Wonder Woman #50: Ellen Swallow Richards, 1950s
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Excerpt from “Wonder Woman #50: Ellen Swallow Richards,” part of a women’s history feature of the DC Comics Wonder Woman series that appeared in the 1940s and 50s.
Ellen H. Swallow Richards '73 was the first woman to be admitted to MIT. She graduated with the Class of 1873 and went on to serve as an instructor in sanitary chemistry from 1884 until her death in 1911. Booker T. Washington looked to MIT as a model to develop a sound curriculum at Tuskegee Institute.