List of American women's firsts
List of American women's firsts - Wikipedia
17th century · 1635. Anne Hutchinson was the first American woman to start a Protestant sect. · 1640. Anne Bradstreet was the first published poet in the ...
Famous Firsts in Women's History ‑ In Sports, Politics & Health
1. First women's-rights convention meets in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848 · 2. Wyoming Territory is first to grant women the vote, 1869 · 3. · 4. · 5 ...
Notable Women Firsts - UMKC Libraries Book Displays
1932, Amelia Earhart, First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean ; 1921, Bessie Coleman, First woman of African American and Native ...
Time of First-Time Achievements for American Women - Investopedia
Timeline of First-Time Achievements for American Women · Who Was the First American Woman to Become a Doctor? Dr, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in the ...
Female Firsts - Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers
Although American women are unable to vote, activist Victoria Woodhull, a champion of such diverse causes as woman suffrage and free love, becomes the first ...
Famous Female Firsts: 85 Trailblazing Women Who Made History
Anthony, the first woman in America depicted on a U.S. coin. Susan B. Anthony was a powerhouse of temperance, abolition, labor rights and equal ...
22 Women From History Who Were 'Firsts' in Their Fields - Time
There's Jeannette Rankin, who was the first woman ever elected to U.S. national office — even before the 19th Amendment gave women across the ...
Milestones for Women in American Politics
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, even though she was not eligible to vote. She ran as an Independent ...
7 Female Firsts in U.S. Politics - Britannica
On July 28, 2016, at the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential candidate of a major US political party.
First Ladies of the United States - National Park Service
Our First Ladies ; Mary Lincoln Wife to President Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 ; Julia Grant Julia Dent Grant Wife to President Ulysses S. Grant 1869 ...
Famous Firsts by American Women, 1587–1900 - InfoPlease
Anne Bradstreet's book of poems, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, is published in England, making her the first published American ...
41 Famous Women in History Who Have Changed the World
Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Michelle Obama are just some of the women who have become famous for shaping history as ...
Women in American History | American Experience | Official Site - PBS
Watch Films · Fly With Me · The Sun Queen · Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space · Sandra Day O'Connor: The First · Voice of Freedom · The Codebreaker · The Vote.
Women's Milestones in U.S. Government - University of Illinois Library
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk. 1869 – Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to ...
Women's History Milestones: A Timeline
10, 1869: The legislature of the territory of Wyoming passes America's first woman suffrage law, granting women the right to vote and hold ...
Historians Pick 9 Women From U.S. History You Should Know | TIME
9 Women From American History You Should Know, According to Historians · Emilia Casanova de Villaverde · Mary Ware Dennett · Dorothea Dix · Claudia ...
Timeline of women in the United States - Wikipedia
1756: Lydia Taft ; 1821: Emma Willard ; 1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women ...
The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology
Her long list of firsts includes first female commencement speaker at the ... On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride transformed history when she became the first American ...
Book of Women's Firsts: Breakthrough Achievements of Almost 1000 ...
1st printing. Faint edge wear. A comprehensive reference that chronicles first achievements of American women from the 16th century to the present, this ...
5 Famous Firsts Achieved By Women | Encyclopaedia Britannica
... First Computer Programmer (1843) 2. Zora Neale Hurston: First Anthropologic Collector of African American Folktales (1935) 3. Nadia Comaneci: ...