AAPI Who Made History

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  1. 2. Five-time Olympic swimming medalist who helped popularize surfing.
  2. 4. Horticulturalist known as the “Citrus King” who revolutionized American agriculture.
  3. 8. Famous leader of the NYC Suffragette movement.
  4. 9. Japanese American Historian and Civil Rights Activist who lived in a WW2 Japanese Internment camp; credited with coining "Asian-American"
  5. 10. An activist for immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights that helped found the Trans March, one of the world’s the biggest annual transgender events.
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  1. 1. Famous for her many “firsts:” she was the first Hawaiian woman elected to the U.S. Senate, first Asian American woman in the Senate, first Japanese-born senator and first Buddhist to serve in Congress.
  2. 3. The first Asian American in space.
  3. 5. Famous worker’s rights activist who immigrated from the Phillipines and worked alongside Cesar Chavez.
  4. 6. The first woman to study aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College, and the first Indian woman to go to space.
  5. 7. The first woman to serve as president of the American Physical Society.