THESIS
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Library of Congress control number: 2024940366
ISBN 9780593541678 (hardcover)
ISBN 9780593541685 (ebook)
Cover design and illustration: Brian Lemus
Book design by Chris Welch, adapted for ebook by Kelly Brennan
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CONTENTS
Introduction New York, 1804
Angel of the Rockies
One Clara Brown, Kentucky, 1830s
Two Bleeding Kansas, 1850s
Three Clara Brown, Colorado, 1870s
The Next Needed Thing
Four Virginia Randolph, Virginia, 1890
Five Henrico County, Virginia, 1907
America the Beautiful
Six Katharine Lee Bates, Cape Cod, 1859
Seven Katharine Lee Bates, England, 1880s
Eight Katharine Lee Bates, Chicago, 1890s
Forward Out of Darkness
Nine Inez Milholland, New York, 1910
Ten Maria de Lopez, California, 1911
Eleven Rebecca Brown Mitchell, Idaho, 1856
Twelve Inez Milholland, the West, 1916
Thirteen France, 1916
An Orientation of the Spirit
Fourteen Anna Thomas Jeanes, Philadelphia, 1822
Fifteen William James Edwards, Alabama, 1869
Sixteen Julius Rosenwald, Illinois, 1862
Seventeen Booker T. Washington, Virginia, 1856
Go for Broke
