They're the people we learn about in school, and then they're the ones we don't.

From the creators of WOW in the world, who WHEN WOW is a new tinkercast original podcast

for curious kids and their grownups.

Each week, host Rebecca Sheer takes you into the lives of history's unsung heroes,

heroines, and amazing humans who make us say WOW!

We're talking people like Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman in Congress,

or the first lady of physics, Dr. Chan Shang-Gun Wu, or Roberto Clemente, one of the greatest

ballplayers of his time.

You're about to hear preview of the Shirley Chisholm episode.

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In the early 1960s, if you were a woman in America, life looked WORLDS different from

the way it does today.

It's the early 1960s, and women across America have their eyes on the prize, marriage,

and children.

Sure, they can go to college, as long as they become a secretary-teacher, or nurse.

Otherwise, their husbands bring home the bacon.

OK, we've heard enough, but then you turn this thing off.

It's a 1960s television.

There's no remote.

Yeah!

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