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The Women's L Project Blog
Mary Jane Richardson Jones
Mary Jane Richardson Jones (1819-1910) grew up in Tennessee, a free Black person. When she and her husband traveled to Chicago in 1844, they were detained under suspicion that they...
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Jane Byrne
When Jane Byrne (1933-2014) ran for mayor, her opponent’s campaign team portrayed her as a "shrill, charging, vindictive person—and nothing makes a woman look worse." Several factors (including the city’s...
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born in 1954 in rural Mississippi and raised in Milwaukee. She grew up in poverty and was the victim of abuse. After moving to Memphis to live...
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Willye B. White
Willye B. White (1939-2007) was raised by her grandparents in Greenwood, Mississippi. When she was ten years old, she started chopping cotton—a job she didn’t like at all. Success at...
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Eunice Tietjens
Eunice Tietjens (1884-1944) attended Evanston public schools for her elementary education but received her higher education in Europe. Living abroad must have whetted her appetite to travel—at various times in...
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Mellody Hobson
Mellody Hobson (born 1969) grew up in Chicago and was raised by her mother, a realtor. After graduating from Princeton, she began working at Ariel Investments eventually becoming its president...
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Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Moseley Braun (born 1947), the daughter of a Chicago police office and a medical technician, grew up on Chicago’s South Side. After earning her undergraduate degree from the University...
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Margery Carlson
When their baby girl was born, John and Nellie Carlson named her after a flower—a Marguerite daisy, to be specific. Did they somehow know that their daughter, Margery Carlson (1892-1985),...
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Fannie Hagen Emanuel
Fannie Hagen Emanuel (1871-1934), a native of Ohio, had two remarkable vocations in Chicago. As a social reformer, she founded the Emanuel House on the South Side. This settlement house...
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Lorraine Morton
Lorraine Morton (1918-2018), born and raised in North Carolina, moved to Evanston in 1953 and began her teaching career in the city’s public school district. At that time, Evanston elementary...
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Ruth Page
Ruth Page (1899-1991), born in Indianapolis, became a legendary ballerina and choreographer of international renown. She made her professional debut on Broadway at the age of 18 which was followed...
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Lorraine Hansberry
When Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was eight years old, her middle class family moved from Chicago's “Black Belt” to one of the city's restrictive covenant neighborhoods (i.e., neighborhoods where white homeowners...
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