Women's History Month

An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony

• Alice Paul

A primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.

• Jane Goodall

• Dian Fossey

• Biruté Galdikas

• Louis Leakey

Spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily entries in her diary to pass the time.

• Anne Frank

• Margot Frank

• Etty Hillesum

• Simone Weil

Who became a school teacher at fifteen to earn money for her sister Mary's college education, while Mary was attending Iowa College for the Blind?

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Louisa May Alcott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Emily Dickinson

Who is considered one of Mexico's greatest artists known for painting mostly self-portraits after a severe bus accident?

• Frida Kahlo

• Diego Rivera

• David Alfaro Siqueiros

• Rufino Tamayo

Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Harriet Tubman

Despite being told as a child she would never walk again, she relentlessly pursued her dreams becoming an international track and field star.

• Wilma Rudolph

• Jackie Joyner-Kersee

• Florence Griffith-Joyner

• Mary Decker

Is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer.

• Marie Curie

• Rosalind Franklin

• Ada Lovelace

• Jane Goodall

Made history as the first American woman in space.

• Sally Ride

• Mae Jemison

• Eileen Collins

• Peggy Whitson

The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Amelia Earhart

• Bessie Coleman

• Harriet Quimby

• Jacqueline Cochran