American lawyer and jurist who was a renowned advocate for gender equality and women's rights before serving as the U.S. Supreme Court’s second female justice from 1993 until 2020.
American political figure, diplomat and activist who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 and as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952.
Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize as well as the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
American artistic gymnast best known for being a member of the Magnificent Seven, which won the United States' first team gold medal in Olympic gymnastics.
English mathematician and writer, chiefly credited as the first person to recognize the full potential of a “computing machine” as having applications beyond pure calculation.
Activist who played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus during the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955.
Abolitionist and political activist who escaped slavery and led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom in the mid-1800s through the Underground Railroad.
NASA mathematician who helped pioneer the use of computers to calculate and analyze the flight paths of many spacecraft during her 30-year career at the agency.
A decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.
Award-winning poet, author, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist who made literary history as the first African American woman to write a nonfiction bestseller.
American contralto whose prominence was critical in the struggle for Black artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the mid-twentieth century.
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist who at the time of her death was considered the wealthiest African-American businesswoman and wealthiest self-made Black woman in America.
Nobel-prize-winning novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor whose works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States.