American anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead is born in Philadelphia. Mead researched adolescent development in the United States and in Polynesia, publishing controversial writings that spurred the feminist and counterculture movements. President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded Mead the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.
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