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Women's Educational and Industrial Union

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The Women's Educational and Industrial Union (1877-2006) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded by physician Harriet Clisby for the advancement of women and to help women and children in the industrial city. [1]

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Abby Morton Diaz

Abby Morton Diaz (November 22, 1821 – April 1, 1904) was a teacher, women's rights organizer, and industrial reformer.

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Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.

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Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Barbara Lynch (restaurateur)

Barbara Lynch is a restaurateur.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston Public Library

The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1848.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Credit union

A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, controlled by its members and operated on the principle of people helping people, providing its members credit at competitive rates as well as other financial services.

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Crittenton Women's Union

Crittenton Women's Union (CWU) is a Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit organization whose mission is to help low-income women and their families reach economic self-sufficiency.

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Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. is Dean and Professor at Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA..

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, and political commentator.

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Filene's

Filene's (originally Filene’s Sons and Co.) was an American department store chain; it was founded by William Filene in 1881.

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Gwen Ifill

Gwendolyn L. "Gwen" Ifill (September 29, 1955 – November 14, 2016) was an American Peabody Award-winning journalist, television newscaster, and author.

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Harriet Clisby

Harriet Clisby (1830-1931) was an English physician, women's rights activist, and founder of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston.

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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

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Jordan Marsh

Jordan Marsh (officially Jordan Marsh & Company) was an American department store chain that was headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and operated throughout New England.

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Julia Child

Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 12, 2004) was an American chef, author and television personality.

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Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American poet and author, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." She was also an advocate for abolitionism and was a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage.

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Liz Walker (journalist)

Liz Walker, the first black woman to co-anchor a newscast in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).

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Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children.

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Mary Morton Kehew

Mary Morton Kehew (September 8, 1859 – February 13, 1918) was an American labor and social reformer.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Ruth Simmons

Ruth Simmons (born Ruth Jean Stubblefield; July 3, 1945) is the current President of Prairie View A&M University.

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Simmons College

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Suze Orman

Susan Lynn "Suze" Orman (born June 5, 1951 in Chicago) is an American author, financial advisor, motivational speaker, and television host.

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Women in medicine

Historically and presently, in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine (as physicians or surgeons for instance) has been significantly restricted.

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Women's Rest Tour Association

The Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston, Massachusetts comprised a network of middle-class members who collected information about travel abroad and shared it among like-minded American women who required trustworthy non-commercial and unsolicited confidential recommendations suitable for women "who desire to visit Europe at the least possible expense consistent with comfort".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Educational_and_Industrial_Union

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