Elizabeth Keckly was a slave who became an excellent seamstress. She bought her way out of slavery and became seamstress to Mary Lincoln.| America Comes Alive
Annie Oakley taught herself to shoot a gun, because she needed to help put food on her family's table. She became remarkably good at it!| America Comes Alive
The Harvey Girls were hired by Fred Harvey who saw that women waitresses were better prepared to serve in his railroad restaurants.| America Comes Alive