Good Morning! On this day, (Sat) Feb 25 in 1842 Ida Lewis was born. She was an American lighthouse keeper noted for her heroism in rescuing people from the seas. Lewis made her first rescue in 1854,coming to the assistance of four men whose boat had capsized. She was only 12 years old when she made her first of many rescues.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) February 24 in 1827 Lydia Becker was born. She was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She established Manchester as a center for the suffrage movement.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Thurs) February 23 in 1787 Emma Willard was born. She was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education, the Troy Female Seminary in NY State

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Good Morning! On this day, (Wed) Feb 22 in 1876 Zitkala-Sa was born. She was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, she also wrote Native American stories.

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On this day, (Tuesday) Feb. 21 in 1936 Barbara Charline Jordan was born. She was an American lawyer, educator and politician who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, and later the US House or Representatives.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Tues.) Feb. 21 in 1924 Thelma Estrin was born. She was an American computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical engineering. She was one of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Monday) February 20 in 1805 Angelina Grimké was born. She was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. She and her sister some of the first white Southern women who became abolitionists.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) February 19 in 1871 Lugenia Burns Hope was born. She was a social reformer whose community service organizations improved the quality of life for African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Sat) Feb 18 in 1934 Audre Lorde was born. She was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. She dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism and classism.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Wed) Feb 1 in 1898 Leila Denmark was born. She was an American pediatrician in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the world's oldest practicing pediatrician until her retirement in May 2001 at the age of 103, after 73 years. She lived to the age of 114 years!

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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) January 18 in 1884 Elena Arizmendi Mejia was born. She was a Mexican feminist who established the Neutral White Cross to care for casualties of the Mexican Revolution that the Red Cross would not aid.

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Truly an amazing leader!

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