she was the first african-american woman to own her own production company also a talented actress...
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•She was the first African-American woman to own her own production company
• Also a talented actress nominated for an Academy Award in her first movie
• Television's highest-paid entertainer
• When she was nineteen months old an illness left Helr deaf, blind, and mute.
• Though a wild, destructive child, she showed such signs of intelligence that her mother sent for a special teacher.
• The child loved to learn, and her remarkable achievements in reading, writing and even speaking soon made her internationally famous.
• She taught school in New Rochelle and Canajoharie, NY, and discovered that male teachers were paid several times her salary.
• She devoted her first reform efforts to anti-slavery and to temperance, the campaign to curb alcohol.
• But when she rose to speak in a temperance convention, she was told, "The sisters were not invited here to speak!"
• She was married to her younger brother Ptolemy XIII when he was twelve.
• She was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.
• She was the sole ruler of Egypt.
• The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, she opened the skies to other women.
• In 1937 while attempting to become the first person to fly around the world, Earhart’s plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
• Founder of a religious group of nuns in Calcutta.
• She devoted her life to aiding sick and poor people throughout the world.
• She was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless.