The recent death of Shirley Temple Black has brought many newspaper articles about her uplifting effect as a child actor. It was maintained that with her acting, singing and dancing, she actually helped people who suffered through the Great Depression. In this month’s enewsletter, we feature two women who were early entertainers in America: Sissieretta Jones and Molly Picon.
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During the months of November and December, many Americans traveled to see their family and friends – in both the U.S. and around the world. Although that travel may have been full of its own difficulties and delays, we are fortunate today to have the opportunity to fly almost anywhere in the world. We do this conveniently and in a relatively short time (you may know that the Mayflower took two months to get to America!). Two women who were aviation pioneers helped make flying possible for all of us. This month we feature Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart.
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In December 2013, General Motors announced that its first woman CEO would take the reins in January 2014. As 
part of the celebration of Mary Barra’s achievement in being the first woman to head a major automobile company, this month we profile two women business leaders from our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. The women we selected were early business leaders: Rebecca Webb Lukens and Rose Markward Knox.
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