Elizabeth Blackwell
First American woman awarded a medical degree by a college. Attended Geneva College in New York after she was rejected by all the major medical schools in the nation because of her sex. Elizabeth Blackwell later founded a women’s medical college to train other women physicians.
Clara Barton
Clara Barton got involved with tending the needy when she treated injured Union soldiers on the battlefield during the Civil War. She later was the founder and first president of the American Red Cross.
Susan B. Anthony
The 19th century women’s movement’s most powerful organizer.
Louisa May Alcott
Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century.
Pearl S. Buck
With her novels about American and Asian culture, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
