U.S. Trailblazers
helped Lewis and Clark make it to the Pacific Ocean
Sacagawea
the first American woman in space
Sally Ride
the last pharaoh of Egypt
Cleopatra
didn’t move to the back of a segregated bus
Rosa Parks
"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”
Mother Teresa
a conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
helped discover radium and polonium
Marie Curie
beheaded by a guillotine during the French Revolution
Marie Antoinette
hid in an attic during WW2 and wrote a famous account of her life during the war
Anne Frank
“I will not be triumphed over.”
Cleopatra
first person executed as a witch during the Salem Witch Trials
Bridget Bishop
had a doctor put a smallpox scab in her kids to inoculate them
Abigail Adams
one of England’s greatest queens, ruled without a husband
Elizabeth 1
fought for women’s suffrage (voting rights) in the early 20th century
Susan B. Anthony
"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”
Marilyn Monroe
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
a novelist who won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes
Toni Morisson
a teenage girl who led France in battle against England during the 100 Years’ War
Joan of Arc
advocated for women’s rights during the Enlightenment
Mary Wollstonecraft
"I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul."
Anne Boleyn
she was the longest serving First Lady (12 years)
Eleanor Roosevelt
first woman in space
Valentina Tereshkova
wrote Frankenstein, considered the first science fiction novel
Mary Shelley
a leader of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s
Gloria Steinem
"Everything I do is for my people."
Sacagawea