they shud be of the 19th and 20th centuries only
2007-01-05 17:24:36 · 4 answers · asked by IM 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Well I think that Madame Du Farge, the woman with the knitting needles that knitted sweaters while watching the heads lopped off by the guillotine. ha ha What a world eh?
Betsy Ross?
Queen Elizabeth I
Bloody Mary, or Mary Tudor , Mary Queen of Scots, ( she got her head cut off too, I guess it doesnt pay to be a revolutionary).
Helen Keller
Lillian Hellman(successful playright)
Bette Davis(stood up and sued Warner Bros. and won)
Joan Crawford(Pepsi Cola)
Colleen Moore( Merril Lynch Fenner and Pearce) she got her husband to be bullish on america and made the ever so popular Stock brokers team)Fact.
Madame Curie (scientist)
Eleanor Roosevelt(first lady of the white house, and held down the fort while her husband was too ill).
Annie Oakley(Woman marksman with the Buffalo Bill Road Show)
Harriet Tudman(underground railroad for slaves to escape)
Shirley Chisolm ( Black Woman Senator)
Mayor Jane Byrne ( the very first woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois)
2007-01-05 18:03:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harriet Beecher Stowe (anti-slavery during the Civil War), Rosa Parks (civil rights, 1960's), Amelia Earhart (aviation), Indira Ghandi (Indian politician), Golda Meir (Israeli politician), Margaret Thatcher, Florence Nightengale (female nurse), Marie Curie (scientist), Grace Hopper (progammed the Mark 1 computer), Coco Chanel (fashion design), Isadora Duncan (dance), Margot Fonteyn (ballet choreography)
All these women did revolutionary things in their chosen fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutionnaries
2007-01-05 17:58:23 · answer #2 · answered by Mmerobin 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
joan of arc
evita peron
2007-01-05 17:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
susan b. anthony is a good one
2007-01-05 17:54:20 · answer #4 · answered by james p 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋