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- Maya Angelou. From her powerful poetry to her moving autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou forever changed the literary world and opened doors for Black authors everywhere.
- Lucille Ball. While she was an undeniable light onscreen in I Love Lucy, Ball was an extremely powerful figure off camera as well. She was the first woman to own a major studio, called Desilu Productions.
- Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II served as head of the royal family for 70 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in British history. She celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in June 2022, just three months before she passed away at 96 years old.
- Rosa Parks. Parks famously became a leader in the 1950s Civil Rights Movement when she refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger. Her bravery sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was a major factor in the end of legal segregation.
- Jane Austen (1775 –1817) You can thank Jane Austen for basically creating those rom-com books you love to read. In her teenage years during the early 1810s, she started writing her most famous novels, like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) Ada Lovelace's genius was years before her time. As an English mathematician, she is credited with being the world's first computer programmer.
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Florence Nightingale, a.k.a. Lady with the Lamp, was a British nurse who is credited as the founder of modern-day nursing.
- Nellie Bly (1864-1922) Nellie Bly basically set the standard for investigative journalism. At a time when women writers were confined to the society pages, Bly tackled more serious topics like mental health, poverty, and corruption in politics.
- Sybil Ludington: The Female Paul Revere
- Claudette Colvin: Teenaged Civil Rights Activist
- Jane Addams: Pioneer For Social Change
- Hedy Lamarr: Invented Tech Behind Wi-Fi
- Rosalind Franklin: Revealed DNA's Structure
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias: First Female Sports Star
- Sojourner Truth: A Voice That Changed A Nation
- Jeannette Rankin: Broke Barriers Before Women Could Vote
- Chien-Shiung Wu: Disproved A 30-Year Old Law of Nature
On the night of April 26, 1777, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode nearly 40 miles to warn some 400 militiamen that the British troops were coming. Much like the ride of Paul Revere, Ludington's message helped Patriot leaders prepare for battle. But Ludington was less than half Revere's age and rode more than twice as far to carry her warning. The da...
Too tired to give up her seat on the bus home from high school, on March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin refused to move for a white passenger—nine months before Rosa Parks would do the same. Later she said that she felt inspired by the memories of earlier pioneers to stand—or sit—her ground. As she told Newsweek, “I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing...
Suffragist, settlement house founder, peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams rejected marriage and motherhood in favor of a lifetime commitment to social reform. Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, traveled to England in 1881, where they were inspired by the famed Toynbee Hall in London—a special facility to help the poor. I...
Often called “The Most Beautiful Woman in Film,” Hedy Lamarr was more than what met the eye. While Lamarr’s screen presence made her one of the most popular actresses of her day, she was also an inventor with a sharp mind. Along with avant-garde composer George Anthiel, Lamarr developeda new method of “frequency hopping,” a technique for disguising...
Rosalind Franklin knew she wanted to be a scientist at the age of 15. Enrolling in college, despite her father’s protests, she eventually received her doctorate in chemistry. She spent three years studying X-ray techniques, returning to England to lead a research team to study the structure of DNA–all at a time when women weren’t even allowed to ea...
Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, known as “Babe,” played her way into national fame in 1932, when she entered the U.S. women’s track and field championship as the sole member of her team. Despite competing in team events alone, she won five events and the overall championship. Her next stop: The 1932 Los Angeles Olympicswhere she took home three medals—...
Born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, Sojourner Truth escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826. Six feet tall, with a powerful voice and driven by deep religious conviction, Truth was an ardent abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Among many of Truth’s legacies, the tone and substance of her language loom large. She stumped the...
The first woman elected to Congress in 1916, Jeannette Rankin didn’t always know she wanted to be in politics. Her political interest began when she returned to school in 1910 at the University of Washington in Seattle and joined the state suffrage organization. Over the next four years, she spoke and lobbied for women’s suffrage. Ultimately servin...
Born in Liu Ho, China in 1912, Chien-Shiung Wu was recruited to Columbia University as part of the Manhattan Project. Working as a senior scientist on the atom bomb in 1943, she conducted research on radiation detection and uranium enrichment. In the mid-1950s, Wu was approached by two theoretical physicists, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang. They ...
- Influential actresses and entertainers. Katharine Hepburn 1907-2003. Known for Lion In Winter, On Golden Pond and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962.
- Famous female authors. Jane Austen, 1775-1817. Author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility and more. Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888. Author of Little Women.
- Influential women pioneers in medicine, science and math. Ann Preston, 1813-1872. American physician who worked to educate women about their bodies. Mary Edwards Walker, 1832-1919.
- Famous female politicians. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 1989-. Activist, U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district, and the youngest woman to serve in the United States Congress.
Aug 11, 2019 · Emmeline Pankhurst: key British woman suffrage radical; Founder, Women's Social and Political Union, 1903. Simone de Beauvoir: 20th-century feminist theorist. Americans. Judith Sargent Murray: American writer who wrote early feminist essay. Margaret Fuller: Transcendentalist writer.
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We left intact the 11 covers for women who had been named Person of the Year. The 100 choices in this project are the result of a months-long process that began with more than 600 nominations ...
Jun 8, 2023 · 4. Susan B. Anthony. The year 2019 year marked the 100th anniversary of (many) women gaining the right to vote in the United States—and 2020 marked the 200th birthday of one of the women who ...
