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Marian Anderson

Civil rights icon and African American contralto, who had a ground-breaking career in classical music from the mid-1920s through the late 1950s.

Caterina Galli

Italian opera singer and composer

Although her ideas were considered less radical as the nineteenth century drew to a close, in her emphasis on the value of work for women and on the right of women to lead their own lives, Mary Taylor was more uncompromising than most feminists of her time.