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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist / 1797 - 1883
Sojourner Truth is best known for her extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
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Mary Lyon
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Mary Lyon
Educator, Women's Rights Activist / 1797 - 1849
Mary Lyon was an educator and founder of the first women's college, which is now known as Mount Holyoke College.
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Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley
Author / 1797 - 1851
English writer Mary Shelley is best known for her horror novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). She was married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Franz Schubert
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Franz Schubert
Educator, Songwriter / 1797 - 1828
Franz Schubert is considered the last of the classical composers and one of the first romantic ones. Schubert's music is notable for its melody and harmony.
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Joseph Henry
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Joseph Henry
Physicist / 1797 - 1878
Physicist Joseph Henry aided Samuel F.B. Morse in developing the telegraph. He also discovered several important principles of electricity.
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John Bell
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John Bell
U.S. Representative / 1797 - 1869
John Bell was elected Tennessee senator in 1847, serving in the Senate until 1859. He was also a U.S. presidential nominee on the eve of the American Civil War.
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