Famous Female Firsts
Jeannette Rankin: First woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
“ The first time the first woman had a chance to say NO against war she would say it”
She was founding Vice-President of the American Civil Liberties Union and a founding member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.American Civil Liberties Union Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Janet Guthrie is a race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500race car Indianapolis 500Daytona 500
Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel on 24 October 1901.Niagara Fallsbarrel24 October 1901
Niagara Falls
Annie preparing to leave shore with barrel
Annie returning to shore
Mary Lyon: Founded first American institute of higher education for women
Anne Bradstreet was the first published American female writer
To My Dear and Loving Husband ( Anne Bradstreet (Энн Брэдстрит)(1612 – 1672) If ever two were one then surely we If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere, That when we live no more we may live ever.
Diane Crump
Bessie Coleman: First African- American female pilot and first American to get an international pilot license
Bessie flew in her first air show on September 3, 1922, at Glenn Curtiss Field in Garden City, New York.
Ellen Swallow Richards: First woman admitted to MIT
She received a second bachelor's degree, a B.S. from MIT
Ellen and her husband Robert H. Richards
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell: First American female doctor
Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride: First American female astronaut
June 18, 1983
In 2001, Ride left Stanford to start her own company, Sally Ride Science, which creates science programs for young children
Antonia Coello Novello
Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General.
Novello entered the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health.
Victoria Woodhull: First female presidentia l candidate
Victoria Claflin Woodhull became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love and labor reforms.