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* Helen?Keller? (1880 - 1968)Author and lecturer. An illness at the age of 19 months left her deaf, blind and mute. Through the work of teacher Anne Sullivan, she learned to overcome these handicaps and became a powerful and effective national spokesperson on behalf of others with similar disabilities. Maria Curie(1867-1934) was born in Poland, moved to Paris and studied chemistry and physics there. She married Pierre Curie and together they studied radioactive materials and discovered radium. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Ann?Bancroft ? (1955 - )First woman to travel across the ice to the North and South Poles. She was the first woman to travel across Greenland on skis, and in 1993, was leader of the American Womens Expedition, a group of four who skied more than 600 miles to the South Pole. Pearl S.?Buck ? (1892 - 1973)Novelist whose writing evoked two different cultures, American and Asian. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth and was later the first American woman awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 3 Time Olympics Gold Medallist Wilma Rudolph (foreground) wins a relay race in the 1960 Rome Olympics. Wilma?Rudolph? (1940 - 1994)First American woman ever to win three gold medals in the Olympics. A track and field champion, Rudolph elevated womens track to a major presence in the United States. She created the Wilma Rudolph Foundation to help train young athletes. Rosa Parks started the Civil Rights Movement? when she refused to give up her seat on this bus Rosa?Parks? (1913 - )Known as the mother of the Civil Rights Movement, when, in 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. The event sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, the first major effort in the Civil Rights struggle. Rosa Parks 1955 Rosa Parks Now She has her own company. She works in a department store. She’s married has a daughter. She’s now a teacher. What has become