Women+of+Education

improved education opportunities for all african americans __** pic http://havengirls.com/tag/mary-mcleod-bethune/ **__
 * __Mary McLeod Bethune__**

__**Elizabeth Blackwell 1st**__ First woman doctor. taught many women how to be doctors pic http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_35.html

**__Marjorie Lee Browne__** one of the first african american women to get a doctorate in mathematics pic http://www.jameslogancourier.org/index.php?itemid=4186

__**Winifred Merrill 1st**__ First woman to get a Ph.D in mathematics. taught for many years pic http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/merrill.htm

**__Elizabeth Palmer Peabody__** founded the Kindergarden for young students and wrote many books supporting it pic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peabody

provided funds for the new Kindergartens that Elizabeth Peabody had founded pic http://www.jphs.org/people/2005/4/14/jamaica-plain-women-who-made-history.html
 * __Pauline Agassiz Shaw__**

taught Helen Keller. pic http://www.pustakalaya.org/wiki/wp/a/Anne_Sullivan_Macy.htm
 * __Anne Sullivan__**

founded a large private school. it is now a college pic http://www.unsv.com/voanews/specialenglish/scripts/2007/06/03/0045/
 * __Mary Lyon__**

became a teacher at age 17 and founded her own school six years later. after 10 years of teaching she left to become a nurse pic http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm
 * __Clarissa Harlowe Barton__**

pursued a higher education than what was given to her. she was a role model for many women. pic http://www.awesomestories.com/assets/photo-anne-hutchinson
 * __Anne Hutchinson__**

__**Mary Hemenway**__ was Boston's wealthiest woman in the 19th century. donated a lot of money to help further education and charities pic http://www.nps.gov/cagr/historyculture/historicfigures.htm

__**Josephine Hoeppner 1st**__ pic http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/womensgraduation.html