Category: snapshot biography

Audrey Hepburn was a star amongst the stars. An icon of film and fashion and a humanitarian who dedicated herself to helping those in need. Born in Brussels, Be...

Born in Los Angeles in 1905 as Wong Liu-Tsong, she would become an actress, known to the world as Anna May Wong. Anna May fell in love with movies at a young ag...

Inman E. Page escaped enslavement with his family when he was ten years old. Fourteen years later, in 1877, Inman, who had become known as an eloquent orator, w...

Vida Goldstein was arguably the most famous woman in Australia in the early 1900s. Charming and well-spoken, an ardent fighter for equality and peace, Vida beli...

Her parents were the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize. She and her husband were the second. Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897 to Marie and P...

People called Mary McLeod Bethune “The First Lady of The Struggle.” The struggle being improving life for African Americans. Born in 1875 in a small...

Ida B. Wells was sixteen years old when her parents and a younger brother passed away from yellow fever in 1878. As she coped with their death, Ida also challen...

Born in New York City in 1862, Edith Wharton grew up in the comforts of a family of wealth and prestige, but as part of a high society of strict rules that encu...

Josephine Baker was described as “The most sensational woman anybody ever saw. Or ever will.”  Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906, Josephine exper...

Claude Monet loved art from a young age. While classmates were doing classwork, he was filling his workbooks with drawings. His father, however, wanted Claude t...