Jeannette Cook says she attends four or five jewelry shows a year where she teaches workshops and sells her products.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

For the first time in her life, Sarah left the area along the Mississippi River where she was born.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

She says she researches her family history because she wants to know where she came from, who her ancestors were.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Her family later sent her to a care center where she lived until her death in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

"Now we will be late." My sister attends a small college where she is one of the smartest students.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

In nineteen eighteen, Madam Walker finally settled in a town near New York City where she built a large, beautiful house.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Around 1901, Mrs. Gardner moved into the 4th floor of the museum, where she would live for the rest of her life.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

In eighteen twenty-one, Mary Lyon went to another private school where she was taught by Reverend Joseph Emerson.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

The idea for it came when a mother told her that there were no summer camps where she could send her disabled child.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Her birthplace was not far from the Hollywood movie studios where she would someday be a star.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

But she later remembered with great pleasure her childhood years in the home where she was born.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

She went on to Tennessee State University where she earned a degree in speech and performing arts.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

He led her back to her room where she waited once more, alone with her thoughts.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

She worked for a top law firm in Chicago where she met her future husband.

VOA: special.2009.01.16