This document highlights and celebrates the accomplishments of several influential women throughout history, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist and conductor on the underground railroad; and Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

1. Harriett Beecher Stowe
Dr. Mae Jamison
Abolitionist and Novelist
Physician and Astronaut
who wrote
First African-American
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
woman to travel in space.
Celebrating Women - Yesterday and Today
Harriet Tubman Dolores Huerta
Abolitionist, Union Spy and Activist, Labor Leader and
“conductor” of the Co-founder of the United
underground railroad that Farm Workers Union.
helped 300+ slaves escape.
Eleanor Roosevelt Sandra Day O’Connor
American Political First female to serve as an
Leader, Civil Rights Advocate Associate Justice of the
and Humanitarian. Supreme Court.
Dorothea Dix Wilma Mankiller
Activist, Nurse and creator of First female appointed as
the first generation of Chief of The Cherokee
“humane” mental Nation.
asylums in the U.S.
Mary McLeoud Bethune
Shirley Chisolm
Educator who established a
First African-American
secondary school that later
woman elected to Congress
became a 4-year accredited
and to run for president.
college.
Clara Barton Maya Lin
Teacher, nurse and Designer of the Vietnam
founder of the Memorial in Washington
American Red Cross. D.C. and the Civil Rights
Memorial in Montgomery,
AL.