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

Wilma Rudolph relentlessly pursued her dreams becoming an international track and field star.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first woman to represent a major party in a US presidential election, the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first female senator from New York.

Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms was a Republican United States Representative from Illinois who served from 1929 to 1931.

"Goddess of Mercy!" During the Rape of Nanking (1937-38), the Chinese women refugees under Minnie Vautrin’s protection gratefully addressed her this way.

Susan B. Anthony was a champion of the temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements.

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

Although raised on a slave-owning plantation, Angelina Grimké Weld became an ardent abolitionist.