Ladies & the Law
She is most famous for refusing to vacate a seat on a bus in favor of a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
She was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes. She is most famously known for her discovery of radium and polonium and her contributions to finding cancer treatments.
Who is Marie Curie?
She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was also the First Woman Vice President of the National Aeronautic Association.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
She was the first woman to win an Emmy for hosting a game show and is known to be "older than sliced bread".
Who is Betty White?
Best known for her role as "Eleven" in Stranger Things, she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at age 13.
Who is Millie Bobby Brown?
She was the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice who recently passed away and a big fan of field hockey.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
She was the founder of modern day nursing. She established principles and priorities for nursing education.
Who was Florence Nightingale?
She was the first American woman to fly in space. She was also the youngest American to fly in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
She was the first female to own and produce her own talk show, which ran from 1986-2011.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
She is most famous for the diary she wrote in hiding from the Nazis. She had a cat named Moortje.
Who is Anne Frank?
She had a $25,000 reward for her assassination and she was most famous for being a First Lady to the 32nd president.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
She was an American marine biologist and conservationist who is most famous for her "Silent Spring".
Who is Rachel Carson?
At age 6, she was the first African American student to integrate a previously segregated elementary school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Her time in the White House is the reason that our school lunch requires us to grab at least one fruit or vegetable. Less known is the fact that she wakes up at 4:30 every morning to run on her treadmill.
Who is Michelle Obama?
Born in 2003, she went famous at just 15 years old as a climate change activist who founded the School Strike for Climate.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The first black woman to successfully bring a lawsuit against a white man. Also known for her abolitionist speech "Ain't I A Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
She was the world's first computer programmer. Charles Babbage was her mentor.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
She was the first openly transgender Olympic athlete, a weightlifter from New Zealand.
Who is Laurel Hubbard?
She is the most famous female in all racket-sports. Less known is the fact that she attended fashion school from 2000-2003.
Who is Serena Williams?
She was shot in 2012 for opposing restrictions on female education in Pakistan, but lived to fight. Asteroid 316201 is named after her.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
She was the first Latina female Supreme Court justice. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 8 years old.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
She has been dubbed the "mother of Wi-Fi" after inventing frequency hopping technology. She has been described as one of the greatest movie actresses of all time.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
She was the first woman to summit Mount Everest at just 5 feet tall. She would eventually ascend the highest summit on every continent.
Who is Junko Tabei?
She has been deemed the most successful female country singer of all time. She used her own nails as a musical instrument.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Daughter of Steve Irwin, she launched a TV docuseries to further her father's cause and encourage young kids to get interested in animals and wildlife conservation.
Who is Bindi Irwin?