Suffrage Pioneers
She co-organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States in 1849.
Elizabeth Blackwell
She refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
She discovered radioactivity and isolated radium and polonium.
Marie Curie
Which History Club Officer/Sponsor has a different last name than his mom?
Justin Hannah
This abolitionist and suffragist famously declared “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention.
Sojourner Truth
This aviator was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Amelia Earhart
This labor activist and civil rights leader co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.
Dolores Huerta (EVERYONE SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JUSTIN KONG)
This mathematician is widely credited as the world’s first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Ada Lovelace
Which History Club Officer/Sponsor's mom got attacked by a raccoon while doing laundry outside?
She was arrested in 1872 for illegally voting in a presidential election.
Susan B. Anthony
This physicist was the first person (and only woman) to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
Marie Curie
She was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990).
Margaret Thatcher
She invented the modern square-bottomed paper bag machine in the 1870s.
Margaret E. Knight
Which History Club Officer/Sponsor got a haircut from their mom on a bad hair day during their childhood which did not turn out very good?
Mr. Johnson
This British suffragette founded the Women’s Social and Political Union and used the motto “Deeds, not words.”
Emmeline Pankhurst
She was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981.
Sandra Day O’Connor
This disability rights pioneer was the first deaf-blind person to earn a college degree.
Helen Keller
This “Queen of Code” created the first compiler and helped develop COBOL.
Grace Hopper
Which History Club Officer/Sponsor's mom guessed the age of their dad to be able to go on a date with him then having a family because of it?
Logan Vineburg
The 19th Amendment, giving U.S. women the right to vote, was ratified in this year.
1920
She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968.
Shirley Chisholm
She became the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State in 1997.
Madeleine Albright
Her work on DNA structure (Photo 51) was crucial to discovering the double helix.
Rosalind Franklin
Which History Club Officer/Sponsor's mom went to college after giving birth to him?
Justin Hannah