Bates' work with the NAACP transformed the Civil Rights Movement.

Dorothy Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.

Maria Tallchief was one of America's most popular ballerinas.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first woman to represent a major party in a US presidential election, the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first female senator from New York.

Susan B. Anthony was a champion of the temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements.

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to serve in Congress.

Although raised on a slave-owning plantation, Angelina Grimké Weld became an ardent abolitionist.

Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution.

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.

A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the 19th century.

A vocal leader of the 20th century women’s suffrage movement, Alice Paul advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment.

A prominent essayist of the American republic, Judith Sargent Murray was an early advocate of women’s equality, access to education, and the right to control their earnings.

Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling English settlers survive.

Considered one of the earliest American feminists, Anne Hutchinson was a spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged male authority.

Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer.

Female labor activist “Mother Jones” was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser”.

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century.