JULY 16: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, was born today in 1821.


Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a journalist, newspaper editor, and civil rights leader, was born today in 1862.


Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck, an actress who started as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1922, was born today in 1907. She was highest paid woman in the United States in 1944.