Famous American Women

Pocahontas

Jun 1, 1608

Captain John Smith, one of the leaders of the English Settlement at Jamestown in Virginia, was captured by Native A. According to a book he wrote in years later,he was about to be clubbed to death. But then Pocahontas, "the king's dearest daughter...got his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death.

Molly Pitcher

Jun 28, 1778

During the Battle of Monmouth her husband collaosed of heat-stroke and she took his place as a member of the gun crew and helped fire the cannon.

Sacagawea

Jun 1, 1805

In 1805, a Shoshone woman name Sacagawea helped the Lewis and Clark expedition cross the uncharted Western Wilderness from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. As the expedition's chief guide and interpreter, she was largely responsible for the explorers' safe, passage through Indian territory.

Sojourner Truth

Jun 1, 1843

Isabella (which was her real name) came to believe that God wanted her to "travel up and down the land" preaching her word that slavery should no longer exist ing New York.

Harriet Tubman

Jun 1, 1849

Harriet Tubman's two sisters were sold. She was a slave. She herself was brutally beaten. In 1849. she escaped slavery and made her way to Philidelphia.

Susan B. Anthony

Jun 1, 1920

Until the 19th Ammendment to the U.S, Constitution became a law in 1920, American Women were not allowed to vote. Susan B. Anthony's 50-year fight for women's suffrage, or the right to vote, made this Ammendment possible.

Amelia Earhart

Jul 2, 1937

Amelia Earhart said "Gas is low," on the radio message while she was attending the round-the-world flight. On July 2, 1937, she said she was continuing on course. But that was the last the world heard from her. Amelia Earhart dissapeared.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1995

In Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.