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9885722016Ann HutchinsonPut on to help her outspoken views and was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony0
9885722017Hannah AdamsThe first professional woman writer and the knighted states she published a summary history of new England in 17991
9885722018Deborah Sampson GannettDisguised herself as a man to sign up for the fourth Massachusetts regiment. She was the first woman in listed in the American army2
9885722019Emma WillardFounded the Troy female Academy. Helped lead to coeducational school systems3
9885722020SacajaweaA Native American woman who helped Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the territory bought in the Louisiana purchase4
9885722021Sarah and Angelina GrimkeThe only white southerners to be leaders and the American anti-slavery society. Angelina became the first American woman to address a legislative body5
9885722022Lucretia MottActivist and the woman suffrage movement who address the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls. She was also an abolitionist who caused her to boycott all goods produced by slave labor6
9885722023Sojourner TruthA former slave who became a leading proponent of human rights and a spokesperson for abolitionist and women's rights. Her question ain't I a woman during a speech before a women's rights convention start to line poor and black women with those of white suffragist7
9885722024Dorthea DixWoman who pushed for changes and mentally L facilities. She found her improved over 30 hospitals and influence government legislation with her research in 1861 she was appointed for superintendent of the US Army nurses8
9885722025Margaret FullerPioneered feminist work women in the 19th century. She edited Ralph Waldo Emerson's paper the dial and became America's first female correspondence9
9885722026Harriet Beecher StoweAuthor of uncle Tom's cabin. The first major American work and which a black man appeared as a central hero. When President Abraham Lincoln later met her he addressed her as the little woman who made this great war10
9885722027Harriet TubmanA conductor on the underground railroad who helped fugitive slaves escape to the north. During the Civil War she served as a union and a military spy11
9885722028Elizabeth Caddy StantonOut rage at being excluded from anti-slavery convention because of her gender inspired her to coat organize the Seneca Falls woman's right convention. She drafted famous declaration of sentiments. She cofounded the newspaper Revolution how did the national woman suffrage Association for 20 years and was the first president of the national American woman suffrage Association12
9885722029Amelia bloomerPublisher of the temperance paper the Lily she wore a liberated pants outfits13
9885722030Maria MitchellThe first American woman astronomer and the director of the observatory at Vassar College, first female member of the American Academy of arts and sciences and the American Association for the advancement of science14
9885722031Lucy stonePioneering leader and the woman suffrage movement and founder of the American woman suffrage Association. After her marriage she kept her maiden name which led to the word stoner being associated with 19th century women who kept her maiden names after marriage15
9885722032Julia Ward HoweA poet his most famous work became the anthem the battle hymn of the republic16
9885722033Susan B AnthonyLeader in the American anti-slavery society health Elizabeth Caddy Stanton found the national woman suffrage Association and the newspaper revolution. The 19th amendment is often referred to as the Anthony amendment. Her likeness is asked on an American Silver dollar17
9885722034Mary Baker EddyFounder of the Christian science, the international religious movement would advocate spiritual healing and the believe that the body is governed not by physical cause and effect but by the powers of the mind and spirit. She organize the first church of Christ scientist in Boston and a stab list to internationally known newspaper the Christian science Monitor18
9885722035Elizabeth BlackwellFirst American woman to receive a medical doctor degree she open the New York and primary for women and children and cofounded the woman's medical college19
9885722036Clara BartonAngel of the battlefield, she was instrumental in founding the American red cross20
9885722037Antoinnette Louisa brownShe was the nations first Female ordained minister, one of the first American woman to attend college, and author of books on evolution and social theory21
9885722038Emily DickinsonPoet of hundreds of inventive original poems she was the most famous woman poet and 19th century America22
9885722039Mary Harris "Mother" JonesLabor organizer who championed the social justice and devoted herself to the struggle against the poor hours pay and working conditions of railroad textile and mine workers23
9885722040Mary CASSATTIntroduced impressionism to America and his famous especially for her paintings and prints depicting mothers and children24
9885722041Carrie nationProhibitionist reformer she gained fame for welding a hatchet while destroying saloons, women's Christian temperance movement25
9885722042Mary Elizabeth leaseShe first gain recognition for a series of lectures on Ireland and the Irish are doing a popular election of Senators the setting up a poster savings banks government control of railroads federal supervision of corporations woman suffrage free silver prohibition and other forms she gained lasting fame by advising the farmers to raise last corn and more hell in 1908 she became a lecture for the New York department of education and a 1912 supported Theodore Roosevelt and the bull moose campaign26
9885722043Carrie Chapman CattEditor of the national suffrage bulletin and leader and the woman suffrage movement, help achieve voting rights for women in America as well as I was president of the national American woman suffrage Association at the time the 19th amendment was passed, she was also president of the international woman suffrage alliance and founded the national league of women voters to help teach women how to intelligently use their boat. Her 1890 marriage included a prenuptial agreement giving her for months and each year to travel for the cause of women's equality27
9885722044Martha Thompson CareyAssociated with Bryn Mawr college, she was the first female college faculty member in the country to hold the title Dean. She started the first graduate program at any women school and establish the countries first graduate scholarships. She is also founder of the association to promote scientific research by women and of the international Federation of University women28
9885722045Annie OakleyLady sure shot, this marks on and made a living demonstrating her amazing ability to head to target, star of Buffalo Bills wild West show29
9885722046Charlotte Perkins GilmanRyder and lecture on women's roles in society she's leading feminist theorist an instrument of change30
9885722047Jane AddamsFounder of the famous Chicago settlement whole house. The first American woman to win the Nobel peace prize what she turned over to the women's internationally for peace and freedom of what she was president31
9885722048Ida B WellsBlack journalist and militant civil rights leader she was a cofounder of the NAACP and the first president of the Negro fellowship league32
9885722049Sarah Breedlove walkerShe became the first female black millionaire by successfully selling hair preparations for black women. She also found at several factors and beauty college is an actually supported many charitable and educational institutions33
9885722050Emma GoldmanLecture and author founded mother Earth news paper and was noted for her radicalism and eating the world's oppressed34
9885722051Mary McLeod BethuneA champion of humanitarian causes and an advocate of civil rights and education for blacks. Establish Florida's Bethune-Cookman College And serving as director for the division of Negro affairs in the national youth administration during Franklin D Roosevelt's presidency at the highest position ever held and government by a black woman35
9885722052Isadora DuncanPioneer of modern dance in America and Europe, she elevated dance to an art form practice by serious artist and game huge popularity for innovative expressive style36
9885722053Margaret SagnerPioneering crusader for the legalization of birth control, battle the nation's government and courts to open Americas first birth control clinic. Founder of the national birth-control leak and Planned Parenthood of America. She took her plan worldwide and founded the international plan parenthood Federation37
9885722054Helen KellerBlind and deaf, she went on to graduate with honors from Radcliffe to college and became a world famous lecture author an advocate of rights for people with disabilities38
9885722055Frances PerkinsShe became the first woman appointed to the New York state industrial commission and the first woman member of any United States cabinet heading the department of labor39
9885722056Jeanette RankinThe first female elected to the House of Representatives she campaign on a platform of peace and voted against the United States entry into World War I40
9885722057Eleanor RooseveltThis first lady champion causes of social justice worldwide and as United Nations delicate chair of the United Nations commission on human rights41
9885722058Alice PaulOrganize the 1913's women rights march through Washington DC and cofounded the congressional union for women suffrage a military branch of the national American woman suffrage Association42
9885722059Georgia OkeefeKnown as the greatest American woman artist of the 20th century her paining I noted for their lyrical use of abstract color and shape into picking flowers nature and the American landscape43
9885722060Marian AndersonFirst black to become a member of the Metropolitan opera company. And 1939 she made history when our schedule concert at Washington DC is Constitution Hall was blocked by the halls owners the daughters of the American Revolution. Eleanor Roosevelt then public resign from that organization and a public concert at the Lincoln Memorial was a range instead it's attendance by mixed crowd of 75,000 people including numerous dignitary and became a national symbol of social justice and hope44
9885722061Martha GrahamFounder and longtime principal dancer of the Martha Graham dance company and school of contemporary dance. The most influential 20th century choreographer revolutionize the mediums or use of American themes and original scores. She Austin Inc. Asian dancers Greek myth and Zen philosophy45
9885722062Amelia EarhartFemale aviator and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She sent many trans continental records before disappearing in the South Pacific watt something to fly around the world46
9885722063Zora Neale HurstonNovelist SAS play right associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement she also gained fame as an anthropologist a black culture and was the first black to compile a book of African American folklore47
9885722064Margaret MeadInternationally known social scientist environmentalist and spokes person for social and intellectual issues introduce the world anthropology if there are 1928 bestseller coming of age and Samoa based on her studies of cultures and the South Pacific. Her accomplishments include serving as president of the American Academy for the advancement of science and curator of ethanol a G at the American museum of natural history and authoring countless books and articles on society and culture48
9885722065Margaret Bourke-WhitePioneering photojournalist she gained fame for photographs of millworkers and sharecroppers and was famous for her association with life magazine49
9885722066Rachel CarsonBiology is an author of numerous books about the sea are pioneering book silent spring alerted the country to the environment to dangers of pesticides and had an immediate impact on governmental regulations and is widely considered to have started the modern environmental protection movement50
9885722067Rosa parksRefuse to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man a 1955 in Montgomery Alabama because she was just plain tired. This hard-working seamstress set off a 13 month bus boycott in a long chain of civil rights protest. National attention for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a Supreme Court ruling out loud segregation on buses and the title mother of the civil rights movement for parks who went on to continue her fight against racial injustice51
9885722068Mildred "Babe" DidriksonS-6 time when you are the Associated Press women athlete of the year award competed in baseball basketball golf and Billards on a national level and was a medal winning track star swimmer and skater thrice winning the US women's golf open founding the ladies professional golf Association and winning three gold medals in track event at the 1932 Olympics52
9885722069Betty FriedanFounder of the national organization of women are 1963 best-selling book the feminine mystique change women's lives worldwide and is credited with inspiring the start of the modern women's liberation movement53
9885722070Shirley ChisholmThe first black woman elected to Congress she But hard for the countries disadvantage champing search causes as child welfare job training Healthcare and education54
9885722071Maya AngelouPulitzer Prize winning author poet and playwright. She became the first black to compose a poem for presidential inauguration what she delivered as on the pulse of morning of Bill Clinton swing in55
9885722072Jacqueline KennedyShe restore the White House an elevated Americas image here and abroad during her years as the first lady to President John F Kennedy. After his assassination her own courage help support the country and it's great. And her later life she would it be admired as a mother Historic preservationist and book editor56
9885722073Sandra Day O'ConnorArizona lawmaker turn judge and the first woman to hold office of majority leader and state Senate, made history in 1981 through Ronald Reagan's appointment ethics social and religious groups subsequent Senate confirmation as associate justice of the US Supreme Court and the first woman to sit on this body and it's 191 year history57
9885722074Dolores HuertaThe center is most powerful and resected labor movement leaders. She left teaching and cofounded the United farmworkers with Cesar Chavez a 1962. She led the fight to permit thousands of immigrant children to receive services. She also let the struggle to achieve unemployment insurance collective-bargaining rights and immigration rights for farmworkers under the 1985 Rodin amnesty legalization program. She continues as an outstanding labor and political activist58
9885722075Toni MorrisonAuthor of the song of Solomon, beloved, and tar baby among others. The second American woman to receive the Nobel peace prize for literature gained fame for her powerful writing on black American issues59
9885722076Geraldine FerraroA member of the US Congress she introduce the private pension reform act, was a member of the select committee on aging and chair the house Democratic caucus task force and women's economic issues. She became the nations first female vice presidential running mate third Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale60
9885722077Gloria SteinemDowning editor of miss magazine and cofounder of the woman's action alliance61
9885722078Barbara JordanThe first African-American woman to ever serve in the Texas legislation. She went on to become the first black woman from the south ever elected to the US Congress where she said on the house judiciary committee and bought for voting rights school funding and the creation of a consumer protection agency. She was the first woman to get the keynote address at the Democratic national convention62
9885722079Billie Jean KingChampion of women's tennis and founder of the women's tennis Association, the women sports foundation and women sports magazine. She became the first woman athlete to earn over $100,000 in a single year. She is a worldwide fame and respect for both her athletic ability and her record-breaking earnings as well as her efforts to promote equality between a male and female sports63
9885722080Antonia NovelloA physician and public health professional, she was the first woman and first Hispanic to be a point in US Surgeon General. During this time she led the campaign for stronger warnings on cigarette labels, work to increase public awareness of aids and fought against alcohol advertisements aimed at children64
9885722081Wilma MankillerAdvocate for American Indian causes she champion programs for job training housing property rights education and community development and was elected the first woman chief of the Cherokee nation65
9885722082Candy LightnerFounded the national nationwide organization's mothers against drunk driving and students against drunk driving her campaign has affected topper drunk driving laws, help and sure the passage of the national minimum drinking age act and lead to the establishment of the national commission on drunk driving66
9885722083Sally rideShe became a mission specialist for NASA space program. And 1983. Abroad space shuttle Challenger this astrophysicist became the first American woman to fly in space67

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