Katharine Lee Bates, a poet and professor of English at Wellesley, is best known for writing the words to "America the Beautiful." She was born on August 12, 1859. Learn more: About Katharine Lee Bates
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Little do “Patriot Act patriots” of today know, when singing America the Beautiful, they are singing the words of a a feminist, a lesbian, a Christian socialist, and an ardent anti-imperialist.