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The Women's L Project Blog
Irene McCoy Gaines
Irene McCoy Gaines (1892-1964), born in Florida, moved with her family to Chicago where she attended elementary and high school. At the age of 16, she began her studies in...
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
A train ride in 1884 turned out to be a turning point in the life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) and the beginning of a journey which would last the...
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Martha Lavey
As a young girl growing up in Michigan, Martha Lavey (1957 - 2017) set her sights on becoming an actress. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at Northwestern, Lavey performed...
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Helen Valdez
Helen Valdez was a 30-something bilingual teacher at Chicago's Bowen High School in the 1980’s when she and fellow teacher Carlos Tortolero, frustrated by the lack of Mexican cultural education,...
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Helen Doria
Helen Doria (1951 – 2012) was a program creator for the Chicago Park District. She founded the Arts Partners in Residency program which led to mini-festivals that introduced Chicagoans to...
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Fritzie Fritzshall
Fritzie Fritzshall (1931 - 2021) was a young teenager when the Nazis invaded her Czechoslovakian town and deported the Jews to Auschwitz. Her mother and brothers were murdered but Fritzshall...
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Sonia Silva
Sonia Silva (born 1950), born and raised in Chicago, earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in public policy and urban planning. Having worked as a social...
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Viola Spolin
Viola Spolin (1906-1994) was born in Chicago to Russian Jewish immigrants. She had a lively childhood playing with her friends in her Humboldt Park neighborhood and performing plays with members...
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Hazel Johnson
When Hazel Johnson (1935-2011) and her husband moved to Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens neighborhood, she did not know that the public housing buildings there had been built over a toxic dump....
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Mary Thompson
Mary Thompson (1829-1895), born in upstate New York, graduated from the New England Female Medical College. After receiving further training at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and...
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Emma Lozano
Pastor and community activist Emma Lozano was born in Texas in 1955 where her father was a migrant farmworker. When she was a young girl, her family moved to Chicago....
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Vivian Gordon Harsh
Vivian Gordon Harsh (1890-1960) was born in Chicago, the daughter of Fisk University graduates. After earning an undergraduate degree in library sciences from Simmons College in Boston, she continued her studies...
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