Annie Smith Peck
Mountain climbing
Annie Smith Peck was an adventurer, teacher, author, and mountain climber who achieved new heights for women, not just by scaling summits but through her travel writing, work in the Classics, and exploration.
Writer: Amy French
Researcher: Sheila Hempsted
Image: http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/smithpeck.html
Jane Goodall
Scientist and Activist
Leading authority on chimpanzees with ground-breaking discoveries, identifying similarities between man and chimpanzee.
Jennifer Stalker Hardin
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Shirley Chisholm
Congresswoman and Presidential Nominee
First black female member of the House of Representatives and first black female
candidate to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States
Natalie Delemeester
Photo credit: Wikipedia
Daisy Bates
A lead activist in the desegregation of Little Rock high school
Hosanna Nelson
Photo Credit: Wikipedai
Jacqueline Cochran
Aviation/Military
Founder of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots
Amy French and Brooke Haut
Image: open source images
Mary Sinclair
Environmental Activism
Amy French
Vernie Merze Tate
Foreign Affairs Scholar
Vernie Merze Tate was an African American scholar of international affairs.
Amy French
Anna Margaretha Auer Picklemann List
Midwifery
First midwife in Frankenmuth, Michigan
Amy French
Image: Ancestry.com
Jean Goodnow
Higher education president
First female college president in the mid-Michigan area
Amy French
Image: Delta College
Martha Longstreet
Medicine
First recorded female doctor in Saginaw, Michigan
Amy French
Image: Michigan Women's Hall of Fame