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?
This "hidden figure" was known as the human computer and helped calculate trajectories for the first man in space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This Amendment granted women the right to vote in the US
What is the 19th amendment?
In 2016 she became the first woman to be nominated as a major party candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to win the popular vote in a U.S. presidential election.
Who is Hilary Clinton?
With 23 Grand Slam women's singles titles and the only player to accomplish a career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles, this woman is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
Who is Serena Williams?
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 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 was the year women won the right to vote in the United States.
What is 1920?
In 2022 she became the first and only Black woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
In 1973, this tennis star defeated Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes" match, proving women's athletic talent on a global stage.
Who is Billie Jean King?
In 1979 she became the first woman to be depicted on a coin.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Escorted by Marshall's, in 1960 she was the first Black child to attend an all-white school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
She is the first self-made woman billionaire in the U.S.
Who is Martha Stewart?
In 1981 she became the first female justice appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Conner?
She is the first woman to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Taken without her knowledge in 1951, the cells of this African American woman became the first and only immortal human cell line, revolutionizing medical research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, the first presidential spouse to hold regular press conferences, write a daily newspaper column, write a monthly magazine column, host a weekly radio show, and speak at a national party convention.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
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 is the first Latina and third woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
With 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast in history.
Who is Simone Biles?
This was the first US territory to grant women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
This disability and women’s rights activist was known for being the first deaf-blind person to write a book and earn a Bachelor’s Degree.
Who is Hellen Keller?
She was the first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
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 wrote “The Feminine Mystique” in 1968 and became a leading figure in the Women’s Movement.
Who is Betty Friedan ?
This 15 year old Black teen refused to give up her seat on the bus to a White person on March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks famously did so.
Who is Caudette Colvin?
This Mexican American woman is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, and one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
In 1964 she became the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator and the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world.
Who is Joan Merriam Smith?
She was the longest-serving woman in the history of the United States Senate
Who is Dianne Feinstein?
She was the first and only Latina and third person ever to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, & Tony).
Who is Rita Moreno?
On June 18, 1983 she became the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7.
Who is Sally Ride?
This scientist’s contribution led to the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This is the year that spousal rape was finally criminalized in all 50 states.
What is 1993?
She is the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
Who is Sarah McBride?
She was the first woman to receive EGOT status (winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony)
Who is Helen Hayes?
In 1756 she became the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America.
Who is Lydia Taft?
She was the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Who is Wilma Mankiller?
In 1839, this was the first state to allow married women to own (but not control) property in their own names.
What is Mississippi?
This Iraq War Veteran, Purple Heart recipient and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was the first woman with a disability elected to Congress.
Who is Tammy Duckworth?
She helped spark the modern Gay Rights Movement during NYC's Stonewall Inn Riots, co-founded the first LGBTQ+ youth shelter in North America, the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) and co-founded the Gay Liberation Front.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
In 1849, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, she became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
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?
Not until the passage of the ECOA in this year was it possible for women to obtain a mortgage on their own without facing legally permitted discrimination.
1974
She was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, to address a congressional committee, to found a weekly newspaper, and to run for President of the United States.
Who is Victoria Claflin Woodhull?
She was the first public topless dancer in the United States.
Who is Carol Ann Doda?
This female lawyer was a champion for equal rights and suffrage, helped write the Equal Rights Amendment, and co-founded the ACLU in 1910.
Who is Crystal Eastman?
This soldier fought in the American Revolutionary War disguised as a man and was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participation in the Revolutionary Army.
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?
In 1888 this town was the first in the United States known to have an all-woman government, with the mayor and entire council being female.
What is Oskaloosa, Kansas?
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