And The Women's History Winner Is ...
Duke senior names nine of 12 famous women in Gothic Bookshop contest
It took Carrie Mills about 30 minutes to put names to the 12 photos in the Gothic Bookshop window in honor of Women's History Month.
A senior at Duke, Mills correctly identified nine of 12 famous women and won a Penguin Book tote bag with four of Penguin's most popular new paperbacks.
"I got six or seven of the names really quickly but then had to think about the others," said Mills, an African American Studies major whose history classes helped her place some women pictured.
She only missed Francis Perkins, first woman member of the U.S. Cabinet; Jeanette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to congress; and Elizabeth Keckley, a slave from Hillsborough, NC, who eventually bought her freedom and became Mary Lincoln's dressmaker.
Kathy World, manager of the Gothic Bookshop, said the contest was a fun way to highlight Women's History Month in March. "It was interesting to see which women were most well known," she said.
The 12 women pictured in the contest were:
- Elizabeth Keckley (former slave who became Mary Lincoln's dressmaker and wrote her autobiography: "Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House."
- Frances Perkins (first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet - secretary of labor under Franklin Roosevelt)
- Geraldine Ferraro (first woman vice presidential candidate)
- Gloria Steinem (feminist, journalist, political activist)
- Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angelina - abolitionists and women's suffragists)
- Ida B. Wells (journalist, civil rights and women's rights activist)
- Jeanette Rankin (first woman elected to U.S. Congress)
- Lucretia Mott (abolitionist and women's suffragist)
- Mary Edwards Walker (Civil War physician and the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor)
- Sojourner Truth (abolitionist and women's suffragist)
- Susan B. Anthony (women's suffragist)