Civil Rights Sheroes
This woman refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The first Black woman to serve as Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This NASA mathematician’s calculations helped send astronauts into orbit.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This historically Black women’s college in Atlanta has educated generations of Black women leaders and scholars.
What is Spelman College?
Known for her famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” this formerly enslaved activist fought for abolition and women’s rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This activist helped lead enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad and later served as a Union spy during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This NASA engineer helped develop early space technology and was known as the “human computer.”
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
In 2009, she became the first Black First Lady of the United States.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This HBCU in Washington, D.C., is known as “The Mecca” and is where Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, was founded.
What is Howard University?
This journalist and anti-lynching activist helped found the NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
In 2022, she became the first Black woman confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This woman's cells were key to studying cancer and developing medicines and procedures to fight it.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This black woman became the first self-made female millionaire in the United States through her hair care products.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
This Spelman College graduate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author wrote the novel "The Color Purple."
Who is Alice Walker?
This educator founded the National Council of Negro Women and advised U.S. presidents.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
This Texas politician became the first Black woman elected mayor of Houston in 1974.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
This mathematician and aerospace engineer helped program the computer systems for NASA’s Apollo missions.
Who is Mary Jackson?
This tennis champion became the first Black woman to win a Grand Slam title in 1956.
Who is Althea Gibson?
This Spelman graduate and political leader became the first Black woman nominated by the Democratic Party for governor.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
This civil rights activist co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and helped organize Freedom Summer.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This California congresswoman ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 with the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed.”
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This chemist developed the “Ball Method,” the first effective treatment for leprosy.
Who is Alice Ball?
In 1993, she became the first Black female U.S. astronaut to go to space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This activist and scholar attended Brandeis University but spent decades teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz after rising to prominence as a leader of the Black Panther movement and an advocate for prison abolition.
Who is Angela Davis?