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2. Crystal Eastman was the female ____ who worked for equal rights and suffrage, co-founded the ACLU in 1910, and helped write the Equal Rights Amendment.

7. Barbara Mikulski is the longest-serving United States ____, elected in 1968.

13. What former slave was a powerful speaker for the rights of women and black people?

14. Who was the first black woman lawyer in the United States and the first woman admitted to District of Columbia bar in 1872?

15. What sport did Martina Navratilova win 56 Grand Slam competition events and 9 Wimbledon women’s singles titles?

16. Which position was Geraldine Ferraro the first woman candidate for on a major political party ticket in 1984?

18. Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for this elected position of the United States in 1872.

20. Who was the Shoshone Indian woman who served as guide and interpreter on the Lewis & Clark expedition1?

21. Anne Bradstreet was the first American woman ____ whose work was published in London in 1650.

22. Susan B. Anthony was arrested and convicted of attempting to do this in 1872.

23. Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice? Down

1. What woman ran for president on the National Equal Rights Party, receiving 4149 votes in 6 states in 1884?

3. Annie Dodge Wauneka was the first Native American to receive the Presidential Medal of ____ in 1963 for work in decreasing Infant mortality decreasing tuberculosis.

4. Elizabeth Blackwell became the first licensed ____ in the US

5. Betty Friedan wrote “The ____ Mystique” in 1968 and became a leading figure in the Women’s Movement.

6. Judy Garland is the first female artist to win a Grammy for ____ of the Year.

8. Louise Bogan was the fourth poet ____ appointed to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title.

9. Maria Goeppert Mayer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in ____ in 1963 after she discovered the structure of atoms.

10. Donaldina Cameron is credited with helping free more than 2000 Chinese women and children smuggled into which California city lo be sold as slaves.

11. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to ____.

12. Madeleine Albright was the first female Secretary of ____ of the US, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.

17. Harriet Tubman served as a “conductor” on the Underground ____, freeing hundreds of southern slaves and leading them to safety in the North.

19. Queen Liliuokalani was the queen of which nation before it became a part of the US?