Random Famous American Women Who Deserve Their Faces On Money (24 items)

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  (#21) Rachel Carson

  Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) was an American marine biologist and conservationist. She was an early advocate of the environmental movement, which she documented in her book Silent Spring.
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  (#11) Nellie Bly

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  Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was the pen name of writer, inventor, and journalist Elizabeth Cochran Seaman. One of her most famous works was Ten Days in A Mad-House, in which Bly went undercover at the Women's Lunatic Asylum to document allegations of neglect. Her investigative research was groundbreaking, leading to hospital and patient care reform.
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  (#13) Ida B. Wells

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  Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an African-American civil rights leader whose work was varied and wide-ranging, though she was particularly well-known for her skills as an investigative journalist and editor. She often documented lynchings in the United States. Wells was also one of the founders of the NAACP.

   
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  (#8) Amelia Earhart

  Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She's credited with opening the skies to other female pilots. Her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while she was attempting to become the first person to fly around the equator.

   
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  (#23) Billie Holiday

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  Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was an American jazz singer. Often called the “First Lady of the Blues,” Holiday is considered by many to be the greatest and most expressive jazz singer of all time. 

   
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  (#20) Claudette Colvin

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  In 1955, when Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was 15, she refused to move and give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white person. This was nine months before Rosa Parks mounted a similar protest. 

   

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