Amelia to Zora : twenty-six women who changed the world

Author

Cynthia Chin-Lee

Call Number

• J 301.412 CHIN (CEN)

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Publication Information

Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2005.

Physical Description

32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents

• Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), pilot
• Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956), athlete
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1980), astronomer
• Dolores Huerta (1930-), union co-founder
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), first lady
• Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), painter
• Grace Hopper (1906-1992), computer scientist
• Helen Keller (1880-1968), advocate for the disabled
• Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), photographer
• Jane Goodall (1934-), naturalist
• Kristi Yamaguchi (1971-), ice skating champion
• Lena Horne (1917-), entertainer
• Maya Lin (1959-), architect
• Nawal El Sadaawi (1931-), women's rights activist
• Oprah Winfrey (1954-), talk show host
• Patricia Schroeder (1940-), congresswoman
• Quah Ah (1893-1949), artist
• Rachel Carson (1907-1964), environmentalist
• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-), democratic leader
• Mother Teresa (1910-1997), servant of the poor
• Ursula Le Guin (1929-), writer
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990), diplomat
• Wilma Mankiller (1945-), chief of the Cherokee nation
• Chen Xiefen (1883-1923), journalist
• Yoshiko Uchida (1922-1992), writer
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), anthropologist, writer.