Celebrating women's history.Dear Teacher, In this issue, JS spotlights two pioneering women: photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White (IPA: /ˌbɜrkˈʍaɪt/[1][2], June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photojournalist. and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As one of the first staff photographers for Life magazine, Bourke-White Bourke-White , Margaret 1906-1971. American photographer and writer. An editor of Life magazine (1936-1969), she photographed such diverse subjects as the rural South, Soviet life, and the release of concentration camp victims. recorded indelible images of World War II while on assignment in Europe and North Africa (see pp. 14-17). Her photographs of the horrors of Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, in July 1937, and one of the largest such camps on German soil. Camp prisoners worked primarily as slave labour in local armament factories. shocked the world. Pelosi is the first woman ever to serve as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (see p. 6). "People talk about the glass ceiling," Pelosi tells a Scholastic Student Reporter. "We have really broken the marble ceiling here." We hope that your students will be inspired by these trailblazing trail·blaz·ing adj. Suggestive of one that blazes a trail; setting out in a promising new direction; pioneering or innovative: trailblazing research; a trailblazing new technique. women. Suzanne McCabe, Editor smccabe@scholastic.com |
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