Trailblazing Women
She was the first woman to run for president of the United States in 1872
Who is Victoria Woodhull?
The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women this right.
What is the right to vote?
She was the first American woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
She was the first woman to serve as a U.S. senator.
Who is Rebecca Latimer Felton?
She was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award, for Gone with the Wind (1939).
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
This activist co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This famous 1848 convention in Seneca Falls is often considered the beginning of the women's rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This scientist's work with radiation led her to become the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in two fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
She became the first female Speaker of the House in 2007.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
This poet and activist read The Hill We Climb at the 2021 presidential inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
She became the first female Supreme Court Justice in 1981.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
She was the primary author of the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This African American mathematician helped send John Glenn into orbit.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This woman made history as the first female Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers alongside César Chávez.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This militant suffragist was arrested multiple times for picketing the White House.
Who is Alice Paul?
She was the first woman to win the National Medal of Science for her work in computing.
Who is Grace Hopper?
The first female Secretary of State, she served under President Bill Clinton.
Who is Madeleine Albright?
This famous pilot and adventurer mysteriously disappeared in 1937.
Who is Amelia Earhart
She was the first African American woman elected to Congress and later ran for president in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The state of Wyoming holds this distinction in women’s voting history.
What is the first U.S. state to grant women the right to vote?
This NASA engineer’s story was highlighted in the film Hidden Figures.
Who is Mary Jackson?
In 1933, she became the first woman to serve in a U.S. Cabinet position as Secretary of Labor.
Who is Frances Perkins?
This author of The Feminine Mystique helped spark second-wave feminism.
Who is Betty Friedan?