Annie Kriegel

During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.

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Pearl Young

The first female professional hired by NASA’s predecessor, NACA, in an age when most women in the government were constrained to staffing support positions such as secretaries or administrative aides.

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Pauline Hopkins

Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”

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Lucile S McDonald

Lucile Saunders McDonald distinguished herself in the fields of journalism and popular history through a prolific lifetime career that produced several thousand news features and columns, 13 published books on local history, an equal number of children’s books, and countless contributions to magazines, journals, and anthologies.

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