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 !!!
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