Women in Music
This American jazz singer was known as the "first lady of song".
Ella Fitzgerald
She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart
This woman made TV history when she became the first woman to host a comedy-variety series, which ran for 11 years and won 25 Emmy Awards.
Carol Burnett
The work of women's rights activist, Laura X, led to March being designated what month every year?
Women's history month
What artist sang these lyrics?
"I'm crazy for trying
And crazy for crying
And I'm crazy for loving you"
Patsy Cline
Gertrude Ederle
This show, running from 1958-1966, was the first family sitcom to focus on the mother, not the father.
The Donna Reed Show
Rosa Parks
With twelve number 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 like "Reflections", this girl group was the most commercially successful American vocal group.
The Supremes
In 1987 this singer, known as the "Queen of soul", was the first female Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Aretha Franklin
This woman earned the title of the "Longest TV career for a female entertainer", beginning her career on a radio show in the 1940s.
Betty White
This American lawyer and jurist, nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, became the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Judy Garland was the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammy Awards for this album.
"Judy at Carnegie Hall"
This woman was the first to win a Nobel Prize, as well as the first person and only woman to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Marie Curie
She was the first woman to own and produce her own talk show, that remains the highest rated talk show in American television history.
Oprah Winfrey
This writer, teacher, and journalist wrote a series of books about the life of her pioneer family called "Little House on the Prairie", which was later turned into a TV show.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
This 1960s icon was rumored to have a vocal breakthrough, a three note increase in her vocal range, after being hit in the head.
Cass Elliot
This American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut was the first African-American woman to travel to space in 1992.
Mae Jemison
She was the first woman to become a full-time new correspondent in 1948, and made history again when she became the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in 1976.
Pauline Frederick
This pioneering nurse and humanitarian established The Red Cross in 1881, after being inspired by the International Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.
Clara Barton