Great Women 1960-1990

1. Great Women 1960-1990

2. Rachel Carson 1907-1964 Marine Biologist -Born in Springdale, PA First published at 10 years old -Began her college career as an English major -Switched to biology, graduated and was then awarded a scholarship to attend John Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1929 -As a writer and a biologist much of her work was published -First book 1941 Under the Sea-Wind, second 1953 The Sea Around Us -Silent Spring launched the contemporary environmental movement exposing the dangers of pesticides and pressuring research for safer alternatives to DDT, pesticide companies attacked Carson’s integrity, she was asked to testify before a congressional committee, DDT was banned -A wildlife refuge on the coast of Maine is named in her honor

3. Born in 1944 Eatonon, Georgia Last of 8 children Active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s Still an activist in the 1990’s speaking for the women’s movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the anti-nuclear movement, and against female genital mutilation Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple Hand out “Everyday Use” 1968 — Once: Poems 1970 — The Third Life of Grange Copeland 1973 — Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems 1973 — In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women 1974 — Langston Hughes, American Poet 1976 — Meridian 1979 — I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (editor)1979 — Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning 1981 — You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories 1982 — The Color Purple 1984 — In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 1984 — Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful 1988 — To Hell With Dying              (Illustrations by Catherine Deeter) 1988 — Living by the Word 1989 — The Temple of My Familiar 1991 — Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete1991 — Finding the Green Stone1992 — Possessing the Secret of Joy 1993 — Warrior Marks1996 — Alice Walker: Banned 1996 — The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 1997 — Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism 1998 — By the Light of My Father's Smile 2000 — The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 2001 — Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother SpiritAfter the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon2003 — Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems 2003 — A Poem Traveled Down My Arm : Poems and Drawings 2004 — Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart 2005 — PemaChodron And Alice Walker in Conversation - Audio CD 2006 — There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me 2006 — We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

4. Bette Davis 1908-1989 1977-First woman to receive a AFT’s Lifetime Achievement Award Began of Off-Broadway, then Broadway and on to film 1930 Bad Sister,1932 The Man Who Played God, 1934 Of Human Bondage Oscars for Dangerous and Jezebel 1939 did not get the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind Oscar nomination for her role in All AboutEve 1950 career came to standstill --1961 now famous "job wanted" ad in trade papers Oscar nomination for her role as a demented former child star in 1962's What EverHappened to Baby Jane? 1979 she won a Best Actress Emmy for "Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter."

5. Elizabeth Dole 1936-? First woman appointed US Secretary of Transportation