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The Book of Gutsy Women

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by Hillary Rodham Clinton


  Ephron, Nora, 380

  Equal Pay Act (1963), 211

  Equal Rights Amendment, 30–31, 173, 175, 332–33, 423–24

  Ernman, Malena, 125

  Escobar, Pablo, 311

  Esenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich, 20, 21

  Espinosa, Patricia, 125–26

  Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act, 77

  Evers, Medgar, 268, 383

  Evers-Williams, Myrlie, 268

  Faubus, Orval, 79–80

  Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 376

  Felix, Allyson, 438

  Ferraro, Geraldine, 337, 344–46, 344

  Ferrera, America, 317–20, 317

  Figueres, Christiana, 125–26

  Finer, Jonathan, 301

  First Amendment, 404

  Flint, Michigan, drinking water, 191–94

  Flynn, Michael, 405

  Ford, Betty, 173–75, 173

  Ford, Gerald, 174

  Fossey, Dian, 112–13

  Foudy, Julie, 212

  Frank, Anne (Annelies Marie), 43–45, 43

  Franklin, Aretha, “Respect,” 361

  Freedom of Information Act, 332

  Freedom Riders (1960s), 297, 383

  Friedan, Betty, 8–9, 211, 333

  Fugitive Slave Act, 14

  Fulton, Sybrina, 292

  Galdikas, Biruté, 112–13

  Gandhi, Mahatma (Mohandas K.), 37

  Ganguly, Kadambini, 172

  Gay, Roxane, 9

  Gbowee, Leymah, 275, 277–79, 358

  George III, king of England, 130

  Gies, Miep, 44

  Giffords, Gabby, 287, 287, 288–89, 293, 295

  Gillard, Julia, x

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, x

  Girl Scouts/Girl Guides, 61–64, 409

  Girls Who Code, 409

  Glaser, Elizabeth, 178

  Global Eradication of Polio Initiative, 197

  Goldwater, Barry, 33

  González, Emma, 300, 302–3

  Goodall, Jane, 109–10, 109

  Good Friday Agreement (1998), 275, 276

  Goucher, Kara, 438

  Gould, Stephen Jay, 111

  Graham, Katharine, 378–80, 378

  Graham, Martha, 174

  Graham, Philip, 379, 380

  Grandin, Temple, 392–94, 392

  Grant, Ulysses S., 245

  Great Depression, 34, 36, 37, 73, 254, 339, 375

  Green, Edith, 82, 86

  Green, Ernest, 81, 91

  Green Belt Movement, 114, 115–16, 117–18

  Greer, Germaine, 211

  Grimké, Angelina, 417

  Grimké, Sarah, 417

  Guttenberg, Fred, 297

  Guttenberg, Jaime, 297

  Haddonfield Fortnightly, 60

  Hall, Ruby Bridges, 89–91, 89

  Hamer, Fannie Lou, 333

  Hamilton, Alexander, 349

  Hanna-Attisha, Mona, 191, 192–94

  Harjo, Joy, xii

  Harper, Frances E. W., 419

  Harrison, Benjamin, 419

  Hatshepsut (pharaoh), 7

  Haughey, Sharon, 276–77

  Heldman, Gladys, 211

  Height, Dorothy, xi, 243–44, 243, 246

  Heldman, Gladys, 211

  Heller, Becca, 300–302, 300

  Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act (2001), 346

  Henry, Barbara, 90

  Herschel, Caroline, 129–31, 129, 132

  Herschel, Isaac, 129

  Herschel, William, 130

  Himmler, Heinrich, 41

  Hitler, Adolf, 41, 43, 67

  HIV/AIDS, 178, 179, 186–87, 322

  Holtzman, Elizabeth, 348

  Hope Village, Somalia, 183, 184

  Hopper, Grace, 133, 134, 135

  Hoxie, Walter John, 63

  Huerta, Dolores, 271–74, 271

  Huffman, Sarah, 217

  Hu Jintao, 181

  Hussein, Saddam, 193

  Hutchinson, Asa, 81

  Isle, Anna, 129

  Indian Citizenship Act (1924), 257

  International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), 236–37, 238

  International Red Cross, 168

  International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), 301–2

  Irish Congress of Trade Unions, 276

  Iroquois Confederacy, 417

  ISIS (Islamic State), 435–36

  Jacobs, Jane, 104–6, 104, 107–8

  James, William, 250

  Japanese Americans, in wartime internment camps, 93

  Jeffrey, Mildred, 333

  Jemison, Mae, 157–59, 157

  Joan of Arc, 7–8, 24

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 81, 85, 244, 348, 384

  Johnson, Virginia, 18, 22–23

  Johnstone Bekink, Mattie, 45

  Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, 144–45

  Joliot-Curie, Irène, 140, 142, 144–45

  Jordan, Barbara, 347, 348–50

  Joyner, Al, 50

  Joyner, Florence “FloJo” Griffith, 50, 51, 204

  Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, 50–52, 50, 204

  Kahlo, Frida, xi

  Kaplan, Roberta “Robbie,” 386, 388

  Karman, Tawakkol, 275, 278–79

  Kasen, Judith, 387

  Kassebaum, Nancy, 354

  Kaur, Jind, 426

  Keller, Father James, 67

  Keller, Helen, 24–28, 24

  Kelley, Virginia (Grandma Ginger), 3, 11, 178

  Kelly, Mark, 289

  Kendrick, Pearl, 197

  Kennedy, John F., 45, 102, 211, 268

  Kennedy, Robert F., 273, 347

  Kersee, Bob, 51

  Khepra, Nza-Ari, 294, 295–96

  Kies, Mary, 137

  King, Bernice, 269

  King, Billie Jean, 209–12, 209

  King, Coretta Scott, 266–70, 266

  King, Elizabeth, 5

  King, Gayle, 6

  King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 23, 80–81, 115, 244, 262, 267–69, 348, 383, 400

  Knight, Margaret E., 136–37, 139, 256

  Kramer, Larry, 178

  Krim, Mathilde, 176–78, 176

  Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 72, 74, 79, 254, 260, 262

  Kwan, Michelle, 218–21, 218

  Ladies’ Climbing Club (Joshi-Tohan), 206

  Lamarr, Hedy, 146–48, 146

  Lawick, Hugo van, 111

  Laye, Camara, 315

  League of Women Voters, 423

  Leakey, Louis, 110, 112, 113

  Lee, Sheila Jackson, 244

  L’Engle, Madeleine, 11

  Leslie, Lisa, 87

  Levy, Ariel, 235–36

  Lewis, Sarah, 194

  Liberian Civil War, First (1989), 277

  Lin, Maya, 399–401, 399

  Lincoln, Abraham, 168, 382

  Lipinski, Tara, 220

  Little Rock Nine, 80, 81, 91, 383

  Lobo, Rebecca, 87–88

  Lovelace, Ada, 133–34, 133, 135

  Low, Juliette Gordon, 61–64, 61

  Lowe, Betty, 10

  Lowe, Katherine, x

  Luce, Henry, 36

  Lundestad, Geir, 48

  Lynch, Loretta, 404

  Maathai, Wangari, 114–18, 114

  Mathai, Wanjira, 117, 118

  Mabus, Ray, 156

  Maguire, Máiread, 275

  Malcolm X, 268

  Mandela, Nelson, 45, 238, 280, 281

  Mankiller, Wilma, 360–63, 360

  March for Our Lives, 297, 298

  March on Washington (1963), 264

  Marcolla, Farah, 302

  Maroney, McKayla, 240

  Márquez-Greene, Ana Grace, 289, 290

  Márquez-Greene, Nelba, 287, 287, 289–91, 293

  Marshall, Thurgood, 383

  Martin, Trayvon, 292

  Martinez, Esther, 75–77, 75

  Mathias, Charles, 352

  Matolengwe, Patricia, 282

  Mayer, Louis B., 147

/>   McBath, Lucy, 287, 287, 292–93

  McCartan, Joyce, 275, 276

  McCarthy, Joseph, 31–32, 105, 332

  McCloud, Patsy, 70

  McCloud, Samuel, 70

  McConnell, Mitch, 270

  McCormack, Inez, 276

  McDowell, Calvin, 249

  McFadden, Deborah, 31–33

  McFadden, Hannah, 33–34

  McFadden, Tatyana, 231–34, 231

  McGovern, George, 337, 348

  McKinnon, Kate, 398

  McLeod, Patsy and Samuel, 70–71

  McWilliams, Monica, 275, 276

  Melching, Molly, 188, 189–90

  Melching, Zoe, 189

  Menchú Tum, Rigoberta, 46–49, 46

  Meredith, James, 383

  Mertz, Barbara (Elizabeth Peters), 8

  Mikulski, Barbara, 351–55, 351

  Milholland, Inez, 247, 421

  Mink, Patsy, 82, 83–85, 86

  Mitchell, Arthur, 23

  Mitchell, Mrs. (teacher), 10–11

  Mohamed, Amina, 184

  Mohamed, Deqo, 184

  Moi, Daniel arap, 116

  Moku, Elizabeth, x

  Molloy, Parker, 237

  Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, 291, 299

  Mondale, Walter, 336

  Montaño, Alysia, 438

  Montessori, Maria, 65–67, 65, 69

  Moss, Thomas, 249, 419

  Mothers of the Movement, 292

  Motley, Constance Baker, 381–84, 381

  Mowlam, Mo, 276

  Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 227–30, 227

  Mukwege, Denis, 437

  Murad, Nadia, 435–37, 435

  MuslimGirl, 324–26

  Muslim Women’s Day, 326

  Mxenge, Griffiths, 281, 282

  Mxenge, Victoria, 280, 281–82

  Nalle, Charles, 18–19

  Nassar, Larry, 240

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 152–56, 157–59

  National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), 420, 421, 423

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 27, 73, 79, 138, 249, 250, 260, 261, 264, 382, 383, 384

  National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 73, 419

  National Council of Negro Women, 74

  National Domestic Workers Alliance, 283, 285

  National Industry Recovery Act, 376

  National Rifle Association (NRA), 289, 291, 292, 297

  National Woman’s Party (NWP), 421

  National Women’s Political Caucus, 333

  Native Americans, wartime relocation of, 257

  Native American voting rights, 417

  Negley, Keith, 172

  Nightingale, Florence, 163–65, 163

  Nineteenth Amendment, 73, 346, 416–17, 421–24

  Nixon, Richard M., 86, 332, 336, 347, 349–50, 378

  No Es Hora De Callar (Now Is Not the Time to Be Silent), 311, 312

  Northern Ireland Troubles, 275–77

  Nyad, Diana, 213–14, 213

  Obama, Barack, 93, 116, 220, 273, 295, 398, 403, 404

  Obama, Michelle, 312

  Obergefell, Jim, 387

  Ochoa, Ellen, 159

  O’Connor, Sandra Day, 6

  Ohanian, Alexis Olympia Jr., 224

  O’Keeffe, Georgia, xi

  O’Shaughnessy, Bridget, 232

  Oliver, Mary, 387

  O’Shaughnessy, Tam, 156

  Pankhurst, Christabel, 420

  Pankhurst, Emmeline, 420, 426

  Pape, Nina Anderson, 62

  Paralympic Games, 232–34

  Parkland, Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, 125, 292, 296–97, 299

  Parks, Raymond, 260, 264

  Parks, Rosa, 245, 259–65, 259

  Paul, Alice, 248, 420–22, 423–24

  Pavlova, Anna, 18–19, 18, 20–21, 22

  Paycheck Fairness Act, 354

  Peacemakers, the, 275–79, 275

  Pelosi, Nancy, 439

  Pendleton, Hadiya, 295

  Pentagon Papers, 378–79

  Peratrovich, Elizabeth, 256–58, 256

  Peratrovich, Roy, Jr., 257, 258

  Perey, Marguerite, 143

  Perkins, Frances, 373–77, 373

  Pinochet, Augusto, 364, 365, 366

  Planned Parenthood, 342–43

  Pomeroy, Claire, 196

  Poo, Ai-jen, 283–86, 283

  Price, Yetunde, 224

  Project Orange Tree, 295–96

  Quintero, Adrianna, 108

  Raisman, Aly, 239–40, 239

  Rapinoe, Megan, 216

  Raseboya, Violet, 237

  Reagan, Ronald, 40–41, 288, 353

  Reiss, Fraidy, 429–31, 429

  Richards, Ann, 339–43, 339, 349

  Richards, Cecile, 342–43

  Ride, Sally, x, 152, 153–56, 157, 158, 159

  Riggs, Bobby, 209–13

  Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation, 48

  Riley, Millie, 78

  Ríos Montt, Efraín, 48

  Roberts, Robin, 64

  Robinson, Mary, 276

  Rockwell, Norman, 90

  Rodham, Dorothy (Grandma Dorothy), 3, 3, 4, 6, 8, 117, 146, 204, 285, 393

  Roem, Danica, 368–70, 368

  Roe v. Wade, 175, 340

  Romée, Isabelle, 8

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 45, 244, 251–55, 251, 263

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 73, 83, 252–53, 254, 374, 375–77

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 252, 421–22

  Rowling, J. K., 223

  Royal Astronomical Society, 130–31, 132

  Rubin, Vera, 129, 131–32

  Ruby Bridges Foundation, 91

  Rudolph, Eric, 403

  Rudolph, Wilma, 201, 203–4

  Run for Something, 369–70

  Russell, Kathy, 418

  Rushin, Steve, 87–88

  Ryan, April, xii

  Sagar, Pearl, 276

  Salzner, Henry, 250

  Sandler, Bernice “Bunny,” 82, 85–86

  Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut, 289–90, 291, 293

  Saujani, Reshma, 407, 408–9

  Savitskaya, Svetlana, 154

  SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), 268

  Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), 281, 389–91

  Semenya, Caster, 235–38, 235

  Seneca Falls Convention, 413, 417

  September 11, 2001, attacks on U.S., 324, 325

  Sesame Street, 59, 68–69

  Sessions, Jeff, 270, 403

  Shackelford, Lottie, 9

  Shattuck, Allen, 257–58

  Shepard, Peggy, 104, 106–108

  Sheppard, Kate, 413

  Shriver, Eunice, 221

  Singh, Sophia Duleep, 425–28, 425

  Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, 278–79, 356–59, 356

  Skłodowska, Maria (Curie), 140

  Smith, Al, 375

  Smith, Clyde Harold, 30

  Smith, Edmund Kirby, 74

  Smith, Margaret Chase, 29–33, 29

  Smith, Orlee and Susie, 79

  Social Security, 373, 375, 376, 377

  SolarPuff, 121–22

  Sotomayor, Sonia, 6

  Souvestre, Marie, 252

  Special Olympics International, 220–21

  Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), 336–37

  Speirs, Randall, 76

  Spoor, Julia, 294, 299

  Sputnik, 152

  Spyer, Thea, 386, 388

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 239, 416

  Starr, Brenda (fict.), 5

  Steinem, Gloria, xii, 9, 274, 333, 380

  STEM education, 134–35, 155, 407, 409

  Stewart, Will, 249

  Stoll, David, 48

  Stroker, Ali, 321–23, 321

  Students Demand Action, 299

  Suffragists, 413–15, 416–24, 416, 425–28

  Sullivan, Ann
e, 25–26

  Supermajority, 286

  Swoopes, Sheryl, 87

  Tabei, Junko, 199–202, 199

  Tallchief, Maria, 18, 21–22, 23

  Taylor, Charles, 357, 358

  Taylor, John, 202

  Tektite I and II, 150

  Temple, Mary (Temple Grandin), 392–94, 392

  Tereshkova, Valentina, 154

  Terrell, Mary Church, 419–20

  Terrell, Robert Heberton, 419

  Tewa culture, 75–77

  Thomas, Clarence, 264

  Thunberg, Greta, 123–26, 123

  Thunberg, Svante, 125

  Thurmond, Strom, 270

  Till, Emmett, 262

  TIME’S UP, 320

  Title IX, 83, 85, 86–88, 210, 332, 337

  Tostan, Senegal, 189–90

  Treneer, Maurice, 147

  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 374

  “Trimates,” 112–13

  Truman, Harry S., 202, 253, 377

  Trump, Donald, 325, 402–5

  Truth, Sojourner (Isabella Baumfree), 16, 243, 244–46, 261

  Tsering, Ang, 207

  Tubman, Harriet (Araminta Ross), 12–17, 12, 261, 419

  Tucker, C. Delores, 244

  Turner, Ellis, 139, 256

  Tutu, Bishop Desmond, 280

  Tyson, Cicely, 74, 246

  Uhlenbeck, Karen Keskulla, 135

  Unchained At Last, 429

  Underground Railroad, 15, 17

  United Farm Workers Union (UFW), 272, 273, 274

  United Nations (UN), 74, 125, 253–54, 367

  United Negro College Fund, 74

  United States v. Windsor, 386

  Uranus (planet), discovery of, 130

  U.S. National Fencing Team, 228–29, 230

  U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, 87, 215, 216, 217

  Vaccinators, the, 195–98, 195

  Van Gieson, Hilda, x

  Victoria, queen of England, 425, 427

  Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 399–400

  Vital Voices, 181

  von Trapp, Maria, 39–42, 39

  von Trapp, Maria (stepdaughter), 42

  Voting Rights Act, 260, 348

  Voto Latino, 319

  Wadler, Naomi, 294, 297–98

  Wagner, Sally Roesch, 423

  Walker, Charles Joseph, 138

  Walker, Madam C. J. (Sarah Breedlove), 136, 137–39, 256

  Walker, Mary Edwards, 169, 171–72

  Walters, Barbara, 64

  Wambach, Abby, 215–17, 215

  Warren, Elizabeth, 270

  Washington, Booker T., 260, 418

  Washington, George, 349

  Watts, Shannon, 287, 287, 291, 292, 293

  WE ACT, 107

  Weber, Max, 250

  Weddington, Sarah, 340

  Weems, Carrie Mae, xi

  Weindruch, Elizabeth Fleming, 4, 10, 40, 87

  Weiss, Elaine, 423

  Wells, Ida B., 73, 247–50, 247, 419, 421

  “We Shall Overcome,” 391

  What Is Missing? (virtual memorial), 401

 

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