More Strong Roots!

by Felice Prager

Can you pick out the history-making women?

  1. She was the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

  2. She was the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

  3. She was the first female Supreme Court Justice.

  4. With The Tenth Muse Lately Spring Up In America, she became the first published American female author.

  5. She was the first female to command a space shuttle mission.
    C) Mae Jemison

  6. She was the first female Postmaster in the United States. She was also the first printer to offer copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers' names.

  7. She was the first woman to receive a patent in the United States for her invention of a method of weaving straw with silk.

  8. She was the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree. She received her M.D. from the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York.

  9. She was the first woman to be the U.S. Surgeon General.

  10. A schoolteacher, she was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

  11. Together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded the National Women's Suffrage Association, an organization dedicated to gaining the right to vote for women. She died 14 years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment which gave women the right to vote. From 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999, a $1 coin was produced in her honor.

  12. She was the first woman to run for Vice President on a major party (Democrat) ticket.

  13. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Her trip from Newfoundland to Ireland took approximately 15 hours.

  14. She was the first female Attorney General of the United States.

  15. This influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration, gave up a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in order to record the forced evacuation of Japanese-Americans to relocation camps.

  16. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in America (Radcliffe College). She later became an author and political activist who campaigned for women’s rights and opposed wars.

           















































































































































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