6Pearson's International Women's Day 2020

Florence Nightingale was a young lady who was born in  the city of Florence. she was born on May 12,1820 and died on August 13,1910. Florence loved math and science so one day she became a nurse. she would take note of all the people who were alive and how big the city was. when she went to a hospital near the war she soon realized that the soldiers were dying because of a disease in the hospital from the nurses not washing their hands in between surgeries. Florence Nightingale had made sure that every nurse had washed their hands and that with all of them washing their hands almost all of the soldiers went home safely to there homes.

Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was an extremly brave civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregrated bus in the 1950s because she didnt believe that she had to move due to her race even though it was a law at the time. This sparked a fight to end racial segretation. Because of her acts, she was rewarded 3 times (Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the National Association For Advancement of Coloured People, the Congressial Metal and President Metal of Freedom.   "People always said that i didnt give up my seat because I was tired, but that isnt true. No, I was not tired physically.. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." -Rosa Parks

Nellie Mooney McClung was a Canadian author, social activist and politician. She was part of the social and moral reform movements in Western Canada in the early 1900s. She is part of The Famous Five, a group of five women who decided they wanted women to be classified as persons. These women are Nellie McClung, Ellie Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Edwards. Nellie was born in 1873 on October 20th and died on September 1st, 1951. She won the right for women to vote and for women to be considered as people, obviously. Her great causes were women's suffrage and the temperance. Women's suffrage is the right for women to vote. She was a good person and an extremely amazing role model, I look up to her. She is an amazing woman.

Emma Gonzalez Emma Gonzalez is gun control activist and is because she is a survivor of a shooting in 2018 in February at a high school in parkland Florida and since the shooting Gonzalez is a force of resistance through her impassioned speeches and also through her social media presence. and she really wants stricter gun laws and once told everyone in a speech about gun violence.

Wilma Goldean Rudolph was born on July 23, 1940, in St. Bethlehem, Tennessee. She had a very large and poor family. Her father, Ed Rudolph, had 11 children from a previous marriage and had 8 more children with Wilmas Mother, Blanche Rudolph. Wilma married two men but they both ended in divorce. Wilma went on to become a pioneering African American track and feild champion, but her trail to victory was bumpy. Wilma was diagnosed with double pnumonia, scarlet fever, and polio as a child. She had problems with her left leg and had to wear a brace. She got help from a physical therapy and she was able to overcome her disabilities. Wilma became a world record holding Olympics champion and international icon is track and feild. Later in life Wilma formed a Wilma Rudolph foundation to promote amateur athletics.  Wilma died on Nevember 12, 1994, in Brentwood, Tennessee, after losing the battle of brain cancer. -Lola

Emma Watson BY: Oliver.Lindsay          Emma Watson was born on April 15, 1990. Emma Watson as we all know her is the brainiac Hermonie. But she also was a part of the UN and a model for Vogue. She was born in Paris and moved to Oxfordshire. Watson attended a dragon school and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach. Emma Watson launched he for she campaign about gender equality, It was founded on July 20, 2014. She made $60 million for all eight harry potter movies. Emma Watson now lives in London apartment, but also in New York.