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Take the HERstory Challenge - How many of these amazing women are you able to find? Get inspired and try out each HERstory Challenge! Learn about Hidden Figures of the Suffrage Movement and Advocacy in this Activity Packet. ❧ Trefoil indicates that she was a Girl Scout!

☙ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also known by her � Dian Fossey dedicated her life to saving endangered initials AOC, is an American politician serving as the Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda from hunters. Challenge: U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional Act like your very favorite animal! What sound does it district. Challenge: Think about something in your make? How does it move? community that you love and want to protect. � Katherine Johnson was a famous mathematician, and Adella Hunt Logan the first librarian at the Tuskegee her math skills were used to make the first space flights Institute. She led the Tuskegee Woman’s Club, an possible. You might know her from the movie “Hidden affiliate of the National Association of Colored Women. Figures.” Challenge: Read a book by your favorite author! Challenge: Count as high as you can! Nina E. Allender is a famous artist from Kansas, known � Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin of the Turtle for creating pro-women's suffrage political cartoons. Mountain Chippewa tribe, became a nationally Challenge: Draw your recognized spokesperson for Indigenous women’s rights own cartoon → and suffrage over the course of her lifetime. She learned the power of advocacy through law from her father, who spent his life representing the rights of the Ojibwa/ Chippewa Nation. lost her sight and hearing as a Challenge: Talk about what you could do if you saw baby. Working hard to overcome challenges, people being treated unfairly because of the color of their she graduated from college, wrote books, skin. and stood up for others with disabilities. Dr. was the first female Challenge: Make the sign for I love you � doctor in the . in sign language! Challenge: Name 5 things you can do to stay healthy. Greta Thunberg is a 17-year old girl from Sweden who � Malala Yousafzai is a young woman from Pakistan who wants to stop climate change and save the earth! has been fighting for the rights of girls to go to school Challenge: Be an eco-activist! Use sidewalk chalk to let since she was a teenager. She was even co-awarded the others know some ways they can help the planet! 2014 Nobel Peace Prize at age 17! Challenge: Celebrate women’s education. Read for at Mabel Ping Hua Lee was the first Chinese woman to least 15 minutes today! earn a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. Challenge: Play Monopoly at your next family game night! � Dr. Marie Curie was a French scientist who discovered radioactivity and was the first woman to win a ☙ founded the Nobel Prize. Girl Scouts over 100 years ago! Challenge: Be a scientist like Marie Curie! Do your own Challenge: Learn the Girl Scout sign! science experiment at home. Try this easy one: Magic Milk Molly Williams was a formerly enslaved person who Pour a half cup of milk in a shallow bowl. Then, drop a few became the first female firefighter in 1818. droplets of food coloring into the milk in different spots. Challenge: Talk with your family about what you would You will notice that they stay floating on the top in small do if there was a fire. What is your family safety plan? dots. Put some dish soap on the end of a Q-tip, then touch Learn how to stop, drop, and roll! the food coloring dots. Watch as the colors swirl around on their own and create a magical tie-dye design!The Science: At first, the food coloring sits on the surface, but the soap creates a chemical reaction that breaks the surface tension. Science is amazing!

Dr. was one of America’s most respected � Ida B. Wells she became increasingly involved in politics writers and poets. She was a strong civil rights activist! to stop the trend of social injustice. Challenge: Try to rhyme as many words as you can! Challenge: Rock the vote! Set up a family vote on an Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in the issue, like what you are having for dinner or what game you will play. Why is voting important? United States and 3rd most in the world! She has won over 30 medals at only 23 years old. � was a Catholic nun who spent her life Challenge: Test your balance by standing on one leg for helping the poor and sick. as long as you can! Challenge: Do 5 random acts of kindness this week! Dr. is an expert on both animal behavior � Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb and . She invented the , which makes to the top of Mount Everest, which is the some people with sensory issues feel safe! This was tallest mountain in the world! important to her because she has autism herself. Challenge: Learn how to do a mountain Challenge: Give someone in your family a hug! climber exercise. How many can you do? Dr. Gloria Randle Scott became the first African- � ☙ Sylvia Acevedo is an American engineer and American to receive a degree in zoology from Indiana businesswoman. A systems engineer by education, she University. She was president of the Girl Scouts from 1975 began her career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to 1978 The Girl Scout Trefoil was redesigned during the where she was on the Voyager 2 team. She is the former last year of her presidency. CEO of GSUSA, and author of Path to the Stars: My Challenge: Practice drawing the Girl Scout Trefoil! Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist. Challenge: Go outside after dark and check out the stars. Madam C.J. Walker is America’s first female self-made Can you see any constellations? millionaire. She created her own line of makeup and hair care products specifically for Black women! � ☙ co-founded the farmworkers’ rights Challenge: Give yourself or a family member a new movement in the United States, where she helped farm hairstyle! (no cutting!) workers get better working conditions. Challenge: Learn to say Delores Huerta’s famous phrase, was the first woman to receive the rank Anna Mae Hays “Yes, We Can!” in Spanish! of General in the United States Army. Spanish: ‘Sí se puede.’ (Phonetic pronunciation: See. Say. Challenge: Do you have what it takes to be in the Army? Pway-day) Try to do a push up!

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Sofia de Veyra moved from her native Philippines to Washington, D.C., in 1917. The Philippines were under American rule during this period, and de Veyra’s husband represented the territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. A dedicated clubwoman, she immediately joined the Congressional Red Cross Unit and devoted close to 1,000 hours of service to domestic war efforts. During her six years in the United States, she lectured and wrote articles on Filipino history and culture. She wove her passion for women’s rights into all of her speeches and articles and included her observations about the differences between women’s lives in American and Filipino society. In 1925, de Veyra returned to the Philippines, where she founded, organized, and led multiple women’s clubs and federations. Using this position of power, she organized and fought for women’s suffrage in the Philippines until it was ultimately granted in 1937.

Ethel Cuff Black was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and studied at the Industrial School for Colored Youth in New Jersey, where she excelled in academics. She went on to Howard University, joining Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the nation’s first African American sorority. In 1913, twenty-two members of AKA, including Cuff, split from the organization and formed their own sorority. The new group, Delta Sigma Theta (Delta), devoted themselves to social activism and community service. Cuff was elected the sorority’s first vice president and attended the Deltas’ first public event, the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C., in March 1913. Prominent suffragist Mary Church Terrell lobbied on behalf of the Deltas to win them a place in the parade, where they were the only African American organization represented. After college, Black went on to a career in teaching, working in several states and eventually returning to Delaware as a faculty member at Delaware State College.

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California | girlscoutshcc.org | 1-800-322-4475 Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Wideman Dowsett was a Native Hawaiian, member of the royal family, and suffragist who, upon the annexation of Hawai’i as a U.S. Territory in 1898, began to organize for women’s voting rights. She created the Women’s Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai’i and campaigned with other Native Hawaiian women. In March 1919, President Wilson signed a bill that allowed the territory of Hawai’i to decide for itself whether or not women would be enfranchised. Dowsett spearheaded the movement that petitioned, protested, and demanded suffrage. She began various grassroots movements that promoted suffrage and lobbied the Hawaiian government. The women of Hawai’i won the right to vote in 1920, but they were not granted full voting rights in the United States until 39 years later when Hawaii became the fiftieth state.

Harriet Forten-Purvis was born to one of the most prominent and activist African American families in Philadelphia. She spent her life fighting for the rights of African Americans and women in the United States. In 1831, she married Robert Purvis, an abolitionist and advocate. At the time, women were excluded from membership in the American Anti-Slavery Society, so she and a dozen other women founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. The group encouraged the boycott of certain products made with slave labor, which gave women a political voice through purchasing decisions. Along with Margaretta Forten, her sister, Forten-Purvis was a lead organizer of the fifth National Women’s Rights Convention. After the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, allowing African American men voting rights, Forten-Purvis joined with her friend Susan B. Anthony and the National Woman Suffrage Association to lobby for a constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage.

Born in Laredo, Texas, Jovita Idár was part of a family of political activists and grew to be one of the most influential voices for Mexican American rights. Working for a time as a teacher, she experienced first-hand the injustices of a segregated school system. Idár then entered the field of journalism, writing for her family’s publication La Crónica, which was at the forefront of Mexican American civil rights. She wrote about working-class feminist struggles and supported women’s right to vote. In 1911, she founded the educational advocacy group La Liga Femenil Mexicaista. In 1914, Idár joined the editorial staff of El Progreso, a liberal periodical that was forcibly shut down by Texas Rangers after she criticized the Wilson administration. Idár’s main focus was always the empowerment of Mexican American women through education as a first step toward independence, equality, and enfranchisement.

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California | girlscoutshcc.org | 1-800-322-4475 Ruza Wenclawska, also known as Rose Winslow, was a Polish immigrant who came to the United States as a child with her parents. She lived in Pittsburgh, where she began working in factories at the age of 11. She later advocated for immigrant workers, especially women, in her role as a factory inspector and organizer. She organized for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which later became the National Woman’s Party, speaking in the streets and at rallies. She also educated working women to help them understand how the right to vote could improve their working conditions. Wenclawska often debated with suffrage leader about the movement’s unfulfilled promises to immigrant and working class women. In 1917, Wenclawska was arrested for protesting at the White House as a “Silent Sentinel” and was jailed at the Occoquan Workhouse, where she went on a hunger-strike and was consequently force-fed.

Zitkála-Šá- Just as the Fifteenth Amendment did not grant Native American men the right to vote, the Nineteenth Amendment did not enable Native American women to vote. A Yankton Sioux of South Dakota, Zitkála-Šá fought for Indigenous political rights throughout her life. She joined the pan-Indian movement in lobbying for the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted citizenship rights to most tribal peoples in the United States but did not guarantee all the right to vote. She founded the National Council of American Indians in 1926, which promoted citizenship rights, better educational opportunities, cultural preservation, and recognition for Native Americans. Zitkála-Šá worked tirelessly with other members of the Indigenous community to win civil rights for the Native peoples of the United States.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg often refereed to as RBG was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Justice Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and was the first Jewish woman to serve on the court. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. Between O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and the appointment of in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, notably in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2007). Ginsburg's dissenting opinion was credited with inspiring the Fair Pay Act which was signed into law by President in 2009, making it easier for employees to win pay discrimination claims.

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California | girlscoutshcc.org | 1-800-322-4475 Who Got the Right to Vote When?

1776 - Only people who own land can vote.

1848- Anti slavery and women's right activist unite.

1856- all states allow all white men to vote.

1863- President Lincoln passes the Emancipation Proclamation~this only applied to the states in rebellion and slaves didn't receive the information until June 1865.

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California | girlscoutshcc.org | 1-800-322-4475 1920- Right to vote extended to women 19th Amendment passed, giving white women the right to vote in both state and federal elections.

1947- Legal barriers to native American voting removed. Native American and former Marine, Miquel Trujillo sues for not allowing him to vote. He wins, and New Mexico and are required to give the right to vote to all Native Americans.

1952- People with Asian ancestry can vote. McCarran-Walter Act grants all people of Asian ancestry the right to become citizens.

1965- Blacks and Mexican-Americans gain the right to vote. Grassroots movement forces change in law voting Rights Act passed. It forbids states from imposing discriminatory restrictions on who can vote, and provides mechanisms for the federal government to enforce its provisions.

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California | girlscoutshcc.org | 1-800-322-4475 1971-Voting age lowered to 18 26th Amendment passed, granting voting rights to 18-year-olds. The amendment is largely a result of Vietnam War protests demanding a lowering of the voting age on the premise that people who are old enough to fight are old enough to vote.

1993-Making voter registration easier National Voter Registration Act passed. Intends to increase the number of eligible citizens who register to vote by making registration available at the Department of Motor Vehicles, and public assistance and disabilities agencies.

2000-Residents of US colonies are citizens, but cannot vote. A month before the presidential election, a federal court decides that Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico, though US citizens, cannot vote for the US president. Residents of US territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands - nearly 4.1 million people in total - cannot vote in presidential elections and do not have voting representation in the US Congress.

2014-Part of Voting Rights Act of 1965 struck down. The Supreme Court weakens the law that had ensured federal government oversight of changes to voting systems in states with a history of discriminating against minority voters. Today, voter suppression tactics, including purging voter rolls, imposing strict voter identification laws, limiting the number of polling locations and cutting voting times, effectively deny countless Americans the right to vote.

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