March is Women's History Month. Women's History Month was established to celebrate the often overlooked contributions that women have made to history. March officially became Women's History Month in 1987. On this page, you will find links to individual women as well as general women's history sites.

Individual Women of History--Past & Present

 
  • Susan B. Anthony - Writer, Feminist, Suffragist
  • Jane Austen - British Novelist
  • Aphra Behn - British Novelist & Playwright
  • Senator Carol Moseley-Braun - First African American Woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate

  • Josephine Baker - Stage Star
  • Barbara Bush -First Lady, Writer
  • Rachel Carson - Author of Silent Spring, Environmentalist
  • Willa Cather - Novelist
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton - First Lady, Writer, Lawyer
  • Bessie Coleman - Aviator
  • Marie Curie - Chemist and Physicist
  • Bette Davis - Movie Actress

  • Emily Dickenson - Poet
  • Amelia Earhart - Aviator
  • Queen Elizabeth I - English Queen
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Jazz Singer
  • Anne Frank - Author of The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Writer, Social Activist
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme Court Justice
  • Kate Gleason - First Female U.S. Bank President
  • Virginia Hamilton - Author (Children/Young Adult)
  • Billie Holiday - Jazz Singer
  • Dolores Huerta - Labor Leader, Social Activist
  • Zora Neale Hurston - Novelist, Folklorist

  • Shirley Ann Jackson - Physicist
  • Mae Jemison - Astronaut
  • Barbara Jordan - Served in the U.S. Congress (TX), Civil Rights Activist
  • Frida Kahlo - Artist
  • Helen Keller - Writer, Social Activist
  • Billie Jean King - Professional Tennis Player
  • Audre Lorde - Poet, Essayist, Activist
  • Mary Lyon - Educator, Founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
  • Wilma Mankiller - Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

  • Toni Morrison - Novelist, Editor, Teacher
  • Rigoberta Menchu - Guatemalan Activist, Writer, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Florence Nightingale - British Nurse, Hospital Reformer, Humanitarian
  • Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist
  • Sally Ride - First Woman in Space
  • Wilma Rudolph - Olympian-Track and Field
  • Huda Shaarawi - Egyptian Educator & Women's Rights Activist
  • Lyn St. James - Indy Car Racer
  • Amy Tan - Novelist
  • Harriet Tubman - Conductor on the Underground Railroad
  • Hildegard von Bingen - Composer, Writer, Healer
  • Alice Walker - Poet, Novelist, Activist
  • Madame C.J. Walker - Entrepreneur, Cosmetics Manufacturer
  • Virginia Woolf - Writer, Lecturer, Women's Rights Activist

    • Links to Women's History Sites

    4000 Years of Women in Science
    African American Women in the Sciences
    Biography of Suffragists
    A Celebration of Women Writers
    Civil War Women Archive
    Distinguished Women of Past & Present
    History of the Suffrage Movement
    National Women's History Project
    Early Women Composers    		 Women in Military History
    Gale Celebrates Women's History
    Past Notable Women of Computing and Mathematics
    Encyclopedia of Women's History
    Profiles of Chicanas and Latinas
    International Women's Air & Space Museum
    The Women's Memorial Project to Honor Military Women
    Timeline for Woman Suffrage 1848 to Present
    Women Artists Archive
    Women in Politics-Past & Present
    The Lakewood Library Catalog of books and audio-visual materials.
     

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    All quotes are from The Quotable Woman Running Press, 1991.
    Images created with Kidpix Studio, Broderbund Software, Inc.

    Lakewood Public Library--Madison Branch 2/26/96