Women's History Month

2. helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
5. B. Anthony, was a pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which she founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8. was one of only two women to have been both wife and mother to two U.S. presidents (the other being Barbara Bush)
9. designates a yearly theme for Women's History Month.
10. a global celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women, took place for the first time on March 8, 1911.
12. centers the voices of those experiencing overlapping, concurrent forms of oppression in order to understand the depths of the inequalities and the relationships among them in any given context.

1. The absolute right to vote in political elections
3. was the first women’s rights convention in the United States.
4. was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist and author who was born into slavery before escaping to freedom in 1826.
6. The theme for Women's History Month 2022
7. the founder of Henry Street Settlement
11. a belief in the political, economic and cultural equality of women, has roots in the earliest eras of human civilization.