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  2. List of American women's firsts - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905

  3. Category:1950s in women's history - Wikipedia

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    1950s in women's sport (27 C) W. Women in war 1945–1999 (5 C, 132 P) ... African-American women in the civil rights movement This page was last ...

  4. Esther Williams - Wikipedia

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    Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team.

  5. List of the most popular names in the 1950s in the United ...

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    Most Popular 1000 Names of the 1950s from the Social Security Administration This page was last edited on 7 November 2024, at 16:42 (UTC). Text is available under ...

  6. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [159] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

  7. Christine Jorgensen - Wikipedia

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    Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989), born George William Jorgensen Jr., [4] was an American actress, singer, recording artist, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.

  8. Kate Smith - Wikipedia

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    Smith was born on May 1, 1907, in Greenville, Virginia, to Charlotte 'Lottie' Yarnell (née Hanby) and William Herman Smith and grew up in Washington, D.C. [5] Her father owned the Capitol News Company, distributing newspapers and magazines in the greater D.C. area. [6] She was the youngest of three daughters, the middle child dying in infancy.

  9. List of female detective/mystery writers - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Dunant (born 1950) Sandy Frances Duncan (born 1942) Susan Dunlap (born 1943) Carola Dunn (born 1946) Mignon G. Eberhart (1899-1996) Kerstin Ekman (born 1933) Amelia Ellis (born 1977) Kathy Lynn Emerson; Maggie Estep (1963–2014) Janet Evanovich (born 1943) Elizabeth Eyre (pseudonym for Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey) Linda Fairstein ...