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Deb Haaland !"'% – is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna and one of the , rst two Native American women elected to the US Congress.
Shirley Chisholm !"$& – $%%+ was the daughter of West Indian immigrants and the , rst African American woman elected to the US Congress. In 1972, she was the , rst Black candidate to run for a major party’s nomination in the presidential election.
Fannie Lou Hamer !"!) – !")) was a civil rights and voting rights activist and an outspoken founding member of several civil rights organizations.
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A CTIVIST
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Rosa Parks !"!( – $%%+ was a civil rights activist famous for her strategic refusal to give up a bus seat in the “whites only” area of a city bus, spurring the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Mary Church Terrell !#'( – !"+& was one of the , rst Black women to earn a college degree. She was a su - ragist and a founding member of the NAACP.
Jane Addams !#'% – !"(+ was an activist and social worker who co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union. She was the , rst American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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A CTIVIST
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Harriet Tubman !#$$ – !"!( was a former enslaved woman who led 70 enslaved people to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She also led raids that freed more than 700 enslaved people during the Civil War.
Sojourner T ruth !)") – !##( was an orator, abolitionist, and su - ragist who gave a famous speech titled “Ain’t I a Woman” at a women’s rights conference in Ohio.
Septima Poinsette Clark !#"# – !"#) was an activist and educator who created “citizenship schools,” helping hundreds of thousands of Black citizens in the South learn to read and become legal voters.
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