Famous Women's History Month Biographies

• Anthony, Susan B.

  The women's rights activist on the one-dollar coin

• Biden, Jill

  The First Lady of the United States, 2021-present

• Coney Barrett, Amy

  President Trump's Supreme Court Pick Just Before Election 2020

• Davis, Angela

  The black feminist/communist on the Most Wanted list in 1970

• Dix, Dorothea

  The 19th-century woman who improved treatment of the insane

• Friedan, Betty

  The author of 'The Feminine Mystique'

• Gorman, Amanda

  The National Youth Poet Laureate who read at Joe Biden's inauguration

• Greer, Germaine

  Feminist author of 'The Female Eunuch'

• Harris, Kamala

  The first woman to be elected vice-president of the United States

• Harris, Lusia

  The subject of the 2021 documentary 'The Queen of Basketball'

• Holm, Eleanor

  The Olympic swimmer kicked off the 1936 American team for partying

• Jones, Gayl

  The author of 'Eva's Man' and 'The Healing'

• Keller, Helen

  The blind and deaf woman who became a famous activist

• Kerr, Anita

  Creator and leader of country music's The Anita Kerr Singers

• Kilgallen, Dorothy

  The New York journalist who died "mysteriously" while investigating JFK’s death

• Knight, Gladys

  The soul singer who did "Midnight Train to Georgia" with The Pips

• Lease, Mary Elizabeth

  The 19th century activist who wrote 'The Problem of Civilization Solved'

• Lister, Anne

  The 19th century diarist who inspired TV's 'Gentleman Jack'

• Lowell, Robert

  The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies

• Mankiller, Wilma

  The first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

• Markham, Beryl

  The author of the memoir West With the Night

• McDaniel, Hattie

  The first black actor to win an Oscar, in 1940

• Moseley-Braun, Carol

  The first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate

• Murray, Pauli

  The Civil Rights Era hero who became an Episcopalian priest

• Nichols, Nichelle

  Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek TV series

• Paglia, Camille

  The professor-author of 1990’s Sexual Personae

• Phyllis McAlpin Stewart

  The Republican woman who helped defeat the ERA in the 1970s

• Scott, Hazel

  The jazz star who had her own TV show in 1950, The Hazel Scott Show

• Sitwell, Edith

  The eccentric poet who wrote 1941's "Still Falls the Rain"

• Solnit, Rebecca

  The author of 'The Faraway Nearby' and 'Men Explain Things to Me'

• Stone, Lucy

  The abolitionist and women's suffragist who started 'The Woman's Journal'

• Tanning, Dorothea

  The surrealist artist who did Birthday and was married to Max Ernst

• Tyson, Cicely

  The star of 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'

• Warren, Elizabeth

  U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 2013-

• Wong, Anna May

  Hollywood's first Chinese American film star

• Woodhull, Victoria Claflin

  The first woman candidate for U.S. President

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