1. Outstanding Women of the 1920s

2. Alice Paul
Mother of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1923.
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex".
As of 2004, this amendment has still not passed.
HBO’s 2004 movie “Iron Jawed Women” (starring Hilary Swank) is about Alice Paul’s struggle for suffrage.
It is outstanding.

4. Madame C.J. Walker
She established a cosmetics line for African American women.
Her company was the forerunner of Avon and Mary Kay cosmetics.
She became a millionaire and a philanthropist.

6. Amelia Earhart
In 1928, she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air.
She died in the Pacific Ocean on an around-the-world flight.

7. Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith was one of the most popular and highest-paid blues singers.
The blues was a prime source for the form of music known as jazz.
She performed with Louis Armstrong and influenced Billie Holiday

8. Dorothy Parker Began as the drama critic for Vanity Fair.
Became theater critic and book reviewer for the prestigious magazine, The New Yorker.
Member of the literary group known as the Algonquin Club.
She remembered as much for her cutting wit and pessimistic short stories.

10. Martha Graham The queen of modern dance.
In 1926, she opened her dance studio in New York City.
Martha Graham's impact on dance was staggering, like Picasso's impact on painting.

11. Georgia O’Keeffe
She drew inspiration from nature, mostly scenes from the desert Southwest.
She lived near Taos, New Mexico.

12. Gertrude Ederle
In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
The 35-mile swim between France and England took her 35 hours.
In 1924, she won a gold medal in the Olympics.

13. Aimee Semple McPherson
She was a Pentecostal minister, speaking in tongues and faith healing.
In 1922, she built a large temple in Los Angeles.
In 1926, she disappeared and the reappeared, claiming that she had been kidnapped.

14. Margaret Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood.
She was trained as a nurse.
In 1912, she wrote a newspaper column entitled, "What Every Girl Should Know."
In 1916, she opened the first family planning clinic and was arrested.
Her organization became Planned Parenthood.