slave in 1818, fre…
1 month, 1 week ago
Charlotta Bass - One Woman Who Changed Los Angeles - A True American Hero
Season 3 Episode 37
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Los Angeles didn't start out as a democratic city supporting the rights of all people under the Constitution.
It took people like Char…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Katharine McCormick - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Part 2-Birth of the Birth Control Pill
Season 3 Episode 36
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Katharine McCormick did a lot to help women in the 1800s. She smuggled diaphragms from Europe to America by sewing them into the lin…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Katharine McCormick - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Part 1
Season 3 Episode 35
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Katharine McCormick accomplished amazing things in her lifetime.
The second woman to graduate from MIT in 1904.A major donator and inf…2 months ago