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## Art
- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [...and many more](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_scientists_before_the_20th_century)
## Social Change
- [Claudette Colvin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin): pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement; efused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did
- [Claudette Colvin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin): pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement; refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did
- [Barbara Gittings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Gittings): "mother of the gay rights movement"; part of the movement to get the APA to drop homosexuality as a mental illness
- [Temple Grandin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin): one of the first public figures to publically come out as Autistic; animal welfare activist that campaigned for humane treatment of cattle in beef processing plants
- [Maura Healey](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Healey?lang=en): first open lesbian elected attorney general of a USA state, one of the first LGBT governors of a USA state, and first woman elected governor of the state of Massachusetts
- [Judith Heumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann): held the longest sit-in in a government building for the enactment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (civil rights protection for disabled people)