She is an astronaut, doctor, engineer, writer, teacher, and dancer. Her adventurous spirit has taken her from healing people around the world, to dancing on stage, to orbiting the earth on the Space Shuttle Endeavour…

Billie Jean King is an iconic tennis champion and activist who changed the world of women’s sports. She was named the world’s top-ranked female tennis player six times and won thirty-nine Grand Slam titles…

Sacajawea was a brilliant, multilingual Shoshone girl who was torn from her home at a young age. In 1804, she set out with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide across hundreds of miles of unmapped land to reach the Pacific Ocean…

Irena Sendler was a humanitarian and social worker in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Her job allowed her to pass through the armed gates of the Warsaw ghetto, bringing limited aid to the 450,000 Jewish people who were forcibly moved there…

A graphic novel for children ages 7 to 10. Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist during the 1940s and 1950s, when few women worked in the sciences…

Josephine Baker left a segregated America in 1925 and became the most famous entertainer in Paris, France. She went on to be the first Black woman to star in a movie…

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean…

Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress…

Ida B. Wells was a groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist in the decades after the Civil War…

Dolly Parton is an award-winning songwriter and entertainer, who released her first single when she was just thirteen years old…