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Morgan Schulte's career booking live entertainment for the Town of Normal started at the Hammitt School. She brought musicians into her special education classroom to foster empathy and coping skills.
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Jill Hutchison was a pioneer for women's college sports, starting at a time when they were an afterthought at best, and at worst, were assumed to be unsafe.
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Deanne Bryant launched a district-wide Unit 5 string program in 1969, ensuring access to instruments often left out of school curriculums. Five decades later, Bloomington-Normal is lauded statewide for its high quality music education.
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Caribel Washington made history, and then she made sure history wouldn’t forget. She became a civil rights pioneer, faith leader and humanitarian. She died in 2011.
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Jeanne Morris, an educator and advocate, is one of WGLT's 21 Women Who Shaped Bloomington-Normal.
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Sonya Mau knows what happens when a community doesn’t invest in cultivating leaders from within. She's one of WGLT's 21 Women Who Shaped Bloomington-Normal.
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Willie Holton Halbert is one of WGLT's 21 Women Who Shaped Bloomington-Normal.
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March is Women’s History Month, and all this month WGLT is recognizing 21 women who shaped Bloomington-Normal. One will be featured every weekday. Follow along at WGLT.org/21Women.
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The Rev. Brigitte Black came to Bloomington in 2016 to become senior pastor of the historic Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church. She's one of WGLT's 21 Women Who Shaped Bloomington-Normal.
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Retired Chief Circuit Judge Beth Robb knew she wanted to be a lawyer as early as Junior High School in Macomb. It wasn't easy. She went to Illinois Wesleyan University and on to law school, then came back to Bloomington-Normal and couldn’t get a job