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She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.
Who is Amelia Earhart
She is known as the founder of ‘modern nursing’ and helped further army medical services?
Who is Florence Nightingale
She was a senator in California prior to her current role
Who is Kamala Harris
She was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame?
Who is Aretha Franklin
She won her 23rd Grand Slam at the Austrailan open, while pregnant
Who is Serena Williams
She is known for writing a diary of her family’s hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II
Who is Anne Frank
She was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States?
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell
She was the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Who is Nancy Pelosi
She is known as ‘The First Lady of Song’, winning 14 Grammys – she was the first Black woman to win one. – recording more than 200 albums across a career lasting nearly 60 years, and fighting against discrimination.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.
Who is Junko Tabei
She was the first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license
Who is Bessie Coleman
She was an informally trained nurse, in addition also known for her “Ain’t I a Woman? Speech at the Ohio Women’s Right’s Convention in 1851
Who is Sojourner Truth
She was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor
She came to be dubbed the first queen of rock ‘n’ roll, despite only recording four albums in a four-year career. Hint: she died at age 27
Who is Janis Joplin
She was the first African American woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, setting the record for the high jump.
Who is Alice Coachman
She was a founding member of the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells
She was a nurse during the American Civil War caring for wounded soldiers
Who is Clara Barton
The year Congress declared March as National Women's History Month
What is 1987
She is a Guinness World Record holder, she’s sold over 300 million records worldwide to date. She’s a legend who changed the pop-culture game forever, exploding in the early 80s
Who is Madonna
She was he first female and first openly gay coach to coach in the San Francisco 49ers in the 2019 season.
Who is Katie Sowers
She was the lead counsel for the ACLU Womens Rights Project and known as a "feminist folk hero."
Who is Ruth Bade Ginsburg
She established a center for addiction treatment
Who is Betty Ford
This is the first state to allow women to vote
What is Wyoming
She was a revolutionary jazz vocalist who became one of the first Black women to work with a white orchestra
Who is Billie Holiday
She was the first woman to beat a man at world darts
Who is Fallon Sherrock