Deborah Sampson (1760-1827)
Mary Hays McCauly (Molly Pitcher) (1754-1832)
Martha Washington (1731-1802)
Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849)
Sacagawea (1790-1884?)
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914)
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses) (1860-1926)
Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary) (1852-1903)
Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Nellie Bly (1867-1922)
Ida B. Wells (Barnett) (1862-1931)
Ida Tarbell (1857-1944)
Margaret Tobin (Maggie or "Molly") Brown (1867-1932)
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1872-1961)
Bessie Coleman (1893-1926)
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
Leontyne Price (1927-)
Margaret Bourke-White (1906-1971)
Jacqueline Cochran (1910-1980)
Virginia Hall (1906-1982)
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma Moses) (1860-1961)
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Dolores Huerta (1930-)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)
Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson (1912-2007)
Shirley Temple Black (1928-)
Sally Ride (1951-)
Madeleine Albright (1937-)
Carol Burnett (1933-)
Oprah Winfrey (1954-)
Sandra Day O'Connor (1930-)
Dr. Mae C. Jemison (1956-)
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-)
Loretta Lynn (1935-)
Barbara Walters (1929-)
Condoleezza Rice (1954-)
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Whose tale is true? : readers theatre to introduce and research 49 amazing American women by Nancy Polette. ISBN 9781591587620. Published by Teacher Ideas in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
