Powerful Photos Of Women Who Changed History Forever
Marty Mcfly
Published
12/17/2014
These 36 women have changed history forever by being strong, brave, and human, regardless of society's expectations for them.
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A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her from prosecution. Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. 1941 -
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Maud Wagner, the first well know female tattooist in the United States. 1907 -
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18 year old French Rsistance fighter, Simone Segouin, during the liberation of Paris. 19 August 1944 -
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Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. 1936 -
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Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the marathon organizer to stop her. 1967 -
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Afghan women at a public library before the Taliban seized power. c. 1950s -
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Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency. c. 1907 -
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The first womens basketball team from Smith College 1902 -
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Photograph of a samurai warrior. c. late 1800s -
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106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. 1990 -
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Women boxing on a roof in LA. 1933 -
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A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. 1985 -
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Women's league roller derby skaters in New York. March 10, 1950 -
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Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. 1961 -
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Members of the Hell's Angels gang. 1973 -
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Girls deliver heavy blocks of ice after male workers were conscripted 1918 -
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Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. October 23, 1917 -
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Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. 1936 -
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Anna Fisher, "the first mother in space" 1980s -
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Elspeth Beard, during her attempt to become the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. 1980s -
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A woman drinking tea in the aftermath of a German bombing raid during the London Blitz. 1940 -
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Winnie the Welder. 1943 -
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Jeanne Manford marches with her gay son during a Pride Parade. 1972 -
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Sabiha Gken of Turkey poses with her plane, in 1937 she became the first female fighter pilot. -
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Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor c. 1941 - 1945 -
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Railroad workers at lunch. Many were the wives and even mothers of the men who left for war. 1943 -
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Some of the first women sworn into US Marine Corps. August, 1918 -
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Ellen ONeal, one of the first professional female skaters. 1976 -
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Parisian mothers shield their children from German sniper fire. 1944 -
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Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. 1944 -
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Aviator Amelia Earhart after becoming the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. 1928 -
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A Los Angeles Police Officer looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk. 1971 -
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Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. May 4, 1945 -
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Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. October 1956 -
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American nurses land in Normandy. 1944 -
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A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier. c. 1917
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