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"Stagecoach" Mary Fields
Pistol-packing, liquor-swigging, 6'2" black postal carrier/babysitter of the Wild West.
Ida B. Wells
One of the first anti-lynching advocates, she risked her life for decades to report on the truth when nobody would believe her.
Hypatia
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Wilma Rudolph
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Takeko Nakano
When the end of an era was at hand, this samurai woman refused to go gently.
Andamana
Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
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The godmother of rock and roll, this black bisexual singer fused gospel and pop to blaze her own way across the Jim Crow-era south.