110513 Amazing People Inspiring Women BBS

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Amazing People: Inspiring Women Bulletin Board BIOGRAPHIES

1788 - 1812

S Sacajawea

1906 - 1975 1907 - 1954 1907 - 2002 1908 - 1998 ca. 1820 - 1913 1820 - 1906 1860 - 1935 1905 - 2003 1923 - 2014 1940-1994 1815 - 1852 1867 - 1934 1821 - 1912 1864 - 1922 1897 – ca. 1937

J B F K A L M G H T S B A J A G E A C W R A L M C C B N B A E Josephine Baker Frida Kahlo Astrid Lindgren Martha Gellhorn Harriet Tubman Susan B. Anthony Jane Addams Gertrude Ederle Alice Coachman Wilma Rudolph Ada Lovelace Marie Curie Clara Barton Nellie Bly Amelia Earhart

1917 - 1996 1928 - 2014 1929 - 1993 1929 - 1875 - 1955 1880 - 1968 1884 - 1962 1971 - 1975 - 1980 - 1906 - 1992 1907 - 1964 1927 - 2002 1930 - 1933 - 2020

IX Title E F M A A H Y K M M B H K E R K Y A M V W G H R C P M S D O R B G Ella Fitzgerald Maya Angelou Audrey Hepburn Yayoi Kusama Mary McLeod Bethune Helen Keller Eleanor Roosevelt Kristi Yamaguchi Aimee Mullins Venus Williams Grace Hopper Rachel Carson Patsy Mink Sandra Day O’Connor Ruth Bader Ginsberg

1942 - 2018 1946 - 1954 - 1977 - 1913 - 2005 1915 - 2015 1945 - 2010 1981 - 1997 - 1998 - 1918 - 2020 1930 - 1939 - 2016 1947 -

A F D P O W S R P G L B W M S W S B Y M K J T Y J T K S C M Aretha Franklin Dolly Parton Oprah Winfrey Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll Rosa Parks Grace Lee Boggs Wilma Mankiller Serena Williams Simone Biles Yusra Mardini Katherine Johnson Tu Youyou Junko Tabei Kathrine Switzer Christa McAuliffe

1982 - 1987 - 1947 - 1947 - 1959 - 1934 - 1951 - 2012 1956 - 1959 - 1964 -

VP M C A S T G J H R M J G S R M J M L K H Misty Copeland Ali Stroker Temple Grandin Judith Heumann Rigoberta Menchú Jane Goodall Sally Ride Mae Jemison Maya Lin Kamala Harris

1997 - 2003 - 1964 - 1982 - Artists & Performers Activists & Advocates

Athletes

Scientists & Mathematicians M Y G T M O D P Trailblazers Malala Yousafzai Greta Thunberg Michelle Obama Danica Patrick

This set of Amazing People celebrates 60 Inspiring Women who made a difference in one of five areas. Each has changed the world in small and large ways. This list could have been much longer! We encourage you to use the list as a starting point; as you discuss the bulletin board, you may want to add others who inspire you. We chose people who were unique in their accomplishments, who demonstrated personal qualities that would resonate, and who could generate high interest in students. We want students to know that they can dream big. Someone just like them, at one time, did, and changed the world.

The short biographical sketches that follow are offered as a brief introduction to each of the inspiring women included in this set. They highlight some achievements and qualities that set these women apart. There is, of course, much more to each story. We leave the rest of the story for students to research and enjoy.

Psst! All of the information was correct at the time of printing. However, life goes on and things may change. Carson Dellosa will make every effort to make updates and corrections available in a timely manner.

Ali Stroker is an award-winning actress Ella Fitzgerald was a jazz singer and and singer. She was paralyzed in a car an international legend. “The First Lady accident at the age of two and cannot of Song” earned 13 Grammy Awards walk. She was the first actress to use a and sold more than 40 million albums. wheelchair on a Broadway stage. She is a She started a foundation to help others, popular speaker with the message, “Turn particularly children, in the areas of your limitations into your opportunities.” music, education, culture, health, and dental care. Her program, “A BOOK Aretha Franklin was a singer, songwriter, JUST FOR ME,” donated over 100,000 and civil rights activist who grew up books to at-risk kids and families. singing gospel music. She later became known as the “Queen of Soul” and Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter was the first woman named to the known best for her colorful self-portraits. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other Frieda had polio as a child, then accomplishments included receiving the was badly injured in a bus accident. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 During the years it took her to recover, and performing at the 2008 presidential she taught herself how to paint! inauguration of Barack Obama. Josephine Baker was a dancer and Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish author singer who took Black American culture of children’s books. Her best-known to Paris, where she danced in outfits series featured Pippi Longstocking, a adorned with feathers. She had no father girl living alone with her horse and ape. and grew up so poor that she left school She was known for her strong support at age eight for two years to work. She of children’s and animal rights. A prize in worked for the French Resistance in her name is given to a Swedish children’s World War II and later fought segregation writer every year on her birthday. and racism in the United States.

Audrey Hepburn was an actress Martha Gellhorn was a journalist, known for her style, her roles in novelist, and one of the first female movies, and her compassion for needy war correspondents. She was the only children. She spent decades helping woman at the D-Day landing and later poor children, nursing sick children, witnessed the liberation of Dachau, a and finding ways to provide food and German concentration camp. She was clean water for them. She received a brave and fearless writer, sometimes the Presidential Medal of Freedom for going undercover to get difficult stories. this work and a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild. Maya Angelou was a singer and dancer; then a journalist and civil-rights activist; Dolly Parton is a country music singer, then a poet, playwright, and author of guitarist, and actress. She was named a books such as “I Know Why the Caged Living Legend by the Library of Congress Bird Sings.” Her writing especially and has received many other awards explored the way the world treats women including a National Medal of the Arts. Her who are poor, black, and female. She program, Imagination Library, provides encouraged people to face their hardships, a free book to children once a month to be positive, and to never give up. from birth to school age. By 2018, over 100 million books had been donated.

Misty Copeland is the first Black female Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) to join the American Ballet Theatre. is a Columbian musician and one of Her drill team coach in middle school the most successful Latin American recommended she take ballet classes recording artists. Over 70 million of at the local Boys & Girls Club . . . and her albums have been sold worldwide. a star was born! She became a strong She uses her fame and resources to advocate of diversity in the field of improve children’s education around the ballet, pushing for increased training world, particularly children who live in and mentorship in diverse communities poverty or “who cannot afford shoes.” as well as in Boys & Girls Clubs. Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist Oprah Winfrey is a TV personality, known for her polka dots. Small and actress, and entrepreneur who hosted gigantic polka dots dominate her one of the most popular daily talk shows paintings, sculptures, and sometimes ever. She is the first Black female an entire room! She began painting as a billionaire. Oprah’s Angel Network is child and has had very little training. Her a charity that works worldwide. She childhood dreams showed whole fields opened a $40,000 million school in South of dots, so she filled her art with them. Africa for girls who might otherwise not have gotten an education.

Aimee Mullins is an athlete, actress, Simone Biles is considered an artistic and fashion model who was born with gymnast and has captured worldwide a medical condition that resulted in the attention and affection. With a amputation of both legs below the knee. combined total of 30 Olympic and World She was not expected to walk. But, she Championship medals so far, Biles may swims, bikes, skis, and has played in be the greatest gymnast ever. Her heart numerous sports with prosthetic legs. She is golden too, as shown by her efforts to competed on the 1996 Paralympic team support foster kids and others in need. in the 100m sprint and the long jump. Venus Williams learned to play tennis Alice Coachman, an athlete who excelled with her father on public courts. She in the high jump, grew up in a segregated played her first official game when she town in Georgia. She encountered many was 14 and went on to become the World setbacks because of her race. But, that No. 1 in 2002, the first Black person to didn’t stop her from becoming the first Black achieve this success in the Open Era. woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She supports numerous charities. The medal was awarded her by a king, George VI, at the London 1948 Olympics. Wilma Rudolph survived polio as a child but was told she would never walk Gertrude Ederle, “Queen of the Waves,” again. She never gave up her dreams was a competition swimmer, Olympic of becoming an international track-and- champion, and world record-holder. In field star and became the “fastest woman 1926, she became the first woman to in the world” at that time. She used her swim across the English Channel. Her success to further the rights of others. hearing was permanently damaged during that swim. She went on to become a Yusra Mardini fled in 2015 from her swimming instructor for deaf children. home in war-torn Syria to a new home in Germany. She entered the 2016 Olympics Kristi Yamaguchi is a figure skater who as a Refugee Olympic Team swimmer. was born with club feet. She started skating Since then, this inspiring international at age six in physical therapy and went athlete has become a bestselling author, on to become an Olympic gold medalist. a United Nations ambassador, and more. She is also an author, philanthropist, and founder of the Always Dream Foundation.

Serena Williams learned to play tennis with her father on public courts. She became a pro and has won many awards at the Olympics and elsewhere. By 2020, she had won over $93 million in prize money, more than any other female athlete. Sharing her wealth, she has opened several schools in Africa and around the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a political Jane Addams was a social worker, figure, UN diplomat, and humanitarian. feminist, and activist. Her peace As President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s activism led her to become the first wife, she served as First Lady longer American woman to receive the Nobel than anyone else. She worked tirelessly Peace Prize. She also founded Hull to bring about change in the areas of House, the first “settlement house,” child welfare, housing reform, and equal or community center, in the US. rights for women and racial minorities. Judith Heumann had polio as a child. Grace Lee Boggs was an Asian- After graduating from college, she was American activist who spent much of her denied the right to teach because of life advocating for civil rights and labor her wheelchair—she was considered rights. Her dedication to working with a “fire hazard.” She later became the young people led her to start the James first wheelchair user to teach in New & Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit. York City. She remained a strong She was also a writer and speaker disability rights activist and helped who won many awards for her work. develop laws and policies to benefit children and adults with disabilities. Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who, as a teenager, Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist brought international attention to the who fights for female education. Even issue of climate change. She began as a young girl, she spoke up for the a movement by skipping school to rights of girls to go to school. In 2012, highlight the alarming state of global she was shot by the Taliban for speaking warming. Four million people joined her out. She survived and continues the for a global climate strike in 2019. fight. She is the youngest recipient ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Harriet Tubman was born in the South into slavery but escaped to freedom Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter in the North. She became one of the of former slaves. Her family grew cotton most famous abolitionists, helping and by age nine, she could pick 250 hundreds of slaves to freedom along pounds of cotton a day. She was one the route of the Underground Railroad. of the most important Black educators, After the Civil War, she continued to activists, and feminists of the twentieth help former slaves and the elderly. century. Her greatest accomplishments included founding the Bethune-Cookman Helen Keller became blind as a result College and helping five presidents. of illness when she was a baby. At age seven, she met Anne Sullivan, who Rigoberta Menchú is a Guatemalan taught Helen by spelling words into her activist who works for the rights of hand. She learned to read sign language indigenous peoples. She grew up in a in her hand and with raised print for country with much violence, lost family blind readers. She wrote 12 books and members, and had to flee the country many articles on a braille typewriter. herself. In 1992, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to bring about peace in her country.

Rosa Parks became active in the Civil Temple Grandin may be the best- Rights Movement at a young age. She known person with autism in the and her husband worked with different world. She is a popular spokesperson social justice groups. In 1955, she for those with autism and has had refused to give up her seat to a white a movie made about her life. She is person and move to the back of the considered an expert on animal behavior bus. She went to jail and lost her job. and has designed humane handling But, she never quit working for justice. systems for cattle-processing plants.

Susan B. Anthony was raised in a Wilma Mankiller was a Cherokee activist, Quaker home and taught to fight for social worker, community leader, and what was right. She was one of the first the first woman to become chief of the activists to fight for women’s suffrage; Cherokee Nation. In her role as chief, she also worked against slavery and she primarily focused on education, job the use of alcohol. She is the first training, and healthcare for her people. woman to be pictured on a US coin.

Ada Lovelace is often referred to Marie Curie was a Polish and French as the first computer programmer, physicist and chemist who is famous for even though she was born in 1815 her work on radioactivity. She strongly before there were computers, due to promoted using radium to lessen her mathematical brilliance. Unlike suffering, especially during World War most females at that time, she was I. She was the first woman to win a encouraged to study mathematics. She Nobel Prize, the first person to win two is best known for her work with Charles Nobel Prizes, and the only woman to Babbage, “the father of computers.” win the award in two different fields.

Grace Hopper was a child who enjoyed Rachel Carson had a life-long love taking apart alarm clocks to see how they of nature that began in her childhood. worked. As an adult, she is remembered She became famous as a naturalist and as a computer pioneer and naval officer science writer for the articles and books who helped develop computer technology, she wrote about the wonders of the living including the first computer programming world. Her most famous book, “Silent language and also the term “bug” for Spring,” warned of the dangers to the a computer error. She was sometimes environment from chemical pesticides. referred to as “Amazing Grace.” Sally Ride had young dreams of Jane Goodall is a primatologist and becoming a professional tennis anthropologist who is best known for player. Her college studies led her over 60 years of work with families to pursue a career in physics. She of wild chimpanzees. She became took a job with NASA and became passionate about animals and Africa the first American woman in space, as a young person. Today, she travels one of five crewmembers aboard the around the world speaking out about space shuttle, Challenger STS-7. environmental issues, especially the threats to chimpanzee communities. Tu Youyou is a Chinese scientist who suffered from tuberculosis as a teenager, Katherine Johnson, one of the first three motivating her to look for a career in Black students allowed into graduate medicine. She studied ancient Chinese school in West Virginia, made a name for medical texts and used the leaves of a herself in the field of mathematics. First plant to discover one of the world’s most a teacher, she later joined NASA as a useful drugs to fight malaria. For this data analyst. She worked on America’s achievement, she won a Nobel Prize. Her first human spaceflight, Freedom 7. first name, Youyou, means “deer bleat.” Astronauts did not want to lift off until she had confirmed the computer’s numbers.

Amelia Earhart broke a lot of records in Kamala Harris is the daughter of Indian her short life. She was a female aviator at and Jamaican immigrants. She grew up a time when this was rare. She became in a Black neighborhood and was taken to the first woman to fly solo across the civil rights rallies even as a toddler. Her Atlantic Ocean as a pilot. In 1937, she professional titles include district attorney, took off in an attempt to become the first attorney general, senator, and more. She woman to fly around the world. Radio made history in 2020 when she became contact was lost with 7,000 miles to go. the first female, Black, and Asian-American She and her plane have never been found. person to serve as US Vice President.

Christa McAuliffe was a social studies Kathrine Switzer was the first woman teacher whose passion for space led to officially enter and run the Boston to her to apply for NASA’s first Teacher Marathon at a time when women were in Space program. She was chosen to not allowed in road races. Her advocacy be the first private citizen in space and for women runners changed the world of was thrilled to be offered “a seat on a sports for women. Many new opportunities rocket ship.” Sadly, the Challenger space developed, including the creation of shuttle fell apart 73 seconds after it the first women’s Olympic Marathon. began its flight and all aboard were lost. Mae Jemison is an engineer, doctor, Clara Barton was a teacher, patent clerk, and a former NASA astronaut. As a child, and self-taught nurse. She started out she was always interested in space delivering supplies during the American travel but wondered why there were no Civil War but also took care of wounded female astronauts. After some time in soldiers. She became known as the medical practice, she applied to NASA “Angel of the Battlefield.” Later, she and was accepted. She became the worked to establish the Red Cross in first Black woman to travel in space in America and became its first president. 1992 on the space shuttle Endeavor.

Danica Patrick is a retired professional Maya Lin is an American architect race car driver. Her love of racing and sculptor who grew up reading and began at age 10 when she began building miniature towns. Her work mostly competing in go-kart races. As an reflects history or the environment. She adult, she broke many barriers and set is best known for creating the designs records in a sport that mostly favors for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in men. She was the first woman to win Washington, DC, and the Civil Rights an IndyCar championship event. Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.

Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountain Michelle Obama is a lawyer, writer, and climber, author, and teacher. She began the wife of former US President Barack climbing mountains at the age of 10, Obama. As First Lady, she worked hard despite her small size. She became to support military families. She also the first woman to reach the top of cared deeply about childhood obesity Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in and led a public health campaign called the world. An asteroid and a mountain “Let’s Move!” She planted a vegetable range on Pluto are named after her. garden on the South Lawn of the White House to promote healthy eating.

Nellie Bly is the pen name of Elizabeth Sacajawea was a Shoshone woman Jane Cochran. She started writing who traveled thousands of miles with the at a time when female newspaper Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an writers could not use their own names. interpreter. She also helped by pointing She wrote bold stories and once out edible plants, making moccasins and pretended to be insane to find out clothing, and assuring tribes they met the truth about conditions in a mental that the group was friendly. Her name institution. She is best known for her is thought to mean “Bird Woman.” trip around the world in 72 days. Sandra Day O’Connor is retired from Patsy Mink was a Hawaiian attorney one of the most important jobs in the and legislator. She was the first Asian- United States: justice on the Supreme American woman to practice law in Court. She was the first woman ever Hawaii and the first woman of color to hold this position. Her career as elected to Congress. Her life’s work a lawyer, politician, and Supreme focused on wiping out the kind of Court justice was quite a change from discrimination she had faced. Her work her childhood on an Arizona ranch focused on the rights of immigrants, without electricity and running water. minorities, women, and children.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also known by her initials “RBG,” was a lawyer, professor, and Supreme Court justice. Much of her earliest legal work focused on gender equality and women’s rights. She won multiple arguments before the Supreme Court. She joined the Supreme Court as its second female member in 1993.