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Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [1] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. After having completed her travel, albeit mostly by ship, she built a media career around engagement with popular conception of what it was ...
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [ 49 ] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War , becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline.
Anna "Big Annie" Klobuchar Clemenc [a] (March 2, 1888 – July 27, 1956; pronounced "Clements" [4]) was an American labor activist. Born in Calumet, Michigan , she founded and served as president of the local Women's Auxiliary No. 15 of the Western Federation of Miners and was an active participant in the Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914 .
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during the two eras of activism in favor of women's rights. Some notable events:
Annie Murphy, a young American woman, gave birth to a son fathered by an Irish bishop decades ago. ... Brown & Co. in January 1993. Murphy remembered landing in Ireland for her book tour that year ...
Wilkins was born Annie Mabel Libby in Minot, Maine on December 13, 1891 to George and Sarah Stuart Libby; who were early settlers of the area from German, Scottish and English descent. [1] Her family lived on a farm that her grandfather started in Woodman Hill, West Minot. Wilkins dropped out of school by the sixth grade to help run the farm.
Annie Roshak, who led the Ashland University women's basketball team to the 2023 NCAA Division II national title, recently surpassed 2,000 career points. This season, Roshak leads 9-1 Ashland with ...
Lillian Frances Smith was born on August 4, 1871 [nb 1] in Coleville, California to Levi Woodbury Smith, Jr. and Rebecca T. Robinson, the third of four children. [1] [9] [10] Her parents were originally from Massachusetts and moved to Coleville in 1867.