Women's History Month

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  1. 1. First American woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track and field in 1960
  2. 3. This physicist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — she actually won it twice — and the first woman to earn a doctorate in Europe. Her investigations led to the discovery of radioactivity as well as the element radium.
  3. 4. First woman to earn an international pilot's license.
  4. 7. She was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that include Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality.
  5. 10. Teenage Native-American girl who guided Lewis and Clark through the Louisiana Purchase.
  6. 11. fought for women’s right to vote. She was also very involved in the fight against slavery and the temperance campaign to limit the use of alcohol.
  7. 15. Won the Olympic gold medal for the United States in 1988 and1992, and set the world record. She was also the first American woman to win Olympic gold in the long jump.
  8. 16. First American woman awarded a medical degree by a college. Attended Geneva College in New York
  9. 19. First woman to enroll in a technical institute (MIT), in 1870. Founded the science of home economics and promoted science for women.
  10. 20. United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North
  11. 21. She refused to give up her seat to a white person on a crowded bus; she set in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement. She has since been a strong advocate for human rights issues.
  12. 22. United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems
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  1. 2. A leader in the fight for women’s rights for seventy years, she advocated for a nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that included large-scale marches in Washington, DC, picketing at the White House, and hunger strikes in prison.
  2. 5. As the first woman appointed to the position of U.S. Supreme Court justice, she carved a place for women at all levels of the legal profession.
  3. 6. The first American woman in space was also the youngest American astronaut ever to orbit Earth.
  4. 8. She organized a birth-control movement which openly championed the use of contraceptives in the 1920's.
  5. 9. A childhood disease left her deaf, mute, and blind. She became an expert author and lecturer, educating nationally on behalf of others with similar disabilities.
  6. 12. The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, she opened the skies to other women. In 1937 while attempting to become the first person to fly around the world.
  7. 13. led the resistance to the English invasion of France in the Hundred Years War. She believed that it was her divine mission to free her country from the English. She cut her hair, dressed in a man's uniform, and led French troops to victory in the battle of Orleans in 1429.
  8. 14. Famous for her controversial novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an antislavery story based on her experiences. Also spoke against slavery.
  9. 17. 1821-1912. Nurse, humanitarian, and teacher during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross
  10. 18. With her novels about American and Asian culture, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.