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Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973) A
suffragist, Rankin became the first female elected to the House of
Representatives in 1916. A Republican from Montana, she
campaigned on a platform of peace and voted against the United States'
entry into World War I.
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Annie
Rogers, aka: Della Moore, Maud Williams (18??-19??) - Born in
Texas
as Della Moore, Annie was working in
Fannie Porter's brothel in
San Antonio
when she met
Harvey Logan, better known as
Kid Curry. Though
Curry had a reputation as the most dangerous member of the
Wild Bunch, his affection for the slender, dark-haired girl seemed
genuine. They often "presented" themselves as man and wife, but it is
unknown if they were actually ever married. On July 3, 1901, the Kid,
along with
Ben Kilpatrick and O.C. Hanks robbed the Great Northern Coast
Railroad near Wagner,
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Annie Rogers was
Kid Curry's
best girl.
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Several months later, Annie was arrested on October 14th in Nashville,
Tennessee for passing bank notes that were stolen in the great
Northern robbery. Annie spent time in jail until she was acquitted on
June 18, 1902.
In the meantime,
Curry had also been arrested when he got into a bar fight in
Knoxville, Tennessee on December 13, 1901. Captured two days later, he was
still in jail when Rogers was released. In November, 1902, he was
convicted of multiple charges, including forging stolen bank notes and
sentenced to 130 years in prison. However, he escaped on June 27, 1903 and
a year later, he participated in robbing the Denver & Rio
Grande train near Parachute,
Colorado
on June 7, 1904. Two days later, a posse caught up with the
outlaws
and in the confrontation,
Logan was wounded. However, rather than go
to prison, he took his own life. He was 37 years old.
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Annie Rogers never saw
Harvey Logan again after she was acquitted of passing the bank notes
and lived the rest of her life as a law abiding citizen.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Political and social reformer, humanitarian, and outspoken crusader,
this First Lady championed causes of social justice worldwide and as a
United Nations delegate, chaired the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights.
Lillian Russell (1860–1922) - Russell
was a popular actress and singer.
Sacagawea
(1790?-1812?) A
Shoshone
Indian
woman,
she was captured by an enemy tribe who eventually sold her to a
French Canadian trapper she later married. In 1804,
Lewis and Clark,
her husband,
Toussaint
Charbonneau, was hired by the expedition as an interpreter.
Sacagawea
became an integral part of the expedition.
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Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Pioneering
crusader for the legalization of birth control, she battled the nation's
government and courts to open America's first birth control clinic,
founded the Natural Birth Control League, Planned Parenthood of America,
and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Sarah Jane "Sally" Newman Skull (1817-??) - Arriving in
Texas with the first settlers in
Stephen F. Austin's colony, Sally was known for her many husbands, her
horse trading, her aim with a pistol, her forceful language, and for
hauling cotton and critical supplies for the Confederacy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Known,
along with Susan B. Anthony, as one of the foremost figures of the
movement for women's equality, her outrage at being excluded from an
anti-slavery convention because of her gender inspired her to co-organize
the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. She
co-founded the newspaper Revolution, headed the National Woman
Suffrage Association for twenty years, and was the first president of the
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Belle Starr,
the "BanditQueen"
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Belle Starr,
aka: the “Outlaw Queen” (1848-1889)
- Born Myra Maybelle Shirley on February
5, 1848, on a farm near Carthage,
Missouri. When
she was still a young girl, the entire area would become embroiled in the
bloody
Kansas-Missouri border war. By the time she was a teenager, she had
hooked up with the likes of the
Younger brothers and
Jesse James.
She, herself, became
a horse thief,
outlaw
and part-time
prostitute,
and became the first woman to be tried for a serious crime by
Judge Isaac
Parker. She was sentenced to five months in prison for horse theft. In
1889 she was shot in the back and killed by an unknown assailant.
Belle was
buried at her cabin southwest of Porum,
Oklahoma
near the Eufuala Dam in Muskogee
County. Her
daughter Pearl had the following inscription engraved to her tombstone:
"Shed not
for her the bitter tear,
Nor give the heart to vain regret,
'Tis but the casket that lies here,
The gem that fills it sparkles yet."
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Lucy Stone (1818-1893) A
pioneering leader in the women suffrage movement, she founded the
American Woman Suffrage Association.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Author and poet, she wrote the biggest bestseller of the nineteenth
century, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel, which first appeared in
serialized version in
National Era magazine, was the first major American work in which a
black man appeared as the central hero.
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