CD-110513 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. © Carson Dellosa • CD-110513 1 Artists & Performers 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. © Carson Dellosa • CD-110513 2 Artists & Performers 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. © Carson Dellosa • CD-110513 3 Athletes 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.