Library & Information Science, Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
Spring, 1999

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Activists & Politicians:

Eleanor Roosevelt

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Frances Perkins

Madeleine Albright

Mary McLeod Berthune

Emma Golman

Carrie Chapman Catt

Jane Addams

Eva Peron

Alice Paul

Marian Wright Edelman

Rosa Parks

Golda Meir

Margaret Thatcher

Jiang Qing

Rigobertta Menchu

Dolores Huerta

Maggie Kuhn

Indira Gandhi

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Sandra Day O'Connor

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Anita Hill

Mother Teresa

Gloria Steinem

Phyllis Schlafly

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Writers & Journalists

Toni Morrison

Virginia Woolf

Gertrude Stein

Agatha Christie

Margaret Mitchell

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Maya Angelou

Sylvia Plath

Hannah Arendt

Betty Friedan

Simone de Beauvoir

Dorothy Parker

Anne Frank

Rachel Carson

Margaret Mead

Ann Landers

Helen Gurley Brown

Barbara Walters

Doctors & Scientists

Marie Curie

Lise Meitner

Helen Caldicott

Rosalind Franklin

Jane Goodall

Mary Leakey

Barbara McClintock

Virginia Apgar

Melanie Klein

Grace Hopper

Entrepreneurs

Martha Stewart

Coco Chanel

Mary Quant

Elsie de Wolfe

Estee Lauder

Julia Child

Ruth Handler

Jean nidetch

Katharine Graham

Oprah Winfrey

Artists & Entertainers

Greta Garbo

Lucille Ball

Ella Fitzgerald

Marian Anderson

Maria Callas

Georgia O'Keeffe

Frida Kahlo

Mary Pickford

Marilyn Monroe

Leni Riefenstahl

Margaret Bourke-White

Dorothea Lange

Isadora Duncan

Jane Fonda

Martha Graham

Madonna

Janis Joplin

Billie Holiday

Katharine Hepburn

Athletes

Babe Didrikson

Gertrude Ederle

Sonya Jenie

Suzanne Lenglen

Wilma Rudolph

Billie Jean King

Nadia Comaneci

Pioneers & Adventurers

Amelia Earhart

Margaret Sanger

Jane Roe

Helen Keller

Maria Montessori

Betty Ford

Valentina Tereshkova

Nancy Brinker

Diana, Princess of Wales

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