Women’s History Month Facts
Women’s History Month is celebrated in this month.
What is March?
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
She is considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time.
Who is Simone Biles?
She is known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
International Women’s Day is celebrated on this date.
What is March 8?
This abolitionist helped lead enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This tennis legend has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
Who is Serena Williams?
This talk show host became one of the first Black female billionaires.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
The first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
She became the first Black woman to serve as U.S. Vice President.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She became the first woman to dunk in a WNBA game.
Who is Lisa Leslie?
She headlined Coachella in 2018 and called it “Beychella.”
Who is Beyoncé?
She was the first American woman in space in 1983.
Who is Sally Ride?
This 1963 federal law required men and women to receive equal pay for equal work.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
She wrote the novel Beloved.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This soccer star has won multiple Olympic gold medals and World Cups with Team USA.
Who is Megan Rapinoe?
She starred as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
This NASA mathematician helped calculate flight paths for early U.S. space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This Supreme Court case in 1973 dealt with abortion rights in the United States.
What is Roe v. Wade?
She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
She was the first Black woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics in 2012.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
She created and starred in the HBO series Insecure
Who is Issa Rae?
This Polish-born scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?