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- 3. She was such a powerful speaker that people sometimes climbed through windows just to hear her lectures.
- 7. She was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election before women had the legal right to vote nationwide.
- 10. She carried her baby son while helping guide the Lewis and Clark expedition across the American West.
- 12. Her calculations were so trusted that astronaut John Glenn asked her to personally verify NASA’s computer numbers before his flight.
- 15. Before becoming a famous writer, she worked as a streetcar conductor, singer, dancer, and journalist.
- 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.
- 18. She claimed she once rode horseback for nearly 90 miles in a single day to deliver messages on the frontier.
- 19. She became a doctor in Italy after building an international career as an anti-slavery speaker.
- 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.
- 21. She worked as a cook and businesswoman in frontier mining towns after immigrating from China in the 1800s.
- 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.
- 24. She kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women long before she became famous herself.
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- 1. She was the first Black woman to run for president from a major U.S. political party.
- 2. She once shot the ash off a cigarette that her husband was holding from across the room.
- 4. She helped write the famous “Declaration of Sentiments,” modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
- 5. She answered a newspaper ad asking for applicants to the U.S. space program while finishing graduate school.
- 6. Before her famous bus protest, she worked as a secretary investigating racial violence cases in the South.
- 8. During the Civil War, she became the first woman in U.S. history to lead an armed military raid.
- 9. She made far more money selling pies and meals to miners during the Gold Rush than many miners made digging for gold.
- 11. She kept her maiden name after marriage, which was so unusual that women who did the same were later nicknamed “Lucy Stoners.”
- 13. She was one of the first Black women to publish a short story in the United States.
- 14. She was one of the first women in the United States to become an ordained minister with full denominational recognition.
- 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.
- 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.