Thread by @f_francavilla

ELIZABETH BESSIE COLEMAN
First African American female pilot and First African American holder of an international pilot license #WomensHistoryMonth #Day1

MAE C. JEMISON
First African-American female astronaut & First African-American woman in space. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day2

MAYA ANGELOU
Actor, writer, director, producer, author, poet, and civil rights activist. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day3

HATTIE McDANIEL
Actress, Radio Performer, First African American to win an Oscar in 1940. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day4

NICHELLE NICHOLS
As Lt UHURA, Nichelle was one the very first African American women to star on a tv show in a lead role. Actress, Singer, Civil and Human Rights advocate. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day5

JOSEPHINE BAKER
“Surely the day will come when colour means nothing more than the skin tone, when all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood”.
Dancer, Singer, WW2 Hero, Civil Rights Activist, First African American Superstar #WomensHistoryMonth #Day6

MARY JANE PATTERSON
Born into slavery, Mary Jane Patterson is the first African-American woman in U.S. to receive a B.A degree in 1862. She was also a pioneer in black education and was the inspiration and the lead for other black female educators. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day7

INTERNATIONAL WOMAN's DAY
#InternationalWomansDay #WomensHistoryMonth #Day8

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famous defender of women's rights, and radical philosopher William Godwin, Mary Shelley ascended to the Pantheon of legendary horror writers with Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) #WomensHistoryMonth #Day9

JUNE JORDAN
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Writer, Poet, Bisexual, LGBT and Civil Rights Activist, Feminist. #BiHealthMonth #BHAM #WomensHistoryMonth #Day10

AMELIA EARHART
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
American aviation pioneer and author, Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day11

ANGELA DAVIS
"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
Civil Rights, Political, and Social Activist, Educator, Author. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day12

URSULA LE GUIN
"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."
One of the greatest science fiction writers ever, winner of multiple Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award #WomensHistoryMonth #Day13

ALICE WALKER
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Bi, Novelist, Writer, Poet, Activist, Pulitzer Prize Winner for THE COLOR PURPLE #BiHealthMonth #BHAM #WomensHistoryMonth #Day14

STAGECOACH MARY FIELDS
Gun-totin’, Badass, First Black Woman hired by US Postal Service (1895). At 60yrs old, Mary proved herself the fastest applicant to hitch a team of 6 horses & was hired. Living proof of “be so darn good that they can’t ignore you” #WomensHistoryMonth #Day15

ELLA FITZGERALD
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, First African-American woman to win a Grammy Award #WomensHistoryMonth #Day16

MARIE CURIE
Physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. #WomensHistoryMonth #Day17

SOPHIA LOREN
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love."
Screen legend, singer, international icon! First performer to win an Oscar for a foreign-language role #WomensHistoryMonth #Day18