In honor of International Women's Day, I'm sharing a brief backstory on FIVE WOMEN who changed the World! Five women you need to learn more about.
1 Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) The Diary of Anne Frank gives the reader an unique look at World War II through the eyes of a very special German teenage girl. Her family, The Franks, persecuted as Jews living in Germany, then Austria during Hitler's reign of terror hid in a secret place but were discovered and sent to concentration camps in 1944. Out of the Frank family, only Anne’s father survived. He authorized publication of Anne’s diary.
ANNE FRANK Wrote “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
2 Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) Maya Angelou without a doubt, one of the most influential women in American history. A poet, singer, civil rights activist, and award winning author writing the memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a best-seller by an African-American woman. Angelou had a difficult childhood. She grew up in Stamps, Arkansas, Maya and experienced a great deal of racial prejudices thoughout her life. A pivotal point happened when she was seven. Angelou was assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend, who was then killed by her uncles as revenge. The incident traumatised Angelou to the point that she became a virtual mute for many years.
Maya Anjelou wrote “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
3 Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) Rosa Parks while riding bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, was asked to stand up and give up her seat to another passenger who happened to be a white man. Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused the request from the bus driver and is credited with starting the entire civil rights movement. At the time in 1955, Alabama was segregated. Unimaginable now these segregation laws limited accessibilty to black men and women to so many freedoms all Americans are entitled to today. On the day Rosa decided to argue for her right, there were no more seats left in the white section, so the bus conductor told the four black riders to stand and give the white man a whole row. Three obeyed, Parks did not. She was arrested and the protests spread across the USA. When she passed at the age of 92 in 2005, Rosa Parks became the first woman in our nation’s history to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
Rosa Parks said “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”
4 Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) A physicist and scientist, discovered two new elements (radium and polonium) and developed a portable x-ray machine. Currie was the first person, Male OR Female, to win two separate Noble Prizes, one for physics and another for chemistry, and to this day Curie is the only person, regardless of gender, to receive Noble prizes for two different sciences. Marie Currie is infamous for dealing with discrimination contributing to the fields of science and physics which at the time like many fields was a completely make-dominated field.
Marie Curie said “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
5 Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1939)
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic AND the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the US, She became know not only as an aviator but a female trailblazer as well.
Earhart awas from Kansas. Born in 1897 and even as a young girl, fought to do things she was told "girls couldn't" She played basketball, took auto repair courses and attended college. In 1920, Earhart took flying lessons and was obsessed with earning her pilot's license. She did in fact pass her flight test by the end of 1921. "She set multiple aviation records, but it was her attempt at being the first person to circumnavigate the globe which led to her disappearance and presumed death. In July 1937, Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific, and was declared dead in absentia in 1939. Her plane wreckage has never been found and to this day, her disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century."
Amelia Earhart said “Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Source https://www.marieclaire.com.au/famous-women-in-history