Women's History Month

2. She rescued around 70 enslaved people on the Underground Railroad; nicknamed "Moses" for her brave efforts.
5. Crucial to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. Her work has only been recently recognized after being wrongfully accredited to Watson and Crick.
8. Won two Nobel Prizes for her research on radioactivity and discovery of two elements, Polonium and Radium.
9. A Mexican artist and feminist icon remembered for her self-portraits and unibrow.
11. A Pakistani activist for female education and youngest nobel prize laureate.
13. First Indian woman to go to space. Flew in 1997 and in 2001 on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
14. First Jewish woman and second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, fought for gender equality and women’s rights.
16. First Asian American, African American and female to be vice president of the United States.
19. An American tennis player with 23 grand slam titles and 4 Olympic gold medals, changed women’s tennis to a game of strength and power.

1. First woman of color to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, and first asian-american to run for president
3. Mathematician who worked for NASA in the 1950s and ‘60s; inspired the movie "Hidden Figures."
4. First and only queen of the Hawaiian kingdom, ruled for two years between 1891 and 1893.
6. An 18-year-old climate activist and winner of Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year.
7. Women's rights activist and co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
10. Her diary, written in hiding, helped historians better understand the Holocaust.
12. A civil rights activist and journalist who started an anti-lynching campaign during the 1890s.
15. A Native American woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition across North America.
17. The first woman to complete a transatlantic flight.
18. A popular Hispanic singer known as the “Queen of Tejano” and “Queen of Latin music”.