Maggie Lena Walker was one of the foremost female business leaders in the US and the first woman to own a bank.

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

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.

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

Phillis Wheatley Peters is broadly recognized as the first African American and the second U.S. woman to publish a book of poetry

Sojourner Truth, once an enslaved woman, became a fearless advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her work during the Civil War earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

Female labor activist “Mother Jones” was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser”.

Julia Ward Howe was a writer, lecturer, abolitionist and suffragist.

Prudence Crandall bravely defied prevailing patterns of racial discrimination when she opened one of the first schools for African American girls in Connecticut in 1833.