Women's History

Women's History

Rosa Parks

Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Frida Kahlo

• She was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists

• She began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident.

Barbara Jordan

• A civil rights activist

• The first African American woman elected to the Texas Senate.

Julia Child

A famous chef and one of the first women to be a well-known high class chef.

Amelia Earhart

• The first female aviator (pilot) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.

• Disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during a voyage across the world

Sally Ride

In 1983, she became the first American female astronaut to go into space .

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An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Marie Curie

• Julia Child

• Barbara Jordan

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Spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily entries in her diary to pass the time.

• Rosa Parks

• Jane Goodall

• Amelia Earhart

• Ann Frank

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She was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident.

• Wilma Rudolph

• Frida Kahlo

• Rosa Parks

• Ann Frank

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Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Amelia Earhart

• Sally Ride

• Julia Child

• Rosa Parks

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Is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer.

• Ann Frank

• Frida Kahlo

• Marie Curie

• Sally Ride

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Made history as the first American woman in space.

• Sally Ride

• Jane Goodall

• Wilma Rudolph

• Susan B. Anthony

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An aviatrix whose name is still known around the world over 75 years after her mysterious death.

• Rosa Parks

• Sally Ride

• Amelia Earhart

• Wilma Rudolph

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An undeniably amazing chef, but more importantly she was an amazing person.

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Susan B. Anthony

• Ann Frank

• Julia Child

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A Nobel prize (two) winning scientist who discovered two elements on the periodic table and who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

• Marie Curie

• Anne Boleyn

• Dolley Madison

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Conductor of Underground Railroad, nurse, spy, military leader, public speaker, and great humanitarian.

• Harriet Tubman

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Elizabeth Keckly

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She refused to give up her bus seat and became “the mother of the civil rights movement”.

• Ida B. Wells

• Hattie McDaniel

• Rosa Parks

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Teacher, nurse, founder of the American Red Cross, and legendary humanitarian.

• Helen Keller

• Mary Todd Lincoln

• Clara Barton