Civil Rights Leaders
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
She developed the theory of radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
She was known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
She became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
She was a lawyer who argued cases before the Supreme Court and later became the first Black woman elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
She was a mathematician whose NASA calculations helped launch astronaut John Glenn into orbit.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
She starred as Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Who is Judy Garland?
She was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
She co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.
Who is Betty Friedan?
The first female Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She co-discovered the structure of DNA (though she did not receive a Nobel Prize).
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
She was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Barry?
She served as Speaker of the House starting in 2007, becoming the first woman in that role.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
She was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington and was known as the “voice of the movement.”
Who is Ella Baker?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
She invented the first compiler for a computer programming language.
Who is Grace Hopper?
She created and starred in The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
She was the first Black woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
She was a civil rights activist who helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
The first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is Madeleine Albright?
She was the first Black female physician in the United States.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
She wrote the novel Beloved.
Who is Toni Morrison?
She was the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket (Democratic Party, 2016).
Who is Hillary Clinton?