{"id":53547,"date":"2021-03-31T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/?p=53547"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:07:31","slug":"24-pioneering-women-you-didnt-learn-about-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/blog\/24-pioneering-women-you-didnt-learn-about-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Pioneering Women You Didn\u2019t Learn About in School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murasaki Shikibu<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0(973 or 978<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1014 or 1031) is the pen<\/span>name of a Japanese writer and Imperial lady-in-waiting, best known for penning\u00a0<\/span>The Tales of\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Genji<\/span><\/i>, which is considered the oldest completed novel in the world. Her\u00a0true identity\u00a0remains unknown although there have b<\/span>een speculations that she may have been Fujiwara no\u00a0<\/span>Kaoriko<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Queen Nanny of the Maroons<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>1686<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1755) remains a bit of a legend, as most knowledge of her comes from oral history. She was bo<\/span>rn in Ghana and lead the Jamaican Maroons in guerrilla warfare against the British. In 1975 she was declared a national hero. Her troops excelled in long-range communication and camouflage<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0giving them an advantage over the British in addition to their inno<\/span>vations in guerrilla warfare. Nanny and her Maroons won their freedom and a parcel of land in a time where slavery remained common.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Bonny<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>1697<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1733<\/span>) and\u00a0<\/span>Mary Read<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(1685<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1721) were the most famous lady pirates of the Caribbean. Born in Ireland and England, respectively, Bonny and Read were\u00a0<\/span>likely l<\/span>o<\/span>vers<\/span><\/a>, in addition to Bonny\u2019s marriage to the notorious Jack Calico. All three were captured after stealing a Nassau ship. Calico was executed immediately, Read died in prison, and Bonny\u2019s death remains a mystery.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Ellen Pleasant<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>1814<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1904<\/span>) was an entrepreneur and abolitionist who owned several businesses and financed the freedom of hundreds of slaves and won several<\/span>\u00a0civil rights victories after the civil war. Often\u00a0<\/span>passing for white, Pleasant used her light skin tone to her advantage in business, amassing a hefty fortune before declaring herself as a Black woman and using her means to support well known abolitionist John Brown who was also her friend and lover. When\u00a0<\/span>he was hanged, a letter of hers was found on him, although no one suspected her. Pleasant came clean before her death<\/span>, admitting to donating $900,000 in today\u2019s dollars to Brown\u2019s abolitionist pursuits. She additionally<\/span>\u00a0worked on the Underground Railroad and sued over streetcar segregation. She has been called the \u201cMother of Human Rights in California.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Winnemucca<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1844<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1891) wrote the first known memo<\/span>ir by a Native American woman,\u00a0<\/span>Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(1883). Hailing from the Northern Paiute tribe, Winnemucca, also known as\u00a0<\/span>Thocmentony<\/span>\u00a0meaning \u201cShell Flower,\u201d she worked as a teacher and interpreter, and played pivotal roles i<\/span>n war<\/span>time. With her command of the English language, she often served as a mediator between her tribe and Anglo-Americans, and advocated for the sovereignty of her people, particularly after their move to the Yakama Reservation<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0which has been described as<\/span>\u00a0a concentration camp. Her writing has been a key tool for modern historians and sociologists. While her social activism was a prominent part of her legacy, she has also been criticized for helping the US military.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Madam CJ Walker<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1867<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1919) is the first female self-made millionaire in America according to the\u00a0<\/span>Guinness<\/span>\u00a0Book of World Records. After a childhood spent on a cotton plantation, Walker amassed her fortune through a line of cosmeti<\/span>cs and hair products specifically marketed to Black wom<\/span>e<\/span>n. As the brand grew, Madam C<\/span>J<\/span>\u00a0Walker Manufacturing Company trained nearly 20,000 women as sales agents and eventually started selling abroad in Central America and the Caribbean. Walker was also k<\/span>nown as an activist and philanthropist, establishing a YMCA in Indianapolis\u2019s Black community, and eventually moved to New York where her activism grew<\/span>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>p<\/span>articularly when she joined the executive committee that organized the Silent Protest Parade which dre<\/span>w a crowd of over 8,000 to protest the East St. Louis race riots. Her daughter,\u00a0<\/span>A\u2019<\/span><\/b>L<\/span><\/b>elia\u00a0<\/span><\/b>W<\/span><\/b>alker<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1885<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>1931) was an\u00a0<\/span>openly bisexual<\/span><\/a>\u00a0patron of the arts in Harlem, who traveled to Paris and spent time with Josephine Baker, who you\u2019ll learn more about later.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yosano<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Akiko<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1878<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1942) w<\/span>rote controversial tanka poetry and stood strong as an anti-war pacifist and feminist in late Meiji Japan. She completed an estimated 20<\/span>\u2013<\/span>50,000 poems and gave birth to 13 children. Her feminist stances deviated from her Japanese contemporaries with regards<\/span>\u00a0to financial independence and motherhood. While many Japanese women advocated for government assistance for mothers, Akiko argued that dependence on the government is equivalent to dependence on a man in an essay titled \u201cWomen\u2019s Complete Freedom.\u201d She als<\/span>o wrote about the importance of women having identity beyond motherhood. In her later years into the Taisho period, her commentary took a turn to the right in support of wa<\/span>r\u00a0<\/span>against China and the US.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marjorie Stoneman Douglas<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1890<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1998) saved the Florida Everglades. While working as a journalist, she wrote\u00a0<\/span>The Everglades: River of Grass\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(1947) which brought national attention\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0importan<\/span>ce<\/span>\u00a0of the\u00a0<\/span>swamp<\/span>land and prevented it from b<\/span>eing\u00a0<\/span>used<\/span>\u00a0for land development. She was also a suffrage advocate and served as a charter member of the ACLU. Douglas had been recognized for her work with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0a<\/span>n\u00a0<\/span>award in her name through the<\/span>\u00a0National Parks Association<\/span>. She was also<\/span>\u00a0inducted into various halls of fame. She continued her work as a conservationist until her death at 108.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Orosa<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>e<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Y<\/span><\/b>lagan<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1892<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1945) developed nutrie<\/span>nt<\/span>–<\/span>dense food products like\u00a0<\/span>Soyalac<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Darak<\/span>\u00a0in the Philippines<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0as well as banana ketchup. In addition to her work as a pharmaceutical chemist,\u00a0<\/span>Orosa<\/span>\u00a0was a humanitarian and war heroine. Her canning techniques and food inventions saved hundreds of lives an<\/span>d aided guerrilla warriors fighting the Japanese during World War II. One of her goals was to help develop food self-sufficiency in the\u00a0<\/span>Philippines<\/span>. She died of shrapnel wounds in Manila after contributing over 700 recipes and\u00a0<\/span>to the war effort<\/span>. She is recognized by the Philippines and the American Red Cross for her invaluable knowledge and innovations.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chief Funmilayo Ransome-<\/span><\/b>Kuti<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1900<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1<\/span>978) played a pivotal role in the Ni<\/span>gerian independence movement as an educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and activist. She was the first female student admitted to the Abeokuta Grammar School<\/span>\u00a0and worked promote literacy among lower income women. Ransome-<\/span>Kuti<\/span>\u00a0also established the A<\/span>beokuta Woman\u2019s Union while fighting for women\u2019s rights and better government representation. She believed in socialist principals and caught the attention of the British and US who feared her communist connections, although her passport was eventually res<\/span>tored. She became president of the Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1963<\/span>\u00a0and received several honors and awards for her activism<\/span>\u2014i<\/span>ncluding the honor of membership to the Order of Nigeria and the Lenin Peace Prize.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Josephine Baker<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1906<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1975) collected intelligence about the Nazis and their collaborators while performing in Paris. She smuggled her information to the British with invisible ink on sheet music. She was also t<\/span>he first Black woman to star in a major motion picture,\u00a0<\/span>Siren of the Tropics<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(1927). Born in the US, she renounced her citizenship and became a French national. She rose to fame with her erotic dances and stage shows<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>often accompanied by her signature banana costume and her pet cheetah, Chiquita. Yes, a cheetah, that would someti<\/span>mes escape to the dismay of her musicians. Hemingway called her \u201cthe most sensational woman anyone ever sa<\/span>w<\/span>\u201d and Picasso painted her. She used her celebrity to serve as an \u201chonorable correspondent\u201d during the German occupation of France<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0for which she recei<\/span>ved the highest medals and honors. Baker went on to support the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s. She spoke at the March on Washington<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and was approached by Coretta Scott King after her husband\u2019s death to replace him as the leader of the movement<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0wh<\/span>ich she declined.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rachel Carson<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1907<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1964) authored\u00a0<\/span>Silent Spring<\/span><\/i>, which resulted in a nationwide ban of certain pesticides<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0including DDT<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0in the United States. The book also inspired the grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U<\/span>.<\/span>S<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency. While her initial research focus<\/span>ed on marine biology with the bestsellers\u00a0<\/span>The Sea Around Us\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and\u00a0<\/span>Under the Sea Wind,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0her study and advocacy of environmental conservation played a pivotal role in bringing attention to the damage humanity was causing the planet it inhabits. She was post<\/span>hum<\/span>ously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. The surviving letters she exchanged with lifelong partner, Dorothy Freeman, have been published since her death.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chien-Shiun<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Wu<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1912<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1997) made significant contributions to nuclear and particle physics and worked on the Manhattan Project, developing the process for separating uranium. Sometimes known as the \u201cFirst Lady of Physics,\u201d the\u00a0<\/span>Chinese-American<\/span>\u00a0experimental ph<\/span>ysicist is best known for the Wu experiment which figured out something about the conservation of parity which may mean something to you if you studied physics, but I never did. While her role in the discovery was mentioned in the 1957 Nobel Prize in physi<\/span>cs acceptance speech, the prize was not awarded to her but rather the physicists who originated the idea of parity\u00a0<\/span>nonconservation<\/span>. Wu was honored in 1978 with the inaugural Wolf Prize.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ludmilla\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Pavilchenko<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0(1916<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1974) accumulated 309 confirmed kills as a Soviet sniper during World War II. Nicknamed \u201cLady Death,\u201d she is the most lethal female sniper in recorded history. In 1942, she was injured by a mortar shell and spent the rest of the w<\/span>ar training snipers and touring allied nations to secure a second front against Nazi Germany. At an assembly in Chicago, after reporters failed to take her seriously<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0she famously stated, \u201c<\/span>Gentlemen, I am 25 years\u00a0<\/span>old<\/span>\u00a0and I have killed 309 fascist invaders<\/span>\u00a0by now. Don’t you think, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind my back for too long?\u201d She received the Gold Star hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Lenin twice.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wangar<\/span><\/b>i<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Maathai<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>1940<\/span>\u2013<\/span>2011) was the first African woman and environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She studied in the U<\/span>.<\/span>S<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0and eventually earned a Doctorate in Philosophy at the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>University of Nairobi, becoming the first woman in\u00a0<\/span>e<\/span>ast and central Africa to do so.<\/span>\u00a0She founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, a non-profit which enabled women to replant devastated areas with\u00a0<\/span>trees<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0promoted both women\u2019s rights and environmental conservation. She fiercely protested government attempts to privatize public lands<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0was arrested more than once for it. She was later elected to parliament before winning the Nobel\u00a0<\/span>Peace Prize in 2004. She went on to work on waste-reduction programs and served on the Eminent Advisory Board of AWEPA until her death.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jocelyn Bell Burnell<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(1943<\/span>\u2013<\/span>Present)\u00a0<\/span>discovered the first radio pulsars, \u201cone of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century.\u201d The astrophysicist hails from Northern Ir<\/span>eland and made her discovery as a postgrad in 1967 which\u00a0<\/span>has<\/span>\u00a0become\u00a0<\/span>an\u00a0<\/span>extremely useful too<\/span>l<\/span>\u00a0for astronomers because of the ways they emit electromagnetic radiation<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>Or<\/span>\u00a0something<\/span>. Again, not something I have studied.<\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0Her thesis advisor, Anthony Hewish, was a<\/span>warded the Nobel Prize for the discovery in 1974. While many criticized her omission, she has said herself that the omission was justified because of her status as an undergrad. Regardless, she has gone on to serve as president of the Royal Astronomy Socie<\/span>ty<\/span>\u00a0and was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marsha P Johnson<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1945<\/span>\u2013<\/span>1992) and\u00a0<\/span>Sylvia Rivera<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1951<\/span>\u2013<\/span>2002) were prominent figures in the fight for gay and trans liberation<\/span>\u00a0and co-founders of the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR). Orphaned by her father\u2019s abandonment and mother\u2019s suicide<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Rivera<\/span>\u00a0was living on the streets by age 11 and forced into child prostitution until she was taken in by the local drag community. Johnson<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0on the other hand, remained closeted within her religious family until she moved to New York and started performing as a dra<\/span>g queen. Both saw their gender as something varied and fluid, not necessarily landing on \u201cwomanhood\u201d specifically. During the Stonewall Riots, Johnson threw \u201cthe shot glass that was heard around the world,\u201d while Rivera was uptown despite claiming to have\u00a0<\/span>been there. Regardless<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0the two founded\u00a0<\/span>STAR<\/span>, an organization for homeless queer youth. When Johnson\u2019s body was found in the Hudson River, Rivera and Johnson\u2019s other friends insisted that Johnson was not suicidal when police jumped to rule out foul play. Ri<\/span>vera\u2019s activism only strengthened after her friend\u2019s murder, solidifying the transgender movement<\/span>\u00a0that continues to this day<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Judith\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Heumann<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1947<\/span>\u2013<\/span>Present) became the first wheelchair user to teach in New York City aft<\/span>er winning\u00a0<\/span>Heumann<\/span><\/i>\u00a0v. Board of Education of the City of New York\u00a0<\/span><\/i>in 1970. She has since made immense strides for the disabled community with a range of non-profits, NGOs, and\u00a0<\/span>the government. She contributed to the Individuals with Disabilities Educa<\/span>tion Act and lead the 504\u00a0<\/span>sit<\/span>-in<\/span>, the longest federal building sit-in, which\u00a0<\/span>convinced<\/span>\u00a0Joseph\u00a0<\/span>Califano<\/span>\u00a0to sign the 504 section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973<\/span>\u2014adding<\/span>\u00a0significant civil rights protection to citizens with disabilities. She served in both\u00a0<\/span>t<\/span>he\u00a0<\/span>Clinton and Obama administrations, with the World Bank Group as their first Advisory on Disability and Development, and most recently as a senior Fellow at the Ford Foundation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maya Lin<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1959<\/span>\u2013<\/span>Present<\/span>) designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial after submitting her design in a public design competition while still an undergraduate at Yale University. The contest was blind, so the judges were unaware of her race, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, or he<\/span>r gender. Once revealed, she and her work faced controversy, but ultimately persevered and remains a landmark in Washington DC<\/span>\u2014<\/span>ranked 10 in a 2010 poll of America\u2019s Favorite Architecture. She has since created many installations, often with a focus on nat<\/span>ure, like her 2010 interactive memorial \u201c<\/span>What Is Missing?<\/span><\/a>\u201d which laments the loss of biodiversity across the globe. President Barack Obama awarded her with the National Medal of the Arts and the Presid<\/span>ential Medal of Freedom. Lin has four honorary doctorates and is represented by the Pace Gallery.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Claudia<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Paz\u00a0<\/span><\/b>y<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Paz<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0(1966<\/span>\u2013<\/span>Present) became the first female Attorney General of Guatemala in 20<\/span>10. She made unprecedented strides in criminal justice and human rights, including the prosecution of Efrain R\u00edos Montt for genocide, whose name you might recognize\u00a0because\u00a0<\/span>Rigobert<\/span>a<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Mench\u00fa<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>advocated for his trial. She aggressively prosecuted organized criminals and human rights violators<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0making her the first law enforcement official to bring justice to civil rights abusers in Guatemala.\u00a0In spite of\u00a0the thr<\/span>eats to her life, Paz y Paz sought justice in an unjust world, and\u00a0actually succeeded.\u00a0<\/span>Forbes\u00a0<\/span><\/i>named her one of the \u201cfive most powerful women in the world\u201d in 2012, and she was a leading candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. Now, she serves as a memb<\/span>er of the Justice Leadership Initiative, and a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ali Stroker<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(1987<\/span>\u2013<\/span>Present) played Anna in Deaf West\u2019s revival of\u00a0<\/span>Spring Awakening<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and Ado An<\/span>nie Caries in the 2018 revival on\u00a0<\/span>Oklahoma!<\/span><\/i>\u00a0for which she won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.\u00a0<\/span>Spring Awakening,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>which incorporates deaf actors, made her the first Broadway performer to use a wheelchair for mobility on stage, while\u00a0<\/span>Oklahoma<\/span><\/i>!<\/span><\/i>\u00a0made her the first one to win a Tony. Stroker is a co-chair of Women Who Care<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0supporting cerebral palsy, a founding member of anti-bullying campaign, Be More Heroic, and has traveled to South Africa to partner with ARTS\u00a0<\/span>InsideOut<\/span>\u2014<\/span>holding theater classes\u00a0<\/span>for women and children affected by AIDS. She is openly bi<\/span>sexual, a founding director of ATTENTION Theater, and at 33, has plenty more road ahead to trod.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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