Lesson 5

Choose from the following Female Figures:

• Abigail Adams (1744-1818) - Wife of President John Q. Adams, advocate of women's rights
  
• Jane Addams (1860-1935) - Social Activist, founder of Hull House and 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 (1869-1931) - 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
  
• Eliza Bryant (1827-1907) - African-American founder of the The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People
  
• Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Canary (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
  
• 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 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
  
• Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) - African-American delegate to the U.N., opera singer, speaker and educator
  
• Abbie Burgess Grant (1839-1892) - Lighthouse keeper at Matinicus Rock and Whitehead Light Stations in Maine, commissioned by U.S. Coast Guard
  
• Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1890) - African-American writer, abolitionist and educator
  
• Sally Hemings (1773-1835) - African American who sacrificed her freedom from slavery for the love of President Thomas Jefferson
  
• 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
  
• Rebecca Jackson ( ??) - African-American eldress of the Shaker sect in Cleveland
  
• Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) - African-American escaped slave, author and abolitionist
  
• Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) - African-American international vocal prima donna of late 19th century, favorite of George Bernard Shaw and several presidents
  
• 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 during Civil War
  
• Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927) - Founder of the American Girl Scouts
  
• Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) - Playwright, U.S. Congresswoman and ambassador to Italy
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Susan McKinley (1848-1918) - First female African American doctor in New York State
  
• Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) - Astronomer and first female professor of Vassar College; inventor of marine navigational equipment
  
• 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
  
• Mrs. George (Hannah?) Peake (1755-18??) - First African-American settler of Cleveland
  
• Eleanor 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
  
• Margaret Skapes (1892-1968) - Immigrant from Greece, suffragette
  
• Bessie Smith (1894-1937) - African-American blues singer
  
• Valaida Snow (1900-1956) - African-American band leader and trumpet player
  
• Belle Sherwin (1868-1955) - Cleveland suffragist, President of League of Women Voters, social reformer
  
• Belle Starr (1848-1889) - Confederate sympathizer and western frontierswoman and outlaw
  
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  
• Annie Sullivan (1866-1936) - Helen Keller's teacher
  
• 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 and Civil War nurse, suffragette
  
• Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913) - Underground Railroad conductor, Army scout, African-American suffragette
  
• 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
  
• Phillis Wheatley (1754-1784) - First noted African-American woman poet
  

Assignment: Begin research on your selected figure, turn in a rough outline and brief statement of the medium you will be using i.e poster, essay, song.