Famous Women

Eleanor Roosevelt

• Born on October 11, 1884 in New York.

• Her parents died very young.
• She married her distant cousin: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• During World War I, she worked for the Red Cross.
• She helped Franklin with his political career and became First Lady in
1933.
• Activist (human rights, women’s issues, children’s causes, helping poor
people, against racial discrimination)
• During World War II, she travelled abroad to visit U.S. troops.
• After her husband's death in 1945, she was selected to be a delegate of
the United Nations General Assembly.
• She also became the chair of the UN's Human Rights Commission.
• President John F. Kennedy made her a delegate to the United Nations
and selected her to serve as chair of the Commission on the Status of
Women.
• She wrote several books
• She died in 1967

Hillary Clinton

• Born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago as Hillary Rodham.

• She went to Yale University Law School
• She was interested in issues related to poor and disadvantaged children.
• A staff-lawyer by the Children's Defense Fund
• Investigated the Watergate Scandal
• In 1975 she married Bill Clinton.
• Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters
• In 1993 she became the First Lady of the U.S.

• Force on National Health Care

• Speech at Beijing for women’s rights

• In 2000 elected for a seat in the U.S. Senate from New York
• After 9/11 she focused on rebuilding the city
• In 2008 she campaigned for the election of Barack Obama and Joe
Bidden
• She became the third female Secretary of State
Marilyn Monroe

• Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles, California

• She has been married and divorced three times:

• Jimmy Dougherty
• Joe DiMaggio
• Arthur Miller

• She did modeling and drama classes

• She changed her name into Marilyn Monroe
• She was n

• amed as:

• the Best New Actress of 1953

• She won the Golden Globe and Best Actress in a Comedy

• She died in her sleep at the age of 36

• Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.
• During her career, she performed in 31 movies, of which one unfinished.
• She was more than a movie star or glamour queen

• A global sensation, star status and an icon

• Known for her beauty, sensuality and effervescence

• She was the inspiration for many other actresses

Julia Roberts

• born in Atlanta
• American Actress, who won multiple awards
• First actress to appear on cover of Vogue
• She first wanted to be a veterinary
• One of highest- paid actresses
• She is an UNICEF ambassadress
• She is married to actor Lyle Lovett (2 years)
• She married a cameraman; Danny Moder
• She has 3 children
• Hinduism
Harriet Beecher Stowe

• born June 14, 1811

• Harriet believed her purpose in life was to write.
• Her earliest publication: a geography for children.
• Married widower Calvin Stowe.
• She wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, children's books,
and adult novels.
• died at the age of 85.
• Described life for African-Americans under slavery in her most famous
book: Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The book contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War
• Tthe best-seller Uncle Tom’s Cabin:

• focused on Tom and Eliza, mother of 4-yearold Harry.

• Eliza runs away (dramatic escape over the frozen Ohio River) with
Harry in her arms.
• Eliza and her family reach Canada.
• Tom doesn’t run away so the others may stay together.
• Tom's freedom comes with death (whipped to death)

• Harriot Beecher Stowe continued to write/work to improve society.

• Stowe undertook two speaking tours to promote her progressive ideals.

Rosa Parks

• Born in Alabama
• Worked with the NAACP to improve the lot of African-Americans
• Refused to give up her bus seat, because she was tired of the treatment
to African Americans
• Arrested for violating a city ordinance
• But a movement that ended legal segregation started
• The bus incident led to

• Formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association

(M.L. King Jr.)
• A boycott of the bus company

• She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-
Development
• She died in 2005, at the age of 92, Detroit