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Mary Fields (c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States.
Ana Cumpănaș or Anna Sage, nicknamed Woman in Red (1889 – April 25, 1947), was a Romanian prostitute and brothel owner in the American cities of Chicago and Gary, Indiana. She is best known for having assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation in tracking down gangster John Dillinger .
Edith Renfrow Smith (born July 14, 1914) is an American woman and supercentenarian who was the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa. [1] She is a granddaughter of slaves. [2] At age 108, she was designated a "superager" in a study by Northwestern University for her remarkable memory and longevity.
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Lucy E. Parsons (c. 1851 – March 7, 1942) was an American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist.Her early life is shrouded in mystery: she herself said she was of mixed Mexican and Native American ancestry; historians believe she was born to an African-American slave, possibly in Virginia, then married a black freedman in Texas.
Della Crewe was born in Racine, Wisconsin and moved to Waco, Texas around 1910. [1] There she worked as a manicurist. [2] She was known for being an experienced traveler, and a family member suggested she explore the country by motorcycle. [3] Her motorcycle for the trip was a Harley-Davidson two-speed twin-engine with an attached sidecar.
Linda Taylor (born Martha Louise White; c. January 1926 – April 18, 2002) was an American woman who committed extensive welfare fraud and, after the publication of an article in the Chicago Tribune in fall 1974, became identified as the "welfare queen".
Anne Eliza "Lizzy" Isham was born on January 25, 1862, in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Edward Swift Isham, an American lawyer and politician from Vermont, and Frances "Fannie" Burch. [3] Her father established a law firm with Robert Todd Lincoln, son of former US President Abraham Lincoln, called Isham, Lincoln & Beale in Chicago ...