-I am a philosopher and activist.

-I was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party.

-I ran for vice president in 1980 and 1984.

-I was a political prisoner.

• Ella Baker

• Shirley Chisholm

• Assata Shakur

• Angela Y. Davis

Who Am I?

• Ella Baker

• Ida B. Wells

• Angela Y. Davis

• Rosa Parks

Who Am I?

• Ruth Bader Ginsberg

• Nancy Pelosi

• Hillary Clinton

• Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first U.S. woman to:

• earn a medical degree in the US
• own a business
• become an ordained minister
• win a gold medal in the Olympics

In 1960, at the age of six, she was the first African-American female student to integrate an elementary school in the U.S. South.

• Etta James
• Marian Wright 
• Misty Copeland
• Ruby Bridges

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, first female professor at the University of Paris, and the first person – note the use of person there, not woman – to win a second Nobel Prize. She founded the new science of radioactivity – even the word was invented by her – and her discoveries launched effective cures for cancer.

• Marie Antoinette

• Michelle Obama

• Marie Curie

• Mrs. Lowen

What year did American women gain the right to vote?

• 1945

• 1864

• 1920

• 1930

Who was the first African-American woman to learn to fly?

• Kamala Harris

• Bessie Coleman

• Mea Jemison

Draw a sign you might see at the 1913 March for Women's Suffrage

The nation's first Women's Day celebration was ____ in 1909.