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Annie Smith Peck
Annie Smith Peck was an adventurer, teacher, author, and mountain climber who achieved new heights for women, not just by scaling summits but through…
Artemisia Gentileschi
Painting title: Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Audra Francis
First female member of the Saginaw City Council and first female chair of the Saginaw County Commission
Benazir Bhutto
First woman of an Islamic country to serve as Prime Minister
Betty Friedan
Co-creator of the National Organization for Women in the US and author of noted works highlighting women's subordinate status in the US
Billie Jean King
Star tennis player who helped integrate athletics and increase women's pay
Cindy Sherman
Photographer whose work questions gender norms and cultural assumptions
Claudette Colvin
At the age of 15, she tried to integrate the bus system and break down segregation
Cora Mae Brown
Michigan's first female African-American state senator
Cora Reynolds Anderson
First woman elected to Michigan's House of Representatives
Daisy Bates
A lead activist in the desegregation of Little Rock high school