I just decided to list the women that we honored on our wall hanging. I got a few emails and a few FaceBook request to identify the women. Then, I promise, to start thinking of next years County Fair.
On the front of each placket( is this a word? ) we printed their picture on fabric. On the back we printed their bio. I will just give the highlights
here of their accomplishments)
- Rosa Parks ( Pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. Congress honored her as the " first lady of civil rights)
2.Greta
Thunberg (Environmental activist who challenged world leaders to take immediate action for climate mitigation)
- Jane Goodall( Primatologist and anthropologist. Expert on the study of social and family
interaction of wild chimpanzees )
- Helen Keller(political and social activist and supporter of women's right to vote.. She was a co- founder of the ACLU and a contributor to the NAACP.She was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964)
- Vandana Shiva ( physicist and social activist from India.Her activism is associated with the anti- GMO movement)
- Winona LaDuke ( known for her
work on tribal land claims and preservation. Shehelped found the Indigenous Women's Network to increase visibility and participation of native women in
the political process)
- Wangari Maathai( Kenyan social environmental and political activist . First African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize)
- Maya Angelou(A memoirist,poet
and civil rights activist)
- Oprah Winfry(Awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor, The Jean Hershall Humanitarian Award, Golden Globe Awards, Tony Awards. She founded a charitable community grassroots organization
to educate and empower women and children.)
- Malala Yousafzai( Pakistani activist for female education and 2014 Nobel peace prize laureate. She is the symbol of the fight for girls' education )
- Dolly Parton ( philanthropist and business woman. Her Imagination Library is a gift giving program that mails free books to children from birth to kindergarten. She has donated millions of dollars to fund pediatric infectious disease research and
Moderna's Covid 19 vaccine.)
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg(( Our Wonder Woman .and role model. Second woman to serve as justice on the USSupreme Court.)
- Billy Jean King( Legend
tennis champion and social activist. She fought for equal prize money in men and women's games. She was a crusader for social justice.In 2009 she received the Presidential medal of honor)
- the last frame is a mirror where the person who looks in it sees themselves as capable of making a difference.
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