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Champion of Children, Immigrant, and Women's Rights

1878-1939

Newspaper Editor and First African American Woman Vice Presidential Candidate

1888-1969

Gender-bending Performer & Musician

1907-1960

First Woman to Lead Arctic Expeditions

1887-1972

First American-Born Chinese Female Doctor

1889-1959

Suffragist, Civil Rights Activist and Co-Founder of the NAACP

1863 - 1954

First African American Woman Aviator

1892-1926

First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel

1905-2003

Trailblazing Astronomer and Discoverer of Stars

1857-1911

Pioneering Inventor & Engineer

1878-1972

First Woman State Senator & Pioneering Public Health Advocate

1857 - 1932

Daredevil Performer & Advocate For The Blind

1904-2003

Latina Journalist and Civil Rights Leader

1885-1946

First African American Woman To Headline At Carnegie Hall

1868-1933

First American Indian Doctor

1865-1915

Advocate for Trafficked Women

1887-1972

Hawaiʻi’s First Sovereign Queen & Last Monarch

1838-1917

Record-Breaking Mountaineer & Suffragist

1850-1935

Accomplished Latina Botanist

1870-1938

First Woman Member of U.S. Congress

1880-1973

Pioneering Labor Organizer & Suffragist

1882-1972

First African American Woman Bank President

1864-1934

TRAILBLAZING SCULPTOR

1877-1968

The First Woman to Direct a Feature Length Film

1879-1939

Trendsetting Movie Star and Fashion Icon

1905-1961

Composer, Author & Civil Rights Activist

1876-1938