Eleanor Roosevelt grew up to become one of the most important and beloved First Ladies, authors, reformers, and female leaders of the 20th century.

Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements.

Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements .

Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South.

Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to hold several positions, including Secretary of State.

Dorothy Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist.

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to serve in Congress.

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.

Maria Mitchell was the first female astronomer in the United States and the first American scientist to discover a comet.

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century.

Carrie Chapman Catt was a suffragist and peace activist who helped secure for American women the right to vote

Ruby Bridges was only six years old when she became the first African American to attend her elementary school.

Amelia Earhart was a record-breaking female aviator whose international fame paved the way for other female pilots.