1821-1910

Presents a collection of brief biographical sketches of individuals that were leaders, including Elizabeth Blackwell, Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller, and Jackie Robinson, describing their accomplishments.

"In the 1830's, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Career options were few. But Elizabeth refused to accept these common beliefs and would not take no for an answer. This inspiring story of the first female doctor in America shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all the female doctors to come."--Container.

This introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.

Presents a short biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, who in 1849 became the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and discusses the challenges she faces and her efforts to provide better health care to women and children.

Follows the life of the woman who founded Christian Science.

A biography recounting the struggles and achievements of the first woman doctor in the United States.

A biography of the first woman doctor written as if she herself were relating her struggles to become a physician and open the field of medicine to women.

A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first woman doctor, drawing from eyewitness accounts, diary entries, newspaper clippings, and other documents to examine her work as a physician and crusader for women's rights in the mid-1800s.