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National Women’s History Month
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Betty Bone Schliess (1923-2017)
Led the successful effort to have women ordained priests in the Episcopal Church in America
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)
First native-born American Saint
Rev. Doctor Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919)
Ordained minister, physician, ardent feminist—and first woman to earn the Distinguished Service Medal
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945)
Founder of Hadassah, American-born Jewish Zionist leader
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
The “traveling Preacher” and first African-American woman to speak publicly against slavery
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