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A UTHOR
A UTHOR
Maya Angelou !"$# – $%!& was a poet, author, and performer, most famous for her autobiography I KnowWhy the Caged Bird Sings.
Zora Neale Hurston !#"! – !"'% was an anthropologist and author who wrote about the African American experience. Her most famous novel was ! eir Eyes Were Watching God.
Louisa May Alcott !#($ – !### was an abolitionist, feminist, and author. She wrote twenty novels, including the beloved Little Women series.
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E XPLORER
E XPLORER
Sacajawea !)## – !##& was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who was captured as a young girl and forced to marry a French-Canadian man. Later, she famously accompanied Lewis and Clark on their westward expedition as an interpreter and guide, carrying her young son the entire time.
Bessie Coleman !#"$ – !"$' was an airplane pilot who was both the , rst African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot’s license.
Nellie Bly !#'& – !"$$ was a journalist who pioneered an investigative type of reporting, most famously taking a record-breaking solo trip around the world in 1889.
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S CIENTIST
Y nés Mexia !#)% – !"(# was a Mexican American explorer and botanist who traveled the world cataloguing plants, including 500 new species.
Harriet Chalmers Adams !#)+ – !"() was an explorer and journalist who traveled the world extensively and wrote about her explorations for National Geographic.
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