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Wife of Biltmore estate owner, George Vanderbilt, Edith Vanderbilt arrived in North Carolina in 1898. She was president of the North Carolina State Fair from 1921-1924, the first woman president in the fair's history.
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Born in Baltimore and raised in Durham, Murray became an activist for civil rights long before the 1960s Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she helped form the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE). Among many firsts, in the mid 1970s, she became the first African American woman priest ordained by the Episcopal Church,
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Darden was born in Monroe (Union County" .Her life story was one of those included in the book, Hidden Figures: "The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race " (2016). She is recognized as one of the world's top experts on supersonic wing design and sonic boom mitigation.
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Many colleges for women in North Carolina began in the late 1800s. Most were actually more akin to high schools and did not offer degrees. the first state run college for women in the state was established in Greensboro in 1891.
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Barker is recognized prominently among a group of women in Edenton who protested a tax on tea in1774. Their action goes down in history as the first recorded political demonstration by women in America.
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