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| Wrote "Little House on the Prairie." |
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| First Indian woman to receive a medical degree. |
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| Jewish immigrant who worked in a garment shop after escaping from Russia. |
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| Marie Lizabeth Zakrzewska |
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| Established a trainig hospital, the New England Hospital for Women and Children. |
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| President of Bryn Mawr College for 28 years. |
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| Presided over tge Jabsas State Board of Charities. Also server as president of the National Birth Control Society. |
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| African American preacher and dedicated missionary. |
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| Cap maker who became the Women's Trade Union's first full time organizer. |
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| Wrote " Women and Economics" and " The Forerunner." |
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| Famous artist who worked with oils, watercolor and pencil. |
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| African American singer. Often known as "Ma and Pa Rainey." |
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| Female party politician of the twentieth century. |
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| Sketcher who was interred in Utah during the Executive Order 9066 (Japanese Internment camp). Sketched daily life in the camps and founded "Trek" one of the magazines that started in the camps. |
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| Worked with her husband to do the ground research used in Brown v. Board of Education segregation case of 1954. |
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| Physician and public health advocate, known for her work in the advancement of sexual education. |
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| Served in the United States Congress, and pressed for passage of Title IV. |
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| Wrote the 1970s best seller "Sexual Politics: The classic Analysis of the Interplay between Men, Women, and Culture." |
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| Wrote "The Feminine Mystique." |
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| Trained as a musician and devoted much of her life to pan-Indian activism. |
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| Suzette La flesche Tibbles |
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| Teacher and prominent activist for Indian rights. |
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| Head of National League of Women Workers. |
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| Served ably as the first president of the National Association of Colored Women. |
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| Best known for her leadership in the anti-lynching campaign. |
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| Anarchist and free lover. |
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| A Jewish immigrant who worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company when a deadly fire brokeout. |
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| The architect of the "winning plan." |
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| Made it possible for black women to straighten their hair and then style it whatever way they wanted to. Designed iron combs often called "hot combs." |
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| Was often a crucial bridge between female activists and the President. |
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| The first woman to serve as a cabinet member, served as secretary of labor for all twelve years of the Roosevelt administration. |
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| A cultural icon representing American women who worked in the factories during WWII. |
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| Union organizer for migrant workers in California in the early 1960s. |
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| She became a field secretary working for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She spoke and registered people to vote. |
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| First African American woman elected to Congress and first African American woman to run for President. |
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| She and another founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Also a professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Hunter College. |
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| Activest and journalist. Founded "Ms." magazine |
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