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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
Georgia Woman of Achievement (1998; posthumous) Carrie Steele Logan ( c. 1829 – November 3, 1900) was an American philanthropist , founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States. The home, The Colored Orphanage of Atlanta , was officially dedicated on June 20, 1892.
Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. [2]
ZANESVILLE – Eight women will soon be honored after being named the 2024 Women of Achievement award winners. Muskingum Family Y Lifetime Service Award will be awarded to June Huey.
Josephine Mathewson Wilkins (September 30, 1893 – May 30, 1977) was an American social activist, president of the Georgia State League of Women Voters. She is a 2022 inductee into the Georgia Women of Achievement. [1]
The award “honors leaders in Columbus for their determination, generosity, courage, and fight for equity,” the organization says.
Six women were honored Thursday as the Columbus YMCA 2024 Women of Achievement, ... J. Averi Frost: executive director of the Central Ohio African American Chamber of Commerce.
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. [158] 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 ...