This fourth volume of biographies of women who have made distinctive contributions to American life includes 442 women who died from 1951 to 1975.

Social reform: Edith Abbott -- Emily Greene Balch -- Donaldina Mackenzie Cameron -- Mary Wiliams Dewson -- Lavinia Lloyd Dock -- Mary Elisabeth Dreier -- Helen Keller -- Frances Kellor -- Dorothy Kenyon -- Lucy Randolph Mason -- Frances Perkins -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt -- Rose Schneiderman -- Vida Dutton Scudder -- Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch -- Mary Church Terrell -- Mary Abby Van Kleeck -- Social research: Edith Abbott -- Joanna Carver Colcord -- Mary Williams Dewson -- Margaret Loyd Jarman Hagood -- Elizabeth Ross Haynes -- Frances Kellor -- Emma Octavia Lundberg -- Frieda Segelke Miller -- Mary White Ovington -- Mary Abby VanKleeck -- Theresa Wolfson -- Social Welfare: Ethel Percy Andrus -- Edith Terry Bremer -- Pearl Buck -- Ethel Sturges Dummer -- Helen Keller -- Rebekah Bettelheim Kohut -- Rose Hum Lee -- Edith Elizabeth Lowry -- Anne Tracy Morgan -- Mary Elizabeth Switzer -- Eartha Mary Magdalene White -- Social Work: Edith Abbott -- Edith Terry Bremer -- Ida Maud Cannon -- Joanna Carver Colcord -- Grace Longwell Coyle -- Mary Williams Dewson -- Eleanor Touroff Glueck -- Gordon Hamilton -- Jane Margueretta Hoey -- Mary Cromwell Jarrett -- Emma Octavia Lundberg -- Lydia Rapoport -- Jane Parker Deeter Rippin -- Jessie Taft -- Charlotte Helen Towle -- Miriam Van Waters -- Sociology: Eleanor Touroff Glueck -- Margaret Loyd Jarman Hagood -- Rose Hum Lee -- Irene Barnes Taeuber.