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5 Most Influential American ladies

July 31, 2010 People

Hazel Johnson

Hazel Johnson ( Born 1927) was first Black woman general, appointed brigadier general in the U.S. Army on Sept. 1, 1979. General Johnson retired from the Army in 1983. She entered the U.S. Army in 1955, shortly after President Harry Truman banned segregation in the armed services. When she retired from the military in 1983, the list of credentials Johnson-Brown had accumulated was impressive.

Hazel Johnson held different positions like project director at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command in Washington, D.C.; dean of the Walter Reed Army Institute School of Nursing; and special assistant to the chief of the U.S. Army Medical Command in Korea. She reached the pinnacle of her military career when she was appointed Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, with the rank of Brigadier General.

Oprah Winfery

Oprah Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, actress and producer, she studied at the Tennessee State University and received a BA in Speech and Performing Arts. Oprah Winfrey’s career in the media industry began as a news anchor and reporter for a television station in Nashville, She was the first black African American woman television news anchor to work in Nashville on the WTVF-TV station at the young age of 19.

Oprah Winfery started her show “ Oprah Winfery show” in September 8, 1986 and went on to become one of the most successful and highest ranked television talk show programs in history. The program is viewed by more than 20 million Americans (USA) every week and broadcast Internationally to more than one hundred countries worldwide.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American writer and philanthropist, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) best-known for the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851-52). Stowe wrote the work in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it illegal to assist an escaped slave and according to analysts her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin inspired a generation of abolitionists and set the stage for American civil war.

In the story ‘Uncle Tom’ of the title is bought and sold three times and finally beaten to death by his last owner. The book was quickly translated into 37 languages and it sold in five years over half a million copies in the United States. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was also among the most popular plays of the 19th century.

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League and she was one of the most influential American Women of last century.
Margaret Sanger was educated as and worked as a nurse. In her work with poor women on the Lower East Side of New York, she was aware of the effects of unplanned and unwelcome pregnancies. Her mother’s health had suffered as she bore eleven children. She came to believe in the importance to women’s lives and women’s health of the availability of birth control.

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American professor, politician, diplomat and author. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first African-American woman secretary of state, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright).

Rice has appeared on the Time 100, Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, four times. Rice is one of only nine people in the world whose influence has been considered enduring enough to have made the list.

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