Nydia M. Velázquez, the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress, is the Representative for New York’s 7th Congressional District.

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Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards African Americans, global warming, and women's rights.

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Olympia Snowe was the first woman in American history to serve in both houses of State Legislature and both houses of Congress.

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Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC.

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Oveta Culp Hobby served as the director of the Women’s Army Corps and first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

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Patsy Mink was the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Asian-American woman to serve in Congress.

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As a poet, writer, activist, organizer, legal theorist, and priest, Murray was directly involved in, and helped articulate, the intellectual foundations of two of the most important social justice movements of the twentieth century.

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Pearl S. Buck produced works of fiction and non-fiction throughout her lifetime, many of which focused on her experiences in China.

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Penelope Barker organized the Edenton Tea Party, the first recorded women’s political demonstration in America.

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Despite spending much of her life enslaved, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.

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Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative activist, commentator, and author, led a successful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.

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Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling English settlers survive.

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Prudence Crandall bravely defied prevailing patterns of racial discrimination when she opened one of the first schools for African American girls in Connecticut in 1833.

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Queen Lili‘uokalani was the last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

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Rachel Carson catalyzed the global environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring.

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Rachel Levine became the highest-ranking openly transgender government official in U.S. history when she was confirmed by the Senate as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health in March 2021.

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As a life-long Detroiter, and one of the first Muslim-Americans, as well as the first Palestinian-American woman, ever elected to the United States Congress, Tlaib advocates for issues that affect the working-class.

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This lesson plan aims to offer subsides on how to work with the genre biography reggarding to its characterization, comphreension and production. It also focus on listening activities and the proper use of verbs in the simple past.

Although it was very dangerous for African Americans to speak out against white people during the Jim Crow era, Recy Taylor refused to remain silent about sexual violence.

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