Joanna Scutts

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This Piano Prodigy Was the First African-American Woman to Host Her Own TV Show

She was also a "tabloid fixture"

By Joanna Scutts

The Woman Who Helped Save New York City's Historic Buildings

Before she came along, a favorite building was doomed to demolition

By Joanna Scutts

A Brief, Unfunny History of Bad Moms

The idea that mothers needed to be shamed and tamed can be traced back to Sigmund Freud

By Joanna Scutts

The Woman Who Worked to Save 19th-Century Victims of Sex Trafficking

She was born into slavery

By Joanna Scutts

The Society Girl Who Became a Martyr for Women's Suffrage

By the time she graduated from college in 1909, Inez Milholland was on her way to being nationally famous

By Joanna Scutts

The Manhattan Project Physicist Who Fought for Equal Rights for Women

The world she graduated into, on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attacks, was rife with sexism and anti-Asian racism

By Joanna Scutts

The Mysterious Woman Behind J.P. Morgan's Library

Belle da Costa Greene knew the power of secrets

By Joanna Scutts

The Woman Who Kicked Down Wall Street's Doors

Muriel Siebert was used to being the only woman in the room

By Joanna Scutts

The Journalist Who Lived at the White House

Her relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt has long raised eyebrows

By Joanna Scutts

The Writer Once Called 'The World's Greatest Girl Reporter'

She was also called the "Mother-Confessor of Hollywood" for her talent at extracting sob-stories from starlets

By Joanna Scutts

The Writer Who Taught American Women How to Live Alone

Her work encouraged single women of the 1930s to remake themselves as chic, independent “Live-Aloners”

By Joanna Scutts

The Woman Who Changed the Game for Black Writers

Dorothy West got her literary start as a teenager

By Joanna Scutts
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