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Remembering Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, which outlined the environmental damage caused by pesticides, sparked the environmental movement and made her one of the most influential women in modern America.

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  • woman basketball player

    Title IX, a 1972 law banning sex discrimination in schools, led to more athletics programs for women.

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    National Museum of Women in the Arts

    In 2007, the National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrated 20 years. Obstacles that confronted women artists in the past have not disappeared entirely, officials say.

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  • Milestones in Women's History

    • 1848
      • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

        Women's Rights Movement in America is sparked at convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Delegates issue a Declaration of Sentiments calling for equality with men, including the right to vote.

        Related article: Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention

    • 1849
      • Elizabeth Blackwell

        Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. She becomes a pioneer in women's education in medicine.

    • 1851
      • Sojourner Truth

        Abolitionist and former slave Sojourner Truth gives her famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. She was an eloquent champion of the rights of African Americans and women.

        Related article: Sojourner Truth
    • 1869

      • Wyoming, then a U.S. territory, is the first jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote. Many Wyoming legislators -- all male -- hope it will attract more single marriageable women to the region.

    • 1881
      • Clara Barton

        Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross, expanding on the original concept of the International Red Cross to include assisting in national disasters as well as wars.

        Related article: Clara Harlowe Barton

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  • Hedy Lemarr

    Women have been discovering, innovating and inventing throughout history.