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The University Library helped launch a website celebrating the accomplishments of U of I women

The site was a collaboration between the library and the Gender Equity Council and spans the 150 years of the existence of the university. You can scroll through biographies of the first African-American woman to graduate from the U of I, Maudelle Brown, Bousfield and Tatyana McFadden, famed paralympic athlete, and decades worth of other accomplished women. You can read more about it here.

Collage by Eric Todd Wilson via Illinois New Bureau

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