JOURNALISTS

MARY LIVERMORE was an American journalist, philanthropist, and lecturer during the nineteenth century.  During the Civil War, she worked in hospitals, was a correspondent for numerous journals, an author, and edited her husband’s newspaper.  She was the only woman reporter at Lincoln’s nomination.  After the Civil War she was active in temperance, suffrage, and abolitionist movements.

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (1904-1971) was the first female photojournalist, working for Fortune magazine and Life magazine. She published photos of the depression in a book, “You have Seen Their Faces”. During World War II, she documented military action in Africa and Europe.  Bourke-White later photographed Gandhi’s non-violent protests in India.  Her images of the Great Depression, WWII, and the liberation of the concentration camps reveal the startling human side of historical events.

QUIZ: Who said, “Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people”?

 

ANSWER: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 

Sources:  www.historyswomen.com   www.nwhp.com