Firsts
This former District Attorney, Attorney General, and Senator became the first Black woman, the first South Asian woman, and the first woman ever elected to the Vice Presidency of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, which Mexican American woman is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century?
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This was the year women won the right to vote in the United States.
What is 1920?
She was the first woman to be nominated as a major party candidate for President of the United States?.
Who is Hilary Clinton?
With 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast in history.
Who is Simone Biles?
Escorted by Marshall's, she was the first Black child to attend an all-white school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This "hidden figure" was known as the human computer and helped calculate trajectories for the first man in space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th Amendment?
She is the first and only Black woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
She is the first woman to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This was the first US territory to grant women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
This women’s rights movement advocate helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association and organize the Seneca Falls Convention with Susan B. Anthony.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton ?
This scientist was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
She was the first African American woman elected to Congress and the first woman to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major parties.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
She was the first and only Latina and third person ever to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, & Tony).
Who is Rita Moreno?
This famous abolitionist and "conductor" was also a American Civil War cook, nurse, scout & spy, and was the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This soldier fought in the American Revolutionary War disguised as a man.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
This controversial woman founded the first birth control clinic & Planned Parenthood's predecessor, the American Birth Control League, as well as the creation of the pill.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
She is the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
Who is Sarah McBride?
She wrote “The Feminine Mystique” in 1968 and became a leading figure in the Women’s Movement.
Who is Betty Friedan ?
She was the first woman to run for US President, the first to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, and the among the first to found a newspaper.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
She was responsible for the passage of the Alaska territory’s Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945 which was the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, passed nearly 20 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who Is Elizabeth Peratrovich?
This female lawyer was a champion for equal rights and suffrage, co-founded the ACLU in 1910, and helped write the Equal Rights Amendment
Who is Crystal Eastman?
She was the longest-serving woman in the history of the United States Senate
Who is Dianne Feinstein?
This famous actress pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.
Hedy Lamarr