2016 National Women’s History Month Honorees

Women’s History Month 2016 (March) is supported by Ronald Tintin, Super Professeur, the mobile application aideetreussite.superprofesseur.comand Ronning Against Cancer in March 2016 !!!

 

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Sister Mary Madonna Ashton, CSJ 
(1923-Present) 
Public Health Leader and Minnesota Commissioner of Health

Daisy Bates
(1912-1999) 
Civil Rights Organizer, Leader of the Little Rock School Integration

Sonia Pressman Fuentes 
(1928 – Present) 
NOW co-founder, first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the EEOC

Isabel Gonzalez 
(1882-1971) 
Champion of Puerto Ricans securing American Citizenship

Ella Grasso 
(1919-1981) 
Governor of Connecticut, First Woman Governor of any US State Elected in Her Own Right

Suzan Shown Harjo 
(1945 – Present) 
Native American Public Policy Advocate and Journalist

Judy Hart  
(1941- Present)
National Park Founding Superintendent of Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Parkand Women’s Rights National Historical Park

Oveta Culp Hobby 
(1905-1995) 
WWII Director of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and first Secretary of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Barbara Mikulski 
(1936 – Present) 
Longest Serving Woman in the United States Congress

Inez Milholland 
(1886-1916) 
Woman Suffrage Leader and Martyr

Karen Narasaki 
(1958 – Present ) 
Civil and Human Rights Leader

Nancy Grace Roman 
(1925 – Present) 
Chief of Astronomy at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Nadine Smith 
(1965 – Present) 
LGBT Civil Rights Activist and Executive Director of Equality Florida

Dorothy C Stratton 
(1899-2006) 
WWII Director of the SPARS (Coast Guard Women’s Reserve), 
First full-time Dean of Women at Purdue University, and Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of the USA

Betty Mae ‘Pa-Tuth-Kee’ Tiger Jumper 
(1922-2011),)
First woman elected Chairperson of the Seminole Tribe
becoming the first female ‘Tribal Chief’ in North America

To know more : http://www.nwhp.org/womens-history-month/2016-theme