Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-hec-09024)
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Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Guides in America, which later became Girl Scouts. She founded Girl Guide groups in Scotland and London. Afterwards, she moved to Georgia and founded the first American Girl Guides group in 1912. The next year she changed the name to Girl Scouts. By her death 1927, there was 140,000 girl scouts nation-wide. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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