Amelia Earhart - 24 July 1897
- 1921 - Began flying lessons with Neta Snook
- July 1921 - Bought first plane, Kinner Airster (Canary)
- October 22, 1922 - Broke women's altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet
- June 17-18, 1928 - First woman to fly across the Atlantic; 20hrs 40min (Fokker F7, Friendship)
- Summer 1928 - Bought an Avro Avian, a small English plane famous because Lady Mary Heath, Britain's foremost woman pilot had flown it solo from Capetown, South Africa to London
- Fall 1928 - Published book 20 Hours 40 Minutes, toured and lectured; became aviation editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
- August 1929 - Placed third in the First Women's Air Derby, aka the Powder Puff Derby; upgraded from her Avian to a Lockheed Vega
One afternoon in April 1928, a phone call came "Would you like to fly the Atlantic?" he asked, to which she promptly replied, "Yes!" Their landmark flight made headlines worldwide, and when the crew returned to the United States they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge at the White House. From then on, her life revolved around flying. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby, later nicknamed the "Powder Puff Derby"
Alice Paul - 11thJanuary 1885
______and her followers in the National Women's Party picketed the White House. They stood silently at the gates, holding signs that said "Mr. president, how long must women wait for liberty?" The picketers were suffragists. They wanted President Woodrow Wilson to support a Constitutional amendment giving all American women suffrage, or the right to vote.
Danica Patrick -
When a 23-year-old rookie named Danica Patrick became the first woman to lead the Indianapolis 500 three years ago, she raised the tantalizing possibility that in a male-dominated American sport, a woman might for the first time stand in victory lane.
Victoria Woodhull
In 1871, the flamboyant "free love" advocate, journalist and investment counsellor she declared herself a candidate for president representing the Equal Rights Party. Her platform included an eight-hour work day, graduated income tax, and new divorce law. Since women could not yet vote, her campaign did not get far.
Lillian Wald
She first studied medicine, then moved to the immigrant lower east side of New York, where she trained nurses to educate and treat the poor, an activity that became the Henry Street Settlement House. In 1914, a week after the United States entered World War I, she was one of the leaders of a 1500-woman peace march, which included female representatives of all the warring nations.
Alice Coachman
At the 1948 Olympics, ______gold in the high jump competition put her in the record books. A track and basketball star at Tuskegee Institution, she participated in sports against the wishes of her father, who, she said, wanted his daughters to be "dainty, sitting on the front porch."
Dorothy Dandridge
Until 1954, no African-American woman had received the coveted Oscar nomination for a starring role, but she was a knockout in "Carmen Jones," an adaptation of Bizet's Opera, "Carmen." She lost to Grace Kelly. The first African-American to appear on the cover of Life magazine, her fame sputtered into years of trouble and she died in 1965 at the age of 42 of a drug overdose the coroner deemed "undetermined" as accidental or purposeful.
Sally Ride
Women had been trying to enter the astronaut program since the 1960's, when NASA required them to wear high heels and hose during qualifying tests. Eventually, by 1983, astrophysicist Sally Ride broke the gender barrier, travelling as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger.