Women's History Month 2021

She was an Austrian-born American actress, inventor, and film producer. She appeared in 30 films over a 28-year career and co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication for torpedo guidance.

disappeared July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer and author. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic.

known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England from July 1553 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation.

was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. She gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl n which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

Russian Artist who was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov.

was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends,[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, she became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement and women's rights.

a civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 memoir, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' and her numerous poetry and essay collections.

was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

A former American basketball player. She is considered to be one of the pioneers of women's basketball. The first and only woman ever officially drafted by the National Basketball Association (NBA), a men's professional basketball league.

Empress of All Russia from 1762 until 1796 – the country's longest-ruling female leader. She came to power following a coup d'état that overthrew her husband and second cousin, Peter III. Establish an educational system. A fan of Enlightenment thinkers.

When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person — nine months before Rosa Parks did the very same thing.

Human Rights Activist. A Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. October 9, 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after taking an exam, She and two other girls were shot by a Pakistani Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt in retaliation for her activism