How did Women's History Month get started?

• Some community members in Santa Rosa, California stated a Women's History Week.

• It has been in the US since the first day of America

• Women's History Month does not exist

While only 6 years old, Ruby Bridges was the first

• girl to never attend a school

• person to miss a lot of days from school.

• African American to integrate a school in the South.

At only 17 years old, for her efforts to fight for girls' right to an education in Afghanistan, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

• True

• False

True or False: When Claudette Colvin was 15 years old, she refused to give up her seat on a bus 9 months before Rosa Parks did

• True

• False

When she was only 12 years old, Sylvia Mendez

• Changed her name

• Became one of the first Hispanics to attend an all-white school in California

• Never went to school

Young women have played an IMPORTANT role in shaping our society

• I think so

• Maybe

• YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!