Donna L. Hollander

April 4, 1928 died May 28 2014 Poet, Author, Civil Rights Activist, Dancer, Film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, actress, and professor. Awards: Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Grammy’s, National Medal of the Arts, Lincoln Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and over fifty honorary degrees. An amazing woman.

Born July 24 1897 disappeared July 2 1937, Amelia was first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was an early supporter of the equal Rights Amendment, the National Woman’s Party, she joined the faculty at Purdue University to counsel women on careers in aviation, she started the Ninety Nines a women’s pilot organization. She received the Distinguished Flying Cross, Cross of Knights of the Legion of Honor from France,Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Hoover

B: June 1945. Educated at St. Hews College in Oxford England. Lead a pro democracy movement in 1988, and in 1989 she was put under house arrest on and off until 2010. She has been awarded The Rafto Prize, Sakhrov Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Jawaharlal Nehru Award, International Simon Bolivar Prize, Olof Pa;me Prize, Bhagwan Mahavir World Peace, Congressional Gold Meta. Willy-Brant-Prize Suu Kyi has brought democracy to Myanmar.

June 3 1906 died April 12 1975 First African American woman to star in a major motion picture Zazou (1934). Lived in France. She was a big star in Europe during the mid 20’s and 30’s, when coming to America she refused to perform to segregated audiences. A spy for French resistance during WW2 smuggling back information in her sheet music. She was awarded 5 medals for her work with the French resistance. She worked with the NAACP

B: October 11 1884 - D: November 7 1962. Eleanor is the longest serving first lady in America. She was out spoken, and as first lady, she influenced causes she felt strongly about and fought for equal rights, the abolition of child labor, and minimum wage. In December 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman appointed Eleanor as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. In April 1946, she became the first chairperson of the preliminary United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Born July 25 1920 died April 16 1958 ovarian cancer. She was a scientist, who through her X-ray crystallography discovered DNA. Best known for her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA , which help describe the double helix of DNA. Without her permission these photo’s were shown to Watson and Crick who formulated their 1953 model of DNA on her photo’s. They received the Nobel Prize for their work. She also led work on the tobacco mosaic virus and the polio virus.