Category 1
year amendment was passed to give women the right to vote?
1920
First woman to receive the Nobel Prize
Marie Curie
Girl Scouts of America was founded in what year?
1913
first national Women's History Day took place on what day?
February 28,1909
What was the only sport Women could compete in during the first winter Olympics?
Figure Skating 1924
First African American female lawyer
First African American Millionare
Madam CJ Walker
When did Womens' history day become a week?
1978
Refused to give up her seat in Montgomery Alabama
Rosa Parks
First woman and woman of color to serve as US Vice President
Kamala Harris
National Organization for Women was founded by?
Betty Goldstein Friedan
First Asian Woman to receive a star on hollywood walk of fame
Anna May Wong
First woman to receive Distinguished Flying Cross
Amelia Earhart
when did womens history week become a month?
1987
when could women start getting credit cards?
1974
first woman to earn a medical degree in the US
Elizabeth Blackwell
the first Women's History Day celebration was in NYC in what year?
1909
who was the first female state governor
Nellie Taylor Ross
First woman in space
Sally Ride
Ran off with three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics
Wilma Rudolph
Year all women, regardless of race, was given the right to vote (Voting Rights Act)
1965
Refused to give up her bus seat on the same bus system as Rosa Parks months before
Claudette Colvin
declared as Women's History Month by every president in what year?
1995
First African-American to hold pilots license
Bessie Coleman
Her research led to the discovery of DNA
Rosalind Franklin