Sometimes we’ll read a book or hear a story and think: “This ought to be made into a movie.” There are quite a number of women authors whose books have been made into movies – movies that we know and love!
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Two feature films and one documentary released in 2019 have featured women who are among those profiled in our book. The film titles are Judy, Harriet and Miss America By Day, whose subjects are Judy Garland, Harriet Tubman and Marilyn Van Derbur Atler, respectively. Let’s learn a little about each of these outstanding women.
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and lived in Philadelphia. Prior to the Civil War, she is estimated to have gone back to Maryland nineteen times and rescued 300 people from slavery.