Bates' work with the NAACP transformed the Civil Rights Movement.

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

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.

World renowned performer, World War II spy, and activist are few of the titles used to describe Josephine Baker.

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

Maria Tallchief was one of America's most popular ballerinas.

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.

Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist.

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.

Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution.

One of America’s foremost female athletes, Mildred "Babe” Didrikson Zaharias broke world records in multiple sports and cofounded of the LPGA.

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

Madam C.J. Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist. She rose from poverty in the South to become one of the wealthiest African American women of her time.

Harriet Tubman escaped enslavement and helped others reach freedom.