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Trailblazing Women: Biographies

Trailblazing Women

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Politics, Activism & Civic Leadership

Link to Princess Diana Resource Guide
Link to Angela Davis Resource Guide
Link to Jeanette Rankin Resource Guide
Link to Helen Keller Resource Guide
Link to Malala Yousafzai biography resource guide
Link to Ida B. Wells Resource Guide
Link to Shirley Chisholm Resource Guide
Link to Ernestine Eckstein biography resource guide
Link to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Resource Guide
Link to Madame CJ Walker biography resource guide
Link to Kamala Harris Resource Guide
Link to Rosa Parks biography resource guide
Link to Michelle Obama Resource Guide
Link to Ella Baker biography resource guide
Link to Marsha P. Johnson Resource Guide
Link to Ruth Bader Ginsburg Resource Guide
Link to Wangari Maathai Resource Guide
Link to Ella T Grasso biography resource guide

 

Science, Medicine & Conservation

Link to Jane Goodall Resource Guide
Link to Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Resource Guide
Link to Lillian Wald Resource Guide
Link to Chien-Shiung Wu biography resource guide
Link to Alice Hamilton biography resource guide
Link to Alice Ball biography resource guide
Link to Marie Curie biography resource guide
Link to Mabel Osgood Wright biography resource guide
Link to Ynes Mexia biography resource guide

 

Sports

Link to Billie Jean King Resource Guide
Link to Serena Williams biography resource guide
Link to Mia Hamm Resource Guide

 

Visual & Performing Arts

Link to Marian Anderson biography resource guide
Link to Yayoi Kusama's Resource Guide
Link to Linda Martell biography resource guide
Link to Laura Linney biography resource guide
Link to Aretha Franklin biography resource guide
Link to Martha Graham biography resource guide
Link to Maria Callas biography resource guide
Link to Eartha Kitt Resource Guide
Link to Patti Smith Resource Guide
Link to Josephine Baker Resource Guide
Link to Nina Simone Resource Guide
Link to Joanne Woodward Resource Guide
Link to Cicely Tyson Resource Guide
Link to Georgia O'Keeffe Resource Guide
Link to Bessie Smith Resource Guide
Link to Sister Rosetta Tharpe biography resource guide
Link to Misty Copeland Resource Guide
Link to Big Mama Thornton biography resource guide
Link to Frida Kahlo Resource Guide
Link to Rose O'Neill biography resource guide

 

Writing & Literature

Link to Toni Morrison Resource Guide
Link to Sylvia Plath Resource Guide
Link to Maya Angelou Resource Guide
Link to Emily Dickenson biography resource guide
Link to Helen Hoang Resource Guide
Link to Audre Lorde biography resource guide
Link to Jane Austen biography resource guide
Link to Shirley Jackson biography resource guide
Link to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Resource Guide
Link to Shonda Rhimes Resource Guide
Link to Zadie Smith biography resource guide
Link to Clare Boothe Luce biography resource guide

 

Yesteryear's Pioneers: Historical Figures

Link to The Real Pocahontas Resource Guide
Link to Joan of Arc Resource Guide
Link to Sally Hemings Resource Guide
Link to Tale of Genji history resource guide
Link to Boudicca Resource Guide
Link to Anna Komnene biography resource guide