Colla Voce "follow the voice"

Influential Women

Ann Bancroft, from MN first woman to cross the North Pole	Judy Garland, born in MN Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz
Georgia O'Keefe artist	Wilma Rudolph gold medal winner
Clara Barton founder of the Red Cross	Betsy Ross flag seamstress
Elizabeth Barrett Browning author	Dr. Mae Jemison first American woman in space
Jeanette Rankin first female Senator	Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan blind/deaf student and teacher
Rosa Parks civil rights activist	Marie Curie scientist, Nobel Prize winner
Susan B. Anthony suffragate, women's right to vote	Christa McAuliffe first woman teacher in space
Pearl Bailey singer, "Hello Dolly"	Mother Teresa Nobel Peace Prize for giving and service
Clara Schumann composer, child prodigy	Amelia Earhart pilot
Harriet Tubman underground railroad	Elizabeth Blackwell first woman doctor in the US
Elizabeth Stanton women's emancipation	Florence Nightingale nurse
Mary Kay Ash make-up kingdom	Laura Ingalls Wilder writer
Sojourner Truth slavery and freedom	Maya Angelo poet
Sacajawea travelled with Lewis and Clark	Emily Post US etiquette
Marilyn Horne opera singer	Elizabeth Arden makeup

Colla Voce
c/o Kevin Nelson
P.O. Box 294
Staples, MN 56479

Questions? Please contact:
Steve Hoemberg, artistic director
218 894-5411 school
e-mail shoemberg@isd2170.k12.mn.us

Last Updated
August 10, 2009

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