Women's History Month Timeline

  • Aphra Ben

    Aphra Ben
    Aphra Behn [Aphara] was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era
  • Jane Austin

    Jane Austin
    Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, she and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and social activists
  • Helen Keller:

    Helen Keller:
    Overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf.
  • Ella Baker

    Ella Josephine Baker was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist.
  • Eva peron

    Persident of Juan Peron
  • First woman to fly solo

    The first femail pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, mysterias
  • Melba Pattillo

    Melba Pattillo
    A group of African American students who were the first to intergrate Central High in Little Rock
  • Rosa Parks:Fighting for civil rights

    Rosa was an African-American civil rights activist. who refused to to serrender her bus seat and ended segregation.
  • Angela Bassett

    Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress and film director
  • Maya Lin

    Maya Lin
    Maya Ying Lin is an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art.
  • Sally Kristen Ride

    Sally Ride a astronaut and astrophysicist was the first woman to ride the space shuttle.
  • First Black Woman in Space

    First Black Woman in Space
    Mae, C Jemison is the first African-American female astronaut. In 1992, she flew into space.
  • Elizabeth Taylor

    Elizabeth Taylor
    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress, businesswoman and humanitarian
  • Angela Davis

    Angela Davis
    Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author