This presentation provides an overview of the diversity in women's history; containing pictures and brief descriptions of women from various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.

1. National Women’s History Month
Recognizing the plurality of voices
in American women’s history.
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3. Phillis Wheatley
Renowned poet -- 1773
(Library of Congress)
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4. Harriet Tubman
Former slave, and ‘Conductor of
the Underground Railroad’ -- New
York, 1911 (Library of Congress)
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5. Sojourner Truth
Preacher, abolitionist, and women's
rights advocate (Library of Congress)
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6. Ida B. Wells
Journalist, civil rights
advocate, suffragist –- 1891
(Library of Congress)
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7. Members of the Women's League
Advocates of women’s rights -- Newport, R.I. 1899 (Library of Congress)
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8. Zora
Neale
Hurston
Author, folklorist,
and anthropologist
(Library of Congress)
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9. Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939 (Library of Congress)
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10. African American nurses, commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army
Nurses Corps, working-out during an advanced training course in Australia --
2/1944 (U.S. National Archives)
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11. Ella
Fitzgerald
Renowned Jazz musician
during the Harlem
Renaissance –- New York,
September 1947
(Library of Congress)
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13. Mary
Wollstonecraft
Early feminist; author of A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
-- 1792 (Library of Congress)
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14. “Call to the First Women's Rights Convention as it appeared in the Seneca County
Courier, July 14, 1848” (National Park Service)
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15. Susan B. Anthony
Well-known abolitionist; worked
together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
to publish a woman's newspaper,
Revolution, and form the National
Woman Suffrage Association (Library
of Congress)
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16. Lucy Stone
Antislavery and women's rights
lecturer; coordinator for the first
national American women's rights
convention; co-editor of the Woman’s
Journal, a women's suffrage
newspaper (Library of Congress)
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17. Carrie
Chapman Catt
Leading member of the National
American Woman Suffrage
Association (NAWSA) and key
player in the success of the
suffrage movement (Library of
Congress)
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18. Alice Paul
Sewing another star on the suffragist flag, around 1919 (Library of Congress)
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19. Women marching in a national suffrage demonstration -- Washington,
D.C. 5/9/1914 (Library of Congress)
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20. Prison cell (U. S. National Archives)
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21. 1st women jury -- Los Angeles,
November 1911 (Library of Congress)
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23. Mary Edwards Walker
First female Army medical officer (Civil War);
suffragist and dress reformer -- 1912 (Library of
Congress)
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24. Marie Curie
(center)
Chemist; two-time Noble Prize winner,
co-discovered the radium element
(Library of Congress)
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25. Scientists making cultures of parasites -- 1910-1920? (Library of Congress)
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26. Margaret D.
Foster
American chemist -- October
4, 1919 (Library of Congress)
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27. Amelia Earhart
First woman to pilot a plane across the
Atlantic Ocean (Library of Congress)
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28. Willa Beatrice
Brown
Trained pilots for the U.S. Army Air
Forces, the first African American
woman be commissioned as a
lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air
Patrol during the WWII-era (U.S.
National Archives)
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29. Sally Ride
America's first woman
astronaut -- 06/18/1983 -
06/24/1983 (U.S. National
Archives)
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31. Soledad Chavez Chacon
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First female secretary of state for New
Mexico, 1922 (National Women’s
History Museum)

32. Dolores Del Rio
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Early Mexican American actress
(Library of Congress)

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Carrot pickers -- Edinburg, Texas, February 1939
(Library of Congress)

34. Chamisal, New Mexico -- July 1940 (Library of Congress)
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35. “Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative
Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico” -- January 1942
(Library of Congress)
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Dolores Huerta
Labor activist (National Women’s History Museum)

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Sandra Cisneros
Renowned author of the The House on
Mango Street and Caramelo (Library
of Congress)

38. Works Cited
National women’s history museum. Retrieved from https://www.nwhm.org.
Notable women’s rights leaders. National Park Service. Retrieved from
http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/notable-womens-rights-
leaders.htm.
Prints & photographs online catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved from
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/.
Women of protest: photographs from the records of the National Woman's
Party. Library of Congress. Retrieved from
http://www.loc.gov/collection/women-of-protest/.
Women’s History. U.S. National Archives. Retrieved from
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/721576262
53040564/.
Women striving forward, 1910s-40s. Library of Congress. Retrieved from
https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157614805050
380/.
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