Amelia Earhart: (1897-1937) Aviatrix. She was the first American woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. Amelia disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while trying to fly around the world.
http://www.ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html
Harriet Tubman: (1820?-1913) Few people could imagine that a poor black woman born into slavery could go on to become one of the best known figures of the nineteenth century, but that’s exactly what Harriet Tubman did become. She was an uunderground Railroad conductor leading over 300 slaves to freedom, army scout, and an African-American suffragette.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
Helen Keller: Hellen Keller overcame blindness and deafness, graduated from Radcliffe, gave many speeches on behalf of the physically handicapped, and wrote several books.
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkmuseum.asp
Clara Barton: (1821-1912) She was a Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm
Lucy Stone: (1818 – 1893) She was one of the first women in the United States to earn a college degree, graduating first in her class from Oberlin College in 1847. Lucy Stone organized the first national women’s rights convention.
http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/LucyStone.html
Susan B. Anthony: (1820 – 1906) formed the National Woman’s Suffrage Association, pioneer in the fight for Women’s Rights, and the first woman to have her picture on an American coin (silver dollar)
http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/biography.php
Sally Ride: Sally Ride was the first American woman to travel in space.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html
Louisa May Alcott: She was a seamstress, servant, teacher, Civil War nurse, and finally, author and novelist.
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/alco-lou.htm
Rosa Parks: Rosa Parks was an American civil rights leader, famous for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
http://www.biography.com/articles/Rosa-Parks-9433715
Marie Curie: (1867 – 1934) She was a famous scientist who won two Nobel prizes. Marie was famous for her work with her husband on radioactivity, discovered radium and polonium
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/