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Allie Hixson

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Allie Corbin Hixson (May 28, 1924 – October 30, 2007) was a feminist advocate working for women's rights and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. Hixson is credited with being the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisville in 1961. Her portrait was hung in the Kentucky State Capitol Rotunda as part of the Kentucky Women Remembered exhibit.