María del Carmen Millán

Mexican literature was the enduring passion of María del Carmen Millán (1914-1982). She taught it in her lectures, explored it in her writings, and promoted it in the collective works and collections she edited.

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Lillian Smith

Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.

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Leila Denmark

Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at the age of 103. In seventy years of practice, Denmark rarely charged patients more than ten dollars for an office consultation, and it was not unusual for her to spend an hour counseling a new mother.

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Julia Flisch

Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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