Pioneer environmentalist- wrote the book that helped create the environmentalist movement in the late 20th century.

a dancer and choreographer best known as a leader of the modern dance expressionist movement, expressing emotion through dance

the first woman in the world to graduate from medical school. Blackwell was also a pioneer in the education of women in medicine

an anthropologist whose groundbreaking work, especially in Samoa in the 1920s with animals in the wild

A pioneer in social work-founded Hull-House in the 19th century and led it well into the 20th

singer in Harlem's Cotton Club and rose to stardom in both the film and music industries

leader and strategist of the 19th century's women's rights movement, though her friend and lifelong partner in activism, Susan B. Anthony, was more of a public face to the movement.

one of the few women to succeed as a muckraker. She exposed the predatory pricing practices of John D. Rockefeller

guided the Lewis and Clark expedition, not completely of her own volition. In 1999 her image was selected for the U.S. dollar coin

the wife of the second U.S. president and mother of the sixth. Her intellect and lively wit come alive in her many letters, which were preserved

first American woman astronaut in space, a NASA planner, and a science professor.

Her novels, including "Their Eyes Were Watching God," have enjoyed a revival in popularity since the 1970s,

Impressionist painter, often focused on themes of mothers and children. Her work gained in recognition after her death.

an American painter with a unique, spare style. In her later years, she moved to New Mexico, where she painted many desert scenes.

African-American actress, dancer, singer, and civil rights activist. After World War II she was decorated by the French government for her work in the Resistance

she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and certainly stirred up a lot of anti-enslavement sentiment

best known as an abolitionist but she was also a preacher and spoke for women's rights.

wrote the novel "Frankenstein"

observed and documented the life of chimps in the wild from 1970 into the 1990s, tirelessly working for the better treatment of chimpanzees.

one of the 20th century's best-known fashion designers. Her look helped define the 1920s and the 1950s.

the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature and is known for writing about the experience of women.

shed light on the experience of women in colonial and revolutionary America.

author of "Little Women," and less well known for her service as a Civil War nurse and for her friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Joined her husband in battle and carried water pitchers to the soldiers during the Revolutionary War

novelist and author of "The Color Purple," as well as an activist,

pioneering nurse who served as an administrator in the Civil War and who helped identify missing soldiers at the end of the war, is credited as the founder of the American Red Cross.

the best-known of the "first wave" supporters of women's rights. Her long support of women's suffrage helped the movement succeed, though she did not live to see it achieved.

practically invented the profession of nursing. She also brought sanitary conditions to soldiers in wars, at a time when more soldiers typically died of disease than of injuries in battle.

Her role in the early English settlement of Virginia was key to survival of the colonists. Did she save John Smith? Maybe, maybe not.

a pioneer aviator (aviatrix), set many records before her 1937 disappearance during an attempt to fly around the world. As a daring woman, she became an icon when the organized women's movement had virtually disappeared.

Marie Curie was the first well-known woman scientist in the modern world and is known as the "mother of modern physics" for her research in radioactivity. She won two Nobel Prizes: for physics (1903) and chemistry (1911).

Though she was deaf and blind after a childhood illness, with the support of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, she learned signing and Braille, graduated from Radcliffe, and helped change the world's perception of the disabled.

best known for her refusal to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and her subsequent arrest, which kicked off a bus boycott and accelerated the civil rights movement.

wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African-American autobiographer and poet

conductor of the Underground Railroad during the era of enslavement in America, was also a Civil War nurse and spy, and an advocate for civil rights and women's rights.

a Mexican painter whose style reflected Mexican folk culture and her own pain and suffering, both physical and emotional.