1st African-American woman to win her way out of slavery through the courts.
Who was Elizabeth Freeman
100
She escaped from slavery. By the outbreak of the Civil War, she will return to the South some 19 times and rescue more than 300 slaves.
Who was Harriet Tubman
100
She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.
Who was Amelia Earhart
100
She was the first woman to command a U.S. Navy warship
Who was Captain Kathleen McGrath
100
Her quote: "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambitioned inspired, and success achieved"
Who was Helen Keller
200
She received the first U.S. patent granted to a woman. Her invention, a type of cotton thread, helps her husband build a successful textile business.
Who was Hannah Slater
200
She received her medical degree and becomes the first woman doctor of medicine in the United States.
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell
200
She became the first Asian-American woman to earn her pilot's license.
Who was Katherine Sui Fun Cheung
200
She was the first Hispanic-American woman to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Who was Sonia Sotomayor
200
Her quote: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people"
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt
300
Founded the House of Industry, which provides employment to poor women. It is the first American charitable organization operated by women for women.
Who was Anne Parrish
300
She spent her life working for equality and the abolition of slavery. She was arrested and convicted for voting in 1872, she fought for women's equality until she died in 1906.
Who was Susan B. Anthony
300
She was sworn in as the first female Supreme Court justice
Who was Sandra Day O'Connor
300
She was the first African-American woman to attain four star rank in U.S. military history
Who is Navy Admiral Michelle Howard
300
She broke the barriers of both race and gender when she became the first American Indian to enlist in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve
Who was Minnie Spotted Wolf
400
She published her essays "On the Equality of the Sexes" and "On The Domestic Education of Children". Her essays focus on women's education and how men and women should have equal value.
Who was Judith Sargent Murray
400
In 1861 she volunteered for appointment as Superintendent of Women Nurses. During the Civil War, she recruited and trained over 6,000 nurses to serve in war.
Who was Dorothea Dix
400
She was the first American woman and youngest astronaut in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger
Who was Sally Ride
400
She became the first Latina historian inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Who is Vicki L. Ruiz
400
Her Quote: "I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay"
Who was Clara Barton (Founded the American Red Cross in 1881)
500
Disguised as a man, she enlisted in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment as Robert Shurtleff at the age of 21 during the Revolutionary War.
Who was Deborah Sampson Gannett
500
She was a free African-American woman disguised as a slave, who spied for the Union Army. She became the most critical espionage agent in the Civil War.
Who was Mary Elizabeth Bowser
500
She was the first female cadet to graduate from the Citadel, a formerly all male military school
Who was Nancy Ruth Mace
500
She became the first female director ever to win an Academy Award for best director. Her film, The Hurt Locker, about members of a U.S. military bomb squad working in Iraq in 2004.
Who is Kathryn Bigelow
500
Her quote: "spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier"