In 1955, this African American living in Montgomery, Alabama, challenged the race segregation that existed in parts of the US by refusing to give up her seat on a bus so that a white person could sit down.
Rosa Parks
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This woman discovered radium. She was a scientist. She was from Poland and studied in France.
Marie Curie
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She is a teenager. She is from Sweden. She fights for the environment.
Greta Thunberg
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She lived in Amsterdam. She wrote a famous diary.
Anne Frank
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She is an activist for girls' right to education. She won the Peace Nobel Prize.
Malala Yousafzai
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She was a famous painter. She was Mexican.
Frida Kahlo
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She is considered the first great Latin American poet and one of the most important Hispanic literary figures. She was persecuted for being an intellectual and a woman, a nun, and a writer
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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She was a warrior. She was from France.
Juana de Arco
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She wrote and sang about an upside world and a famous tortoise from Pehuajó.
María Elena Walsh
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She was a guerrilla military leader from Chuquisaca. She fought for the Alto Perú Independence
Juana Azurduy
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She is an English actress, model and activist. She was born on April 15, 1990. She gained prominence playing "The brightest witch of her age", in a series of films based on a successful series of books about a wizard boy.
Emma Watson
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She loved flying. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart
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She wrote many books about romantic fiction in England. Her female characters are famous for defying the traditional role of women in that time.
Jane Austen
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She was the first to vote. She was an Italian Argentine doctor. She was an activist for women's rights in Argentina