Women of US History

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  1. 3. She was such a powerful speaker that people sometimes climbed through windows just to hear her lectures.
  2. 7. She was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election before women had the legal right to vote nationwide.
  3. 10. She carried her baby son while helping guide the Lewis and Clark expedition across the American West.
  4. 12. Her calculations were so trusted that astronaut John Glenn asked her to personally verify NASA’s computer numbers before his flight.
  5. 15. Before becoming a famous writer, she worked as a streetcar conductor, singer, dancer, and journalist.
  6. 16. She escaped slavery with her infant daughter and later successfully sued to recover her young son — one of the first Black women in America to win such a case against a white man.
  7. 18. She claimed she once rode horseback for nearly 90 miles in a single day to deliver messages on the frontier.
  8. 19. She became a doctor in Italy after building an international career as an anti-slavery speaker.
  9. 20. After gaining her freedom, she became one of the first Black female property owners in Los Angeles and helped found the city’s first Black church.
  10. 21. She worked as a cook and businesswoman in frontier mining towns after immigrating from China in the 1800s.
  11. 23. Known as the “Angel of the Rockies,” she used her laundry business profits to help formerly enslaved people move west and start new lives.
  12. 24. She kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women long before she became famous herself.
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  1. 1. She was the first Black woman to run for president from a major U.S. political party.
  2. 2. She once shot the ash off a cigarette that her husband was holding from across the room.
  3. 4. She helped write the famous “Declaration of Sentiments,” modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
  4. 5. She answered a newspaper ad asking for applicants to the U.S. space program while finishing graduate school.
  5. 6. Before her famous bus protest, she worked as a secretary investigating racial violence cases in the South.
  6. 8. During the Civil War, she became the first woman in U.S. history to lead an armed military raid.
  7. 9. She made far more money selling pies and meals to miners during the Gold Rush than many miners made digging for gold.
  8. 11. She kept her maiden name after marriage, which was so unusual that women who did the same were later nicknamed “Lucy Stoners.”
  9. 13. She was one of the first Black women to publish a short story in the United States.
  10. 14. She was one of the first women in the United States to become an ordained minister with full denominational recognition.
  11. 17. She helped run the Whitman Mission in the Oregon Territory and became part of one of the earliest Presbyterian churches in the Pacific Northwest.
  12. 22. She traveled around the world in just 72 days to beat the fictional record from Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days.