Famous Women In History

1. Her diary is one of the most honest, powerful and poignant accounts of World War II.

• Anne Frank

• Rosa Parks

• Maya Angelou

• Ada Lovelace

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2. She defined an entire literary genre with her shrewd social observations and wit. She wrote Mansfield Park, in her teens.

• Maya Angelou

• Jane Austen

• Mary Shelly

• Virginia Wolf

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3. She was an English mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer.

• Marie Curie

• Edith Cowan

• Malala Yousafzai

• Ada Lovelace

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4. She was a pioneering physicist and scientist, who coined the term radioactivity.

• Rosalind Franklin

• Rosa Parks

• Marie Curie

• Mary Anning

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5. When the bus driver asked her to stand up and give her seat to a white man, she refused and in doing so sparked an entire civil rights movement in America.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Malala Yousafzai

• Edith Cowan

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6. Her award-winning memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman.

• Alice Walker

• Maya Angelou

• Sojourner Truth

• Margaret Walker

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7. She's an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist, and well-known for her speech at the Ohio Women’s Right’s Convention in 1851.

• Margaret Walker

• Josephine Baker

• Ida B. Wells

• Sojourner Truth

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