She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either.
She was the youngest and first female American astronaut to have flown in space, as well as the third woman to fly in space.
Dubbed the 'Queen of All Media', she was the richest African-American of the 20th century, was once the world's only black billionaire, and the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
She is the third woman, first woman of color, and the first Hispanic and first Latina to serve on the US Supreme Court.
She was an American track and field athlete who set world records in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m races.
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
A pioneer of the civil rights movement, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
She is considered America's first major prima ballerina.
In 1952, she developed a 10-point score (named after herself) to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns.
A pioneer in a new type of investigative journalism, she is widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days.
She became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
She was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909, where she spoke in Yiddish and called for action.
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