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Next up for Women's History Month is Elizabeth Blackwell. Now this is a women most of you have probably heard of but I thought she was important enough to mention because, can you imagine a world where women are NOT doctors?? I can't, but it did exist! And I'm forever grateful to Elizabeth Blackwell for opening up that door for all the women who followed after her.

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Alma Thomas is new to me but as soon as I read the quote before the start of the story I knew I would love her.

"Through color, I have sought to concentrate

on beauty and happiness, rather than on man's

inhumanity to man." - Alma Thomas (1970)

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Harriet Tubman definitely does not fall into the category of awesome women I'd never heard of, but the anniversary of her death was yesterday and I feel she deserves a spotlight. Tubman is most well known for being a conductor for the Underground Railroad but she was also a Union nurse, spy, and general during the civil war, founder of the Home for the Aged, and a suffragist.

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This month we're celebrating Women's History Month and I'm starting things off with the unbelievable story of Wilma Rudolph in "Wilma Unlimited" by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz.

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