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The Women's L Project Blog
Vlasta Krsek
Growing up in Prague, Vlasta Krsek (1937-2020) was known as the “Shirley Temple of Czechoslovakia,” playing the accordion and dancing in several movies. World War II dramatically changed the life...
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Helene Heman Thorhaug
Helene Heman Thorhaug (1908-2003) did not live a conventional life. Born in Chicago, her father was a real estate developer nicknamed “Two Gun Heman” for his way of threatening renters...
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Susan Solomon
Chicago native Susan Solomon (born 1956) became interested in science after watching The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau as a young girl. That interest led her to study chemistry at...
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Anna Langford
Anna Langford (1917-2008), born in Ohio, lost her father as was an infant and her mother when she was eight years old. Her grandmother raised her until she was a...
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Anne Millar
Anne George Millar (1879-1973), raised in southern Illinois, studied at the University of Chicago. This included one undergraduate year in Rome at which time she became fluent in Italian. Millar...
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Lena McLin
Lena McLin (born 1928), a music teacher and composer, is rightly called ”the woman who launched a thousand careers.” Born in Atlanta, at the age of five she was sent...
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Mollie Netcher
When lifelong Chicagoan Mollie Netcher (1867-1954) got a job as a shop girl at The Boston Store, she never dreamed of marrying the store owner…or running one of Chicago’s largest...
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Leona Woods Marshall
Leona Woods Marshall (1919-1986) graduated from high school when she was 14 and graduated from the University of Chicago at the age of 19. Even though she was brilliant, Marshall...
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Pearl Hart
Pearl Hart (1890-1975), daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, grew up on Chicago’s West Side. Working as a stenographer, Hart had higher aspirations. She began taking evening classes at John Marshall...
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Ann Hardy
Ann Hardy (born 1933) grew up in Evanston. After graduating from high school in 1951, she attended Pomona College where she hoped to major in chemistry. She quickly learned that...
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; 1924-1963) was a versatile musician who performed in many styles including jazz, blues, R&B and pop music. She began as a gospel musician singing...
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Teresa Fraga
Teresa Fraga, born in 1944 in Mexico, came with her family to the US when she was 7 years old. In 1966 Fraga, her husband and their children moved to...
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