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• Pocahontas, 1595-1617: She Played an Important Part in the History of Jamestown, Virginia 400 Years Ago
• Evan Lutz: Giving Unused Produce A Purpose with Hungry Harvest
• Walt Whitman, 1819-1892: He Created a New Kind of Poetry
• Writer Dorothy West: Last Living Member of the Harlem Renaissance
• Doctor Spock, 1903-1998: The World’s Most Famous Baby Doctor
• Zarela Mosquera: Creating Messages Through Public Art and Design
• Betty Friedan: How She Was a Leader in the Modern Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.
• Edith Wharton, 1862-1937: Wrote Novels of the Young and Innocent in a Dishonest World
• Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000: First African-American to Win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature
• Mary Lyon, 1797-1849: A Leader in Women's Education in the Nineteenth Century