Women of inspiration

Women of inspiration
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With One United Voice: The First Stirrings of the Women's Rights Movement in 1850 | Nomadic Politics 19th Amendment, Suffragette Movement, Suffrage Movement, History Nerd, Women's History, Moments In Time, Equal Rights, Power Girl, White Photo
With One United Voice: The First Stirrings of the Women's Rights Movement in 1850
With One United Voice: The First Stirrings of the Women's Rights Movement in 1850 | Nomadic Politics
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On December 28, 1918 Countess Constance Markievicz is the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons (and she never accepted the seat!) ~ and WHAT an interesting character in Irish history was SHE!
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The O'Halloran Sisters. Took part in a rent boycott in July 1887 during the Irish Land War. Follow the link to read about them. They poured boiling water on attackers! Fended off cops with bayonets! They were seriously badass.
Flora Sandes-the only British woman to serve in combat in WWI. was the only British woman to officially serve as an infantryman in the war, the first woman to ever be commissioned as an officer in the Serbian army, and performed so many intense acts of badassitude that she's now considered a war hero in both her homeland and her adopted country of Serbia. Ww1 Women, Serbian Army, Heroic Women, Ww 1, British Women, Women Warriors, Brave Women, Lest We Forget
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Flora Sandes-the only British woman to serve in combat in WWI. was the only British woman to officially serve as an infantryman in the war, the first woman to ever be commissioned as an officer in the Serbian army, and performed so many intense acts of badassitude that she's now considered a war hero in both her homeland and her adopted country of Serbia.
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English suffragette Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst at work on the facia of the Women’s Social Defence League shop, London, 1912.
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
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WASP pilot Florence Shutsy ~
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A rare picture of Rosa Parks taking her hair down before bed.
Ten suffragettes advertising the Women's Social and Political Union, from a boat… Woman Suffrage, History Women
Ten suffragettes advertising the Women's Social and Political Union,...
Ten suffragettes advertising the Women's Social and Political Union, from a boat…
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12 Things You Didn't Know About Women In The First World War
Christabel Pankhurst (centre) and her mother Emmeline (left) founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in Manchester, 1903.
Suffragette, London, 1910 Lee Meriwether, Jean Renoir, Robert Mcginnis, Myrna Loy, Louise Brooks, Carole Lombard
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Suffragette, London, 1910
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Extraordinary Women Of History You Need To Know Now
Fe del Mundo, Harvard Medical School's first female student , was admitted because she was brilliant...and because they didn't realize she was a woman. Del Mundo founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. She attended nine years before enrollment was opened to women.
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Milena Jesenska, Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator, who refused to abandon her Jewish friends and was deported with several of them to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she died.