Gerda Lerner, the “godmother of women’s history,” fled Nazi-occupied Austria and became an accomplished historian and advocate for female scholars. She established the first graduate programs in women’s history and fought to include and empower women in the study of history.
The first Australian woman elected to a national parliament (UK Parliament)
Born to sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, Blackwell rose from humble beginnings to become one of many unsung Black female heroines of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
She joined with other Richmond Unionists to create an underground network to hinder the Confederate war effort and give aid and comfort to captured Union soldiers during the United States’ Civil War.
Alice Piper, a 15-year-old Paiute student, made history in 1924 by successfully suing the Big Pine School District to integrate their classrooms and allow Indigenous students to attend their newly built school.
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Educator and activist Maria Louise Baldwin belonged to a generation of Bostonian Black women highly connected to circles of educated Black and White activists.
American suffragist
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate abolitionists of the 19th century.
Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)