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Charlotte Black Elk
Antoinette Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell MD
Amelia Bloomer

Charlotte Black Elk Contemporary Native Americans

Charlotte Black Elk
b. 1951; Pine Ridge Reservation

In the Lakota Sioux religion, the Black Hills are the most sacred of all places. Near those hills, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, lives Charlotte Black Elk, the great granddaughter of the famous Lakota spiritual leader Nicholas Black Elk.

Charlotte was born on the reservation in 1951. She spoke only the Lakota language until first grade. But when she started school her family encouraged her to learn English. “We were told to learn it better than white people,” she says, “so that no one cold ever lie to us in a language we didn't understand.”

Ms. Black Elk's tribe has been lied to before. The U.S. government had promised the Sioux that their sacred lands, the Black Hills, would never be taken away. But in 1874, gold was discovered in the Black Hills, and the government broke its promise and took control of the area. Today, Ms. Black Elk is campaigning to get these lands returned to her tribe. She is working to educate people about the Black Hills, their importance to the Sioux, and the treaties the U.S. government broke. To keep her heritage alive, she has passed her Lakota language and religion on to the children. “I was told my generation would make its own choices to remain Lakota or choose to walk away.” she has written. “I'm confident of our survival as a people.”

• Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
• Contemporary Native Americans posters

Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell
b. 5-20-1825; Henrietta, NY
d. 11-5-1921; Elizabeth, NJ

Antoinette Louisa Brown, the first woman to be ordained as a minister in the United States, used her religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights.

Brown earned her tuition to Oberlin College by teaching school for four years. After earning her degree she was finally able to get permission to attend the theological seminary provided that she receive no recognition.

She was the was a sister-in-law to Elizabeth Blackwell and Lucy Stone.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell quotes ~
• “Women are needed in the pulpit as imperatively and for the same reason that they are needed in the world — because they are women. Women have become — or when the ingrained habit of unconscious imitation has been superseded, they will become—indispensable to the religious evolution of the human race.”
Elizabeth Blackwell quotes:
• “Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.”
• “For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”
• “If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”

• The Sexes Throughout Nature (1875)

Elizabeth Blackwell
b. 2-3-1821; England
d. 5-31-1910

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman earn a Medical Doctor (MD) degree and become a doctor in the United States (1849), was from a Quaker family active as abolitionists and in the women's suffrage movement.

To prepare herself for medical school Blackwell boarded with physicians in order to read in their libraries as she taught school to earn money for a medical education.

Only one school admitted Blackwell, Geneva Medical College, and she was allowed to attend only because the male students voted her in as a joke. After graduation she was banned from U.S. teaching hospitals so she interned at La maternité, Paris, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. In 1857, she, along with her sister Emily (3rd woman medical graduate) and Marie Zakrzewska (also a physician), set up the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, after years of professional and social shunning. Blackwell helped trained nurses in the US Civil War, and in 1868 established the Women's Medical College.

Blackwell returned to England, and with Florence Nightingale opened a medical school for women there.

Elizabeth Blackwell was a sister-in-law to Lucy Stone.

Elizabeth Blackwell quotes ~
• “Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.”
• “For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”
• “If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”

• Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Physician (Great Life Stories)
• National Library of Medicine
• Heroes of Science & Technology posters

Amelia Jenks Bloomer
b. 5-27-1818; Cortland Co., NY
d. 12-30-1894; Council Bluffs, IA

Amelia Bloomer, whose early adoption of women's trousers based on the clothing of women in the Middle East and Central Asia, led to her married name forever being associated with the fashion.

Bloomer, as the editor and publisher of The Lily, her newspaper advocating temperance and feminine rights, provided a voice for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer quotes ~
• “The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance.”
• “Man represents us, legislates for us, and now holds himself accountable for us! How kind in him, and what a weight is lifted from us! We shall no longer be answerable to the laws of God or man, no longer be subject to punishment for breaking them.”

Evangeline Cory Booth
b. 12-25-1865; London, England
d. 7-17-1950; Hartsdale, NY

Evangeline Booth was selling the Salvation Army's paper The War Cry in the slums of East London at the age of fifteen and was the 4th General of the Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939.