Biographies

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

Shirley Temple was a child actor with curly hair and later worked as an ambassador for the US government.

Mary Church Terrell was a well-known African American activist who championed racial equality and women’s suffrage.

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

Harriet Tubman escaped enslavement and helped others reach freedom.

"Goddess of Mercy!" During the Rape of Nanking (1937-38), the Chinese women refugees under Minnie Vautrin’s protection gratefully addressed her this way.

Maggie Lena Walker was one of the foremost female business leaders in the US and the first woman to own a bank.

Madam C.J. Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist. She rose from poverty in the South to become one of the wealthiest African American women of her time.

Beloved Woman of the Southeastern Cherokee, Nanyehi (Nancy) Ward was a respected warrior and leader who acted as a go-between with white settlers.

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

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

Despite spending much of her life enslaved, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.

One of America’s foremost female athletes, Mildred "Babe” Didrikson Zaharias broke world records in multiple sports and cofounded of the LPGA.