Notes on presentations

Margaret Sanger

-Born in 1879

-Best known for her views on women's control of their own bodies

Deganawidah "The Great Peacemaker"

- He was all about Spiritual Healing and junk

- Made peace by starting the Iroquois Confederacy

Andrew Carnegie

-He was a steel tycoon

-Started working for a Railroad Company at 13

Eva Perone

-Born May 7, 1919

-Husband was President and she did woman's rights things.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

-American Abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

-Born 1811 

 Jon Keynes
-Very Socialist; believed the government should give people money
-Suffered from series of heart attacks

Frances Willard

-died at age 58

-woman's rights suffragist. helped move along 19th amendment

Eugene Debs

-born in 1855 in Indiana

-founding member of industrial workers of the world

Betty Williams

-cofounder of Community of Peace people

-won the nobel peace prize in 1976

Emmeline Pankhurst

-born in Manchester

-political activist for the women's suffrage movement.

Helena Rubinstein

-one of the world's richest women

-started helena rubinstein 

Edward Jenner

-born on may 17th 1749

-learned how to cure small pox from experimenting with cow pus

Dolores Huerta

-born in April 10, 1930

-Labor leader and civil rights activist

Rabindranath Tagore

-wrote over 2,500 sketches, songs, drawings, etc.

-died in 1941

Dorothy Hodgkin
-born in 1910
-developed x-ray crystallography