As Mother's Day approaches, it is time for us to honor women throughout time who made a postie impact to their community or the world at large. Not all these women were biological mothers, but they all have served as inspiration to men and women worldwide. I hope they inspire you to do great things as well!
1. Marie Curie (1867-1956)
Marie Curie was born in Poland in 1867. She excelled at school as a child, but lost her mother when she was 11.
She could not attend the men-only University of Warsaw. Marie and her sister, Bronya, dreamed of attending college in another country, but were too poor. Undeterred, Curie worked out a deal with her sister. She worked as a tutor and governess to save up money for Bronya to go to school, reading about science and math in her spare time.
In 1891, Marie moved to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne. Because she stll did not have much money, Marie had a poor diet that lead to health problems. She graduated with her master's in physics and one in math.
Marie discovered that uranium rays remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium. She created the field of atomic physics and the word radioactivity. Marie and her husband, Pierre Curie, discovered two elements, called polonium and radium.
Marie Curie was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in physics, in 1903.After her husband died in 1906, she took over his teaching post at the Sorbonne, becoming the school's first female professor. She won her second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry in 1911, the first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes.
Marie made practical advancements for France during World War I, creating a portable X-ray machine. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
2. Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010)
Wilma Mankiller was born in Oklahoma in 1945. She and her husband, Hector Hugo Olaya de Bardi, had two daughters: Felicia Olaya, born in 1964, and Gina Olaya, born in 1966.
In the 1960s, Wilma was inspired by the attempts by AIM attempts to capture Alcatraz. She decided to return to Oklahoma in the 1970s. There she began working for the Cherokee Indian Nation as a tribal planner and program developer.
Wilma ran for deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1983 and won, and in 1985 she was named the tribe's principal chief, the first woman to do so. Wilma focused on improving the government, and health-care and education systems of the Cherokee. She also taught for a short time at Dartmouth.
3. Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Clara Barton was born in 1821, in Massachusetts.She became a teacher when she was15 and opened a school in New Jersey.
Clara Barton was born in 1821, in Massachusetts.She became a teacher when she was15 and opened a school in New Jersey.
She moved to Washington, D.C.,where she worked as a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office.
During the Civil War, she wanted to help any way she could. She collected and disbursed supplies for the North and was a nurse. After the war, she worked for the War Department, reuniting missing soldiers and their families and finding information about those who were still missing.
During the Civil War, she wanted to help any way she could. She collected and disbursed supplies for the North and was a nurse. After the war, she worked for the War Department, reuniting missing soldiers and their families and finding information about those who were still missing.
While visiting Europe, she worked with a relief organization known as the International Red Cross. When she returned to the United States, she founded the American Red Cross Society in 1881 and was the first president. Clara ran relief efforts for victims of disasters. After stepping down from the Red Cross in 1904, Clara gave speeches and wrote a book called The Story of My Childhood.
4. Clara McBride Hal (1905-1992)
Clara McBride Hale was born in 1905 in North Carolina and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She married Thomas Hale and moved to Harlem in New York City.Clara provided care for her children and other youth. She founded the Hale House in Harlem, where she housed homeless children, children of drug users and alcoholics, children of AIDS victims, children who were infected with HIV, and children of incarcerated women.
Mary Mcleod was born in 1875, in South Carolina, Mary, the daughter of former slaves, was the only child in her family to go to school.
Mary graduated from seminary in 1893, and went on to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She returned to the South, and began her car.er as a teacher.
Mary believed that education was the path to racial advancement. She founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls in Florida, in 1904. She was the school's president, and remained its leader after it merged with the Cookman Institute for Men in 1920's. The merged school became the Bethune-Cookman College, one of the few places where African-American students could receive a college degree.Mary also advised government leaders. President Coolidge asked her to join a conference on child welfare. During President Hoover's administration, she was on the Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership and was appointed to a committee on child health.
Mary, a member of the NAACP, represented the group at the 1945 conference on the United Nations. President Harry Truman selected her to a committee on national defense and to serve as an official delegate to a presidential inauguration in Liberia.
n 1935, Mary became a special adviser to President Roosevelt on minority affairs. She also started a civil rights organization, the National Council of Negro Women, which advocated for issues for African-American women. In 1936, she became the director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, where she helped people find jobs. Mary was also a friend of both the president and Eleanor Roosevelt.
*Information modefied from Biography.com
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