Female Firsts

Who was the FIRST Female Supreme Court justice?

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Elena Kagan

• Sonia Sotomayor

A civil rights activist and the first African American woman elected to the Texas Senate.

• Jane Goodall

• Barbara Jordan

• Frida Kahlo de Rivera

• Wilma Rudolph

The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Rosa Parks

• Sally Ride

• Amelia Earhart

• Wilma Rudolph

Made history as the first American woman in space.

• Sally Ride

• Jane Goodall

• Wilma Rudolph

• Susan B. Anthony

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

Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Amelia Earhart

• Sally Ride

• Julia Child

• Rosa Parks

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

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

At fifteen, she became a school teacher. She did this to earn money for her sister Mary's college education. At the time, Mary became blind due to Scarlet Fever and was attending Iowa College for the Blind.

• Ann Frank

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Amelia Earhart

• Frida Kahlo

Despite being told as a child she would never walk again, she relentlessly pursued her dreams becoming an international track and field star.

• Jane Goodall

• Susan B. Anthony

• Ann Frank

• Wilma Rudolph