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| 1. | Harriet ____
Born a slave, she was one of the most famous opponents of slavery in the years before the U.S. Civil War. Over the course of some sixteen years, she guided approximately three hundred other slaves to freedom in the North via a network of safe houses called the "Underground Railroad." |
| 2. | Barbara ____
In 1989 she became the first woman bishop in the Worldwide Anglican Communion providing a towering example of how far women had come in their struggle for equality in mainline Protestant churches. |
| 3. | Hillary Rodham ____
Born in 1947, she's been a lawyer, first lady, and is a United States senator representing the State of New York. |
| 4. | Janet ____
In 1993, she was nominated to the position of U.S. Attorney General by President Clinton and became the first woman ever to hold the position. |
| 5. | Virginia ____
Born in 1882 and raised in London, she was one of the most notable Modernist writers, completing nine novels, one play, over five volumes of essays, portraits, memoirs, reviews, more than fourteen volumes of diaries and letters, and forty-six short stories. Her literary career plan was to reshape the way novels were known by deeply engaging the reader with the story's structure as well as its content. |
| 6. | Golda ____
As the Zionist Labor leader, she served as Israel's foreign minister from 1956 to 1966. In 1969 she became Israel's fourth Prime Minister. |
| 7. | Jackie Joyner ____
This world-class athlete won a silver medal in the heptathlon in the 1984 Olympics and gold medals in the 1988 and 1992 Games. She also won a gold medal in the long jump in 1988 (the first American woman ever to do so) and a bronze at the 1992 Olympics. She still holds the world record in the long jump, at 24 feet 7 inches. |
| 8. | Barbara ____
This television journalist debuted as the first woman co-anchor of a network evening news program in October 1976, having been offered an unprecedented $1 million annual salary. |
| 9. | Anne ____
She achieved world fame through the publication of her diary after her death from typhus in 1945 while in the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen. In her diary she described the lives of eight Jews in hiding in the city of Amsterdam between June 1942 and August 1944. |
| 10. | Oprah ____
This famous TV personality launched her popular talk show in 1986 with a pledge to keep her production free of trashy tabloid topics. She attracted an audience of 10 million people with the show, grossing $125 million by the end of its first year. She soon gained ownership of the program from ABC under the control of her new company, "Harpo Productions." |
| 11. | Lucille ____
From 1951 to 1957, she played the wacky redheaded wife of her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz. She paved the way for the 30-minute sit-com to gradually replace the once-dominant hour-long comedy variety show. |
| 12. | Clara ____
Born in 1821, she was known as a humanitarian and founder of the American Red Cross. |
| 13. | Princess ____
She married Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1981 at St. Paul's Cathedral, before a congregation of 2,500 people. An estimated 750 million people worldwide watched the televised ceremony. |
| 14. | Amelia ____
She was the first female pilot to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Four years later, she attempted a flight around the world, disappeared en route, and was never heard from again. |
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| 1. | Margaret ____
She was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990. |
| 15. | Florence ____
Born in Florence, Italy, in 1820, she was a nurse and the founder of modern nursing. |
| 16. | Aretha ____
As winner of 17 Grammy Awards and numerous other honors throughout her career, this legendary singer has been labeled the "Queen of Soul." In 1967, she recorded two of her trademark tunes, "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman" and "Respect." |
| 17. | J.K. ____
This author was born in 1965 near Bristol, England. As a single mother living in Edinburgh, Scotland, she became an international literary sensation in 1999, when the first three installments of her Harry Potter children's book series took over the top three slots of the New York Times best-seller list. |
| 18. | Helen ____
At the age of 19 months, she was struck with a fever that left her blind and deaf. A devoted tutor, Anne Sullivan Macy taught her to read, write, and speak. Despite her handicaps, she spent the remainder of her life leading humanitarian efforts to vastly improve the quality of living for the disabled. |
| 19. | Sandra Day ____
In 1981, she became the first woman to serve as a justice of the United States Supreme Court. |
| 20. | Eleanor ____
Known as a humanitarian, United Nations diplomat, and first lady, her involvement in twentieth century politics had a huge impact on such issues as feminism and civil rights, public policy and social work, and international peace relationships with the United States. Her father was the younger brother of President Theodore Roosevelt (whose presidency lasted from 1901-1909). |
| 21. | Susan B. ____
She was the pioneer crusader for women's rights in the United States and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 to 1900. In 1979 she became the first woman to have her face appear on U.S. currency. |
| 22. | Valentina ____
She was the first woman in space! She took off from the Tyuratam Space Station in 1963 and orbited the Earth for almost three days, showing that women had the same resistance to space as men. She then toured the world promoting Soviet science and feminism, and served on the Soviet Women's Committee and the Supreme Soviet Presidium. |
| 23. | Billie Jean ____
In 1971, she became the first woman athlete to win more than $100,000 in a single year. She gained even greater fame in 1972 when she won the Wimbledon women's singles, the U.S. Open singles, and the French Open. She won a record 20 Wimbledon championships (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) during her tennis career. |
| 24. | Elizabeth ____
She was a physician and the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. |
| 25. | Elizabeth Cady ____
She lived in a time when women could not own property, had no rights to earned wages, could legally be beaten by their husbands, and had no legal rights over their children. Along with Lucretia Mott, she organized the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, and spent the next fifty years organizing and leading the campaign for women's equality. |
| 26. | Rosa ____
She is best known for her refusal, on December 1, 1955, to give up her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and fined, but her action led to a successful boycott of the Montgomery buses by African-American riders. |
| 27. | Mother ____
Born in 1910 in Yugoslavia, she felt a calling to help the poor and left home at the age of 18 to become a Roman Catholic nun. She later founded the only Catholic religious order still growing in membership. In 1979, she won the Nobel Prize for Peace for her life-long work among the poor and dying of India. |
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