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She is the first woman to serve on the U.S Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor
She is known as the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history.
Who is Simone Biles?
The first Jewish woman and the second female to serve on the supreme court she spent her career advocating for gender equality and women’s rights.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsberg?
An American aviator she become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
A pioneering comedienne and television star, known for her iconic role in "I Love Lucy"
Who is Lucille Ball?
She is the youngest women to ever serve in the United States congress. She was only 29 when she entered the 116th congress in 2019.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)?
This female basketball player holds the NCAA all-time scoring record for both men’s and women’s division 1 basketball.
Who is Caitlin Clark?
After escaping slavery, this woman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A pioneer in nursing and healthcare reform, she is known as the “lady with the lamp” and the “founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
A television personality, talk show host, and media mogul, known for her talk show and her philanthropic work.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Before serving as Texas’s 30th congressional district since 2023, she was the youngest black lawmaker in Texas during the 87th legislative session.
Who is Jasmine Crockett?
She became the first female UFC champion and the first Olympic medalist to win a UFC championship. She is also a former World Judo Champion.
Who is Ronda Rousey?
This movement was a decades-long fight for a women’s right to vote in the U.S. culminating in the passage for the 19th Amendment to the US constitution in 1920 which enfranchised all American women. This was led by Susan B. Anthony.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
A humanitarian and pioneer nurse who led the American Red Cross during the American Civil War who earned the title “Angel of the Battlefield”.
Who is Clara Barton?
- The "Queen of Soul" and a music icon, who was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Arethra Franklin?
This congresswoman became the first female U.S. senator in Massachusetts in 2012 and also helped establish the first Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Before law school she received a degree in speech pathology and audiology
Who is Elizabeth Warren?
Of Japanese and Haitian descent, she is the first Asian tennis player to hold the World No. 1 ranking in singles in 2019 by the Women’s Tennis Association. She has a powerful serve that can reach 125mph.
Who is Naomi Osaka?
This landmark event, held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848, is widely considered the start of the organized women’s right’s movement in the US.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention which was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
She was the first deaf and blind person to graduate college and went to publish 14 books. She was also an activist and disability rights advocate.
Who is Helen Keller?
Mother of Princes William & Harry she was a British royal, celebrity, and activist who championed charitable causes and became an international icon. She was an advocate for the homeless, children, the elderly, and HIV/AIDS awareness, opening the UK's first HIV/AIDS unit at London's Middlesex Hospital.
Who is Princess Diana of Wales?
She is the first black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
She is known as one of the best female soccer players of all time for the U.S. She played forward for the U.S. national team from 1987-2004. At age 15, she was the youngest woman to ever play with the US national team. She went on to win 2 Olympic gold medals, one silver, 2 FIFA World Cups and 4 NCAA National Championships.
Who is Mia Hamm?
A civil rights activist, poet, and author. She was a leader in the Civil Rights movement and her work helped to end segregation.
Who is Maya Angelou?
A computer scientist and pioneer in computer programming, she invented the first compiler and coined the term “debugging”.
Who is Grace Hopper?
She became the first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime time television, a significant step for women in journalism.
Who is Barbara Walters?