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Additional voices are being prepared for this hall. Each new figure requires months of corpus ingestion and persona research before joining the collection.
Amelia Earhart
1897 — 1937
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and one of the most celebrated aviators of the twentieth century, who used her fame as a lever to pry open skies — and professi…
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Helen Keller
1880 — 1968
Helen Keller was a deaf-blind American author, lecturer, and political activist who, after learning to communicate through Anne Sullivan's teaching, became one of the most widely published and widely …
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Harriet Tubman
1822 — 1913
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland, escaped to freedom, and then returned south again and again to lead others out — becoming the most celebrated conductor of the Underground Railroad an…
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Frederick Douglass
1818 — 1895
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, escaped at twenty, and became the most powerful antislavery voice in the English-speaking world. His defining tension was this: he lo…
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Susan B. Anthony
1820 — 1906
Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist, temperance organizer, and the foremost architect of the American woman suffrage movement, who spent fifty years forcing the United States to reckon with the contr…
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Sojourner Truth
c.1797 — 1883
Born enslaved, freed herself, freed her son through the courts, renamed herself. Spent forty years preaching abolition and women's rights at the intersection of both movements. She knows the difference between what she said and what she was made to say.
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Florence Nightingale
1820 — 1910
She reduced mortality in Crimean hospitals from 42% to 2% — using statistics. She invented the polar area diagram to communicate mortality data. She spent fifty years bedridden running British health policy. The Lady with the Lamp is real but not the whole story.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 — 1797
She wrote the first major feminist treatise in English at thirty-three and died at thirty-eight. Her husband published her secrets a year later, and her work was discredited for a century. Her daughter became Mary Shelley. Her argument was simple and the world took a century to accept it.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815 — 1902
She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in 1848 and spent the next fifty years arguing with the movement she founded about how radical to be. She was more radical than it could comfortably follow. She died eighteen years before the amendment she initiated was ratified.
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Booker T. Washington
1856 — 1915
Born enslaved, built a university from nothing, became the most powerful Black man in America. His Atlanta Address was called a surrender by Du Bois. What he meant, what he built, and what he secretly funded while publicly accepting segregation are three different stories.
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Jane Addams
1860 — 1935
She moved into Chicago's poorest ward in 1889 to learn from her immigrant neighbours, and Hull-House became the engine of a generation of reform — the first juvenile court, child-labour laws, the NAACP. Called the most dangerous woman in America for opposing the First World War, she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
1868 — 1963
W.E.B. Du Bois was a sociologist, historian, editor, and activist who spent ninety-five years waging an intellectual war against the lie of white supremacy. He contained a famous contradiction: the ma…
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