Evelyn Jones Kirmse is the name of my great-grandmother, who went to the University of Arizona. I Sydney Evelyn Broderick am part of her legacy. I never got to know my great-grandmother Kirmse but I have heard many things about her. A remarkable woman my great-grandmother was. So remarkable that at the University of Arizona in the women’s plaza of honor, she has her own "rock" placed there in honor of her accomplishments and contributions to the institution. She was revered by many people in her time, a time when women struggled to get that reverence. At the university, she was Dean of Women, a member of the Arizona Board of Regents from 1951 to 1959, and Special Assistant to the University President John Schaefer. My mother told me that
she was the first person to go through university, and she smacked an insane dictator.
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Also, being very successful with her inns and plantations. She was named the “Mother of Texas” , not because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas, but because she was a legacy in
Between 1924 and 1938,she was the executive director of YWCA facilities in Springfield,Ohio,Jersey City,New Jersey,Harlem,Philidelphia,Pennsylvania and Brooklyn. She married Merritt A Hedgeman in 1936. In addition,she was also the excutive director of the National Committee for a Permanet Fair Employment Practices Commission,she briefly served as the assistant Deam of Women at Howard University,as public relations consultant for Fuller Products Company,as a associate editor,columnist for the New York Age. And she also worked for the Harry Truman Presidential campaign. Besides her being the first black woman to have a Bachlor`s degree in English,she was also the first black woman to serve to hold the position in the cabniet of New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr from 1954 to 1958. All of her success made her a well respected civic leader by the early
She authored numerous sociological texts that are still referenced today, and was responsible for incorporating research and statistical data into the legislative process. She also initiated several investigations into child labor infractions in factories across the country. Her help in drafting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Social Security Act of 1935 provided a foundation for the future of social security. Her extensive contributions to the betterment of conditions for numerous disenfranchised groups earned her the title of one of American history’s most influential women, and in 1976 she was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame (New World Encyclopedia, 2017).
...rt herself. She began washing miner’s clothes in Central City. She established a solid ground for herself when she met Lorenzo Bowman. He was an entrepreneur and gave her the opportunity to gather and save up $10,000 in her name. She was known for her generosity in helping African Americans move to Central City, using the money that she had saved up (Abbott, Leonard, Noel, 2013, pp. 217). Her significance was important in Central City as she helped build Central City through population.
She started out as a guest lecturer speaking out against slavery. Stone was a known as a major abolitionist in the pre-civil war period. At this time, the other Women’s rights leaders wondered if her abolition speaking would take away from their cause.
As you can see, Mary Ritter Beard was an extraordinary leader who left behind a significant legacy through her strong feminist leadership. She influenced the world today in several ways, and will never be forgotten because of the many admirable qualities she showed throughout the years.
During her time, women were expected to stay at home and take care of her house and children. Going out and being an active member of society just wasn’t something women did. She opened doors for many women by being a trailblazer in the medical field. She never had kids or a husband because she believed that the soldiers were her children. A family could have hindered her success and ability to travel to battlefields. She wouldn’t have been able to risk her life every day knowing she had a family that needed her. There is still the stigma that women “need” to have children. She didn’t follow that stigma and showed that women don’t have to have children to have a fulfilled life. She filled her life the way she wanted to not how everyone else wanted her
... she addressed many problems of her time in her writings. She was an inspirational person for the feminism movements. In fact, she awoke women’s awareness about their rights and freedom of choice. She was really a great woman.
...acknowledged as the greatest women mathematician of the 1900’s, even though she had to go through many obstacles and chauvinism. She was the first women to be accepted into a major college. She proved many of the stereotypes that women were considered to be erroneous, which in the long run also made her a famous person. She was the one who discovered the associative law, commutative law, and the distributive law. These are the Laws that make the basics for Algebra, Geometry, and Basic math. All together she has unquestionably earned the title as the most famous woman mathematician of the 1900’s.
To begin with, one of her first and most memorable achievements was undoubtedly being a conductor of the underground railroad. Having escaped 1849, her first trip began a year later in 1850. According to Document B, she had escorted three fugitives including her niece to freedom. She had made her last trip after ten years in 1960. Between these years, it is estimated that she had liberated around 40 slaves. I believe that this is one of the things that really enabled her to keep pushing and to keep helping out for a cause. For her cause.
...gent in the many journalist jobs she had held. She was caring as she made her transition from writer to mother. She was an incredibly hard working lady, as shown through her White House makeover. She was resolute in keeping the culture in D.C. and supportive of her loving husband until the end. Next time, when seeing a pretty pink flower or blushing cheeks, think of the strong traits belonging to this amazing woman and the legacy left behind.
...sband, mothered eight children, risking death from each pregnancy, and managed to live sixty years. She was the first woman in American Literature to have her work published and also one of the first American women to begin thinking as a femenist. Even though Bradstreet was not a prominent, public femenist, she realized that she had to start somewhere and due to her living in the strict patriarchal puritan society, she did what she could. Although Bradstreet was very religious and held her spirituality very close to her, she still put together early femenist thought and can be considered one of the first American femnists.
...o avoid disbelief from her audience. She was the first woman who dared to tell her experience of enslavement and how she was sexuallyabused.