Women's History Month: Notable American Women

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  1. 1. known for the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott of 1955
  2. 3. first female president of the New York Cancer Society
  3. 6. first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane
  4. 7. first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate
  5. 10. youngest woman to ever go to space
  6. 12. holds the record for the longest single spaceflight completed by a woman
  7. 15. wrote the poem "The Hill We Climb"
  8. 16. first African American woman to be selected for Secretary of State
  9. 18. first woman to ever appear on a Republican presidential ticket
  10. 21. first woman to ever be awarded a Pulitzer prize for foreign correspondence
  11. 24. she was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 to 1900
  12. 25. first woman to represent a major party in a U.S. presidential election
  13. 27. author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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  1. 2. urged her husband to "remember the ladies"
  2. 4. escaped slavery and assisted other slaves to freedom as a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad
  3. 5. first Hispanic Supreme Court justice
  4. 8. gave the speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
  5. 9. founded the Red Cross
  6. 11. Time Magazine's first ever Kid of the Year
  7. 12. an activist for the education of native children
  8. 13. brought awareness to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
  9. 14. second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court
  10. 17. engaged in early investigative journalism
  11. 19. first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
  12. 20. first woman to own and produce her own talk show
  13. 22. worked on the calculations for the Project Mercury and Apollo space flights
  14. 23. first woman to serve as Vice President of the US
  15. 25. first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the history of the American Ballet Theatre
  16. 26. NASA's first African American female engineer