Twentieth-Century Women

Twentieth-Century Women


In honor of Women's History Month, this site from The National Portrait Gallery provides photographs and brief summaries of a selected sampling of some of the most influential women of the twentieth century, from Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. to Rosa Parks, Civil Rights pioneer, to Kathryn Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, and many more.

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Tim McGonagil