• Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 28, 1991) was a leader in the American civil rights movement. On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16...
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    Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2020. "John Swigert Jr". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on October...
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    Florence Barbara Seibert (October 6, 1897 – August 23, 1991) was an American biochemist. She is best known for identifying the active agent in the antigen...
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    disenfranchisement of Black Texans under Jim Crow. Barbara Jordan was the youngest of three children, with siblings Rose Mary Jordan McGowan and Bennie Creswell...
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    751, 846, 873. Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. San Diego: Harcourt Brace. p. xv. Lemley, John; Johns, Myke (August 28, 2013)...
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    Hutchinson Barbara Iglewski Shirley Ann Jackson Victoria Jackson Mary Jacobi Frances Wisebart Jacobs Mae Jemison Katherine Johnson Barbara Rose Johns Mary Harris...
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    Sen. Barbara Mikulski, now a Johns Hopkins professor, to receive two honorary degrees". The Hub. May 12, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017. "Barbara Mikulski...
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    Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    Rosalynn Carter (redirect from Rose Carter)
    among other speakers including Betty Ford, Bella Abzug, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Audrey Colom, Claire Randall, Gerridee Wheeler, Cecilia Burciaga...
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    since 1909, with one of Barbara Rose Johns Powell and the Lee statue was removed December 20–21, 2020. A statue of Uriah M. Rose, "an attorney who sided...
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    Dority. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini: Cecchina's Dream. Illustrated by Barbara Kiwak. Boston: Pauline Books, 2005. Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first canonized...
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  • nonfiction children's books. The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement (2014) won the Jane Addams...
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    Lynes, Barbara Buhler (1999). Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art. ISBN 978-0-300-08176-3. Lynes, Barbara Buhler;...
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    Julia Child (category Writers from Santa Barbara, California)
    purposes. The Julia Child rose, known in the UK as the "Absolutely Fabulous" rose, is a golden butter/gold floribunda rose named after Child. The exhibits...
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  • desegregate such facilities. Ms. Johns noted that one of her inspirations was her uncle, Rev. Johns. In May 1953, Johns was forced to resign as pastor in...
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    where she led the expansion of food and nutrition programs for the poor and rose to party leadership. She retired from Congress in 1983 and taught at Mount...
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    children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald. Her siblings included U.S. President and Senator John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U...
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    the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2008. Barbara A. Perry in Rose Kennedy, the Life and Times of a Political Matriarch ISBN 978-0-393-06895-5...
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    original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2012. Bush, Barbara (2015). Barbara Bush: A Memoir. Scribner. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-5011-1778-7. "Sisters...
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    Dissertations in American Studies, 1996–1997". American Quarterly. 50 (2). Johns Hopkins University Press: 447–469. June 1998. doi:10.1353/aq.1998.0019....
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    (written 1860, published 1889) “Young America” (1861) "With A Rose That Bloomed on the Day of John Brown’s Martyrdom" (1862) "Thoreau's Flute" (1863) "In the...
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    Caron (2023). American Slavery on Film. Hollywood History series. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-7752-0. Larson, Kate Clifford (2004). Bound...
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    the sociobiological backgrounds of Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, J. Adam Johns describes how Butler's narratives counteract the death drive behind the...
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    Robert E. Lee, Virginia (removed in 2020, to be replaced later by Barbara Rose Johns) Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri (removed in favor of Harry S. Truman...
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    Thurgood Marshall (category United States court of appeals judges appointed by John F. Kennedy)
    Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04687-0. Vile, John R., ed. (2003). Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Santa Barbara: ABC–CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-989-8...
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    education and raises for teachers. Barry also supported the appointment of Barbara Sizemore as the district's superintendent, making of the District of Columbia...
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    Pearl S. Buck (redirect from John Sedges)
    Lynchburg, Virginia, then returned to China. From 1914 to 1932, after marrying John Lossing Buck, she served as a Presbyterian missionary, but she came to doubt...
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    United States, although such titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women in American history who were both married to...
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    Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the...
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    Ramblers, one of whose members, John Cohen, married Pete's half-sister Penny, also a talented singer, who died young. Barbara Seeger joined her siblings in...
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