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Watch the stories of our trailblazing heroines below. New animated documentary films will be posted every Wednesday between March 4 and August 26, 2020. So please keep coming back to see the latest releases!

Gertrude Ederle

First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel

1905-2003

Queen Lili‘uokalani

Hawaiʻi’s First Sovereign Queen & Last Monarch

1838-1917

Sissieretta Jones

First African American Woman To Headline At Carnegie Hall

1868-1933

Susan La Flesche Picotte

First American Indian Doctor

1865-1915

Annie Smith Peck

Record-Breaking Mountaineer & Suffragist

1850-1935

Gladys Bentley

Gender-bending Performer & Musician

1907-1960

Margaret Chung

First American-Born Chinese Female Doctor

1889-1959

Rose Schneiderman

Pioneering Labor Organizer & Suffragist

1882-1972

Tye Leung Schulze

Advocate for Trafficked Women

1887-1972

Williamina Fleming

Trailblazing Astronomer and Discoverer of Stars

1857-1911

Lois Weber

The First Woman to Direct a Feature Length Film

1879-1939

Louise Arner Boyd

First Woman to Lead Arctic Expeditions

1887-1972

Meta Warrick Fuller

TRAILBLAZING SCULPTOR

1877-1968

Anna May Wong

Trendsetting Movie Star and Fashion Icon

1905-1961

Ynés Mexía

Accomplished Latina Botanist

1870-1938

Lillian Gilbreth

Pioneering Inventor & Engineer

1878-1972

Maggie Lena Walker

First African American Woman Bank President

1864-1934

Grace Abbott

Champion of Children, Immigrant, and Women's Rights

1878-1939

Bessie Coleman

First African American Woman Aviator

1892-1926

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