Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai

Kenyan Environmental Activist. First Black African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Founded the Green Belt Movement, which planted over 45 million trees.
Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

Politician, educator, and author who in 1968 became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress.
Maria Montessori.

Maria Montessori.

Italian educator, physician, scientist. The “Montessori system” is based on belief in the creative potential of children

Junko Tabei

Junko Tabei

Japanese mountaineer. First women to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. First woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent. 2T-14.
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

The first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize wrote some of the most important novels of the twentieth century.

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