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Gertrude Hadley Jeanette: First Woman Licensed to Drive a Taxi in New York City

The city of New York hired Gertrude Hadley Jeanette, as its first woman licensed taxi driver in 1942. Jeanette also later became a notable film and stage actress and playwright. Jeanette was born in Urbana, Arkansas in 1914 to a mother who was a homemaker and father who taught on a Native American reservation. During […]

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