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Leila McNeill

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The First Female MIT Student Started an All-Women Chemistry Lab

Ellen Swallow Richards applied chemistry to the home to advocate for consumer safety and women's education.

by Leila McNeill via Smithsonian on December 18, 2018
The Woman Who Transformed How We Teach Geography

By blending education and activism, Zonia Baber made geography a means of uniting—not conquering—the globe.

by Leila McNeill via Smithsonian on January 18, 2018
How A Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation

Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited “doll test” and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education.

by Leila McNeill via Smithsonian on October 26, 2017

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