Ephron, Nora, 380
Equal Pay Act (1963), 211
Equal Rights Amendment, 30–31, 173, 175, 332–33, 423–24
Ernman, Malena, 125
Escobar, Pablo, 311
Esenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich, 20, 21
Espinosa, Patricia, 125–26
Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act, 77
Evers, Medgar, 268, 383
Evers-Williams, Myrlie, 268
Faubus, Orval, 79–80
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 376
Felix, Allyson, 438
Ferraro, Geraldine, 337, 344–46, 344
Ferrera, America, 317–20, 317
Figueres, Christiana, 125–26
Finer, Jonathan, 301
First Amendment, 404
Flint, Michigan, drinking water, 191–94
Flynn, Michael, 405
Ford, Betty, 173–75, 173
Ford, Gerald, 174
Fossey, Dian, 112–13
Foudy, Julie, 212
Frank, Anne (Annelies Marie), 43–45, 43
Franklin, Aretha, “Respect,” 361
Freedom of Information Act, 332
Freedom Riders (1960s), 297, 383
Friedan, Betty, 8–9, 211, 333
Fugitive Slave Act, 14
Fulton, Sybrina, 292
Galdikas, Biruté, 112–13
Gandhi, Mahatma (Mohandas K.), 37
Ganguly, Kadambini, 172
Gay, Roxane, 9
Gbowee, Leymah, 275, 277–79, 358
George III, king of England, 130
Gies, Miep, 44
Giffords, Gabby, 287, 287, 288–89, 293, 295
Gillard, Julia, x
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, x
Girl Scouts/Girl Guides, 61–64, 409
Girls Who Code, 409
Glaser, Elizabeth, 178
Global Eradication of Polio Initiative, 197
Goldwater, Barry, 33
González, Emma, 300, 302–3
Goodall, Jane, 109–10, 109
Good Friday Agreement (1998), 275, 276
Goucher, Kara, 438
Gould, Stephen Jay, 111
Graham, Katharine, 378–80, 378
Graham, Martha, 174
Graham, Philip, 379, 380
Grandin, Temple, 392–94, 392
Grant, Ulysses S., 245
Great Depression, 34, 36, 37, 73, 254, 339, 375
Green, Edith, 82, 86
Green, Ernest, 81, 91
Green Belt Movement, 114, 115–16, 117–18
Greer, Germaine, 211
Grimké, Angelina, 417
Grimké, Sarah, 417
Guttenberg, Fred, 297
Guttenberg, Jaime, 297
Haddonfield Fortnightly, 60
Hall, Ruby Bridges, 89–91, 89
Hamer, Fannie Lou, 333
Hamilton, Alexander, 349
Hanna-Attisha, Mona, 191, 192–94
Harjo, Joy, xii
Harper, Frances E. W., 419
Harrison, Benjamin, 419
Hatshepsut (pharaoh), 7
Haughey, Sharon, 276–77
Heldman, Gladys, 211
Height, Dorothy, xi, 243–44, 243, 246
Heldman, Gladys, 211
Heller, Becca, 300–302, 300
Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act (2001), 346
Henry, Barbara, 90
Herschel, Caroline, 129–31, 129, 132
Herschel, Isaac, 129
Herschel, William, 130
Himmler, Heinrich, 41
Hitler, Adolf, 41, 43, 67
HIV/AIDS, 178, 179, 186–87, 322
Holtzman, Elizabeth, 348
Hope Village, Somalia, 183, 184
Hopper, Grace, 133, 134, 135
Hoxie, Walter John, 63
Huerta, Dolores, 271–74, 271
Huffman, Sarah, 217
Hu Jintao, 181
Hussein, Saddam, 193
Hutchinson, Asa, 81
Isle, Anna, 129
Indian Citizenship Act (1924), 257
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), 236–37, 238
International Red Cross, 168
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), 301–2
Irish Congress of Trade Unions, 276
Iroquois Confederacy, 417
ISIS (Islamic State), 435–36
Jacobs, Jane, 104–6, 104, 107–8
James, William, 250
Japanese Americans, in wartime internment camps, 93
Jeffrey, Mildred, 333
Jemison, Mae, 157–59, 157
Joan of Arc, 7–8, 24
Johnson, Lyndon B., 81, 85, 244, 348, 384
Johnson, Virginia, 18, 22–23
Johnstone Bekink, Mattie, 45
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, 144–45
Joliot-Curie, Irène, 140, 142, 144–45
Jordan, Barbara, 347, 348–50
Joyner, Al, 50
Joyner, Florence “FloJo” Griffith, 50, 51, 204
Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, 50–52, 50, 204
Kahlo, Frida, xi
Kaplan, Roberta “Robbie,” 386, 388
Karman, Tawakkol, 275, 278–79
Kasen, Judith, 387
Kassebaum, Nancy, 354
Kaur, Jind, 426
Keller, Father James, 67
Keller, Helen, 24–28, 24
Kelley, Virginia (Grandma Ginger), 3, 11, 178
Kelly, Mark, 289
Kendrick, Pearl, 197
Kennedy, John F., 45, 102, 211, 268
Kennedy, Robert F., 273, 347
Kersee, Bob, 51
Khepra, Nza-Ari, 294, 295–96
Kies, Mary, 137
King, Bernice, 269
King, Billie Jean, 209–12, 209
King, Coretta Scott, 266–70, 266
King, Elizabeth, 5
King, Gayle, 6
King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 23, 80–81, 115, 244, 262, 267–69, 348, 383, 400
Knight, Margaret E., 136–37, 139, 256
Kramer, Larry, 178
Krim, Mathilde, 176–78, 176
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 72, 74, 79, 254, 260, 262
Kwan, Michelle, 218–21, 218
Ladies’ Climbing Club (Joshi-Tohan), 206
Lamarr, Hedy, 146–48, 146
Lawick, Hugo van, 111
Laye, Camara, 315
League of Women Voters, 423
Leakey, Louis, 110, 112, 113
Lee, Sheila Jackson, 244
L’Engle, Madeleine, 11
Leslie, Lisa, 87
Levy, Ariel, 235–36
Lewis, Sarah, 194
Liberian Civil War, First (1989), 277
Lin, Maya, 399–401, 399
Lincoln, Abraham, 168, 382
Lipinski, Tara, 220
Little Rock Nine, 80, 81, 91, 383
Lobo, Rebecca, 87–88
Lovelace, Ada, 133–34, 133, 135
Low, Juliette Gordon, 61–64, 61
Lowe, Betty, 10
Lowe, Katherine, x
Luce, Henry, 36
Lundestad, Geir, 48
Lynch, Loretta, 404
Maathai, Wangari, 114–18, 114
Mathai, Wanjira, 117, 118
Mabus, Ray, 156
Maguire, Máiread, 275
Malcolm X, 268
Mandela, Nelson, 45, 238, 280, 281
Mankiller, Wilma, 360–63, 360
March for Our Lives, 297, 298
March on Washington (1963), 264
Marcolla, Farah, 302
Maroney, McKayla, 240
Márquez-Greene, Ana Grace, 289, 290
Márquez-Greene, Nelba, 287, 287, 289–91, 293
Marshall, Thurgood, 383
Martin, Trayvon, 292
Martinez, Esther, 75–77, 75
Mathias, Charles, 352
Matolengwe, Patricia, 282
Mayer, Louis B., 147
McBath, Lucy, 287, 287, 292–93
McCartan, Joyce, 275, 276
McCarthy, Joseph, 31–32, 105, 332
McCloud, Patsy, 70
McCloud, Samuel, 70
McConnell, Mitch, 270
McCormack, Inez, 276
McDowell, Calvin, 249
McFadden, Deborah, 31–33
McFadden, Hannah, 33–34
McFadden, Tatyana, 231–34, 231
McGovern, George, 337, 348
McKinnon, Kate, 398
McLeod, Patsy and Samuel, 70–71
McWilliams, Monica, 275, 276
Melching, Molly, 188, 189–90
Melching, Zoe, 189
Menchú Tum, Rigoberta, 46–49, 46
Meredith, James, 383
Mertz, Barbara (Elizabeth Peters), 8
Mikulski, Barbara, 351–55, 351
Milholland, Inez, 247, 421
Mink, Patsy, 82, 83–85, 86
Mitchell, Arthur, 23
Mitchell, Mrs. (teacher), 10–11
Mohamed, Amina, 184
Mohamed, Deqo, 184
Moi, Daniel arap, 116
Moku, Elizabeth, x
Molloy, Parker, 237
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, 291, 299
Mondale, Walter, 336
Montaño, Alysia, 438
Montessori, Maria, 65–67, 65, 69
Moss, Thomas, 249, 419
Mothers of the Movement, 292
Motley, Constance Baker, 381–84, 381
Mowlam, Mo, 276
Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 227–30, 227
Mukwege, Denis, 437
Murad, Nadia, 435–37, 435
MuslimGirl, 324–26
Muslim Women’s Day, 326
Mxenge, Griffiths, 281, 282
Mxenge, Victoria, 280, 281–82
Nalle, Charles, 18–19
Nassar, Larry, 240
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 152–56, 157–59
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), 420, 421, 423
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 27, 73, 79, 138, 249, 250, 260, 261, 264, 382, 383, 384
National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 73, 419
National Council of Negro Women, 74
National Domestic Workers Alliance, 283, 285
National Industry Recovery Act, 376
National Rifle Association (NRA), 289, 291, 292, 297
National Woman’s Party (NWP), 421
National Women’s Political Caucus, 333
Native Americans, wartime relocation of, 257
Native American voting rights, 417
Negley, Keith, 172
Nightingale, Florence, 163–65, 163
Nineteenth Amendment, 73, 346, 416–17, 421–24
Nixon, Richard M., 86, 332, 336, 347, 349–50, 378
No Es Hora De Callar (Now Is Not the Time to Be Silent), 311, 312
Northern Ireland Troubles, 275–77
Nyad, Diana, 213–14, 213
Obama, Barack, 93, 116, 220, 273, 295, 398, 403, 404
Obama, Michelle, 312
Obergefell, Jim, 387
Ochoa, Ellen, 159
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 6
Ohanian, Alexis Olympia Jr., 224
O’Keeffe, Georgia, xi
O’Shaughnessy, Bridget, 232
Oliver, Mary, 387
O’Shaughnessy, Tam, 156
Pankhurst, Christabel, 420
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 420, 426
Pape, Nina Anderson, 62
Paralympic Games, 232–34
Parkland, Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, 125, 292, 296–97, 299
Parks, Raymond, 260, 264
Parks, Rosa, 245, 259–65, 259
Paul, Alice, 248, 420–22, 423–24
Pavlova, Anna, 18–19, 18, 20–21, 22
Paycheck Fairness Act, 354
Peacemakers, the, 275–79, 275
Pelosi, Nancy, 439
Pendleton, Hadiya, 295
Pentagon Papers, 378–79
Peratrovich, Elizabeth, 256–58, 256
Peratrovich, Roy, Jr., 257, 258
Perey, Marguerite, 143
Perkins, Frances, 373–77, 373
Pinochet, Augusto, 364, 365, 366
Planned Parenthood, 342–43
Pomeroy, Claire, 196
Poo, Ai-jen, 283–86, 283
Price, Yetunde, 224
Project Orange Tree, 295–96
Quintero, Adrianna, 108
Raisman, Aly, 239–40, 239
Rapinoe, Megan, 216
Raseboya, Violet, 237
Reagan, Ronald, 40–41, 288, 353
Reiss, Fraidy, 429–31, 429
Richards, Ann, 339–43, 339, 349
Richards, Cecile, 342–43
Ride, Sally, x, 152, 153–56, 157, 158, 159
Riggs, Bobby, 209–13
Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation, 48
Riley, Millie, 78
Ríos Montt, Efraín, 48
Roberts, Robin, 64
Robinson, Mary, 276
Rockwell, Norman, 90
Rodham, Dorothy (Grandma Dorothy), 3, 3, 4, 6, 8, 117, 146, 204, 285, 393
Roem, Danica, 368–70, 368
Roe v. Wade, 175, 340
Romée, Isabelle, 8
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 45, 244, 251–55, 251, 263
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 73, 83, 252–53, 254, 374, 375–77
Roosevelt, Theodore, 252, 421–22
Rowling, J. K., 223
Royal Astronomical Society, 130–31, 132
Rubin, Vera, 129, 131–32
Ruby Bridges Foundation, 91
Rudolph, Eric, 403
Rudolph, Wilma, 201, 203–4
Run for Something, 369–70
Russell, Kathy, 418
Rushin, Steve, 87–88
Ryan, April, xii
Sagar, Pearl, 276
Salzner, Henry, 250
Sandler, Bernice “Bunny,” 82, 85–86
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut, 289–90, 291, 293
Saujani, Reshma, 407, 408–9
Savitskaya, Svetlana, 154
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), 268
Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), 281, 389–91
Semenya, Caster, 235–38, 235
September 11, 2001, attacks on U.S., 324, 325
Sesame Street, 59, 68–69
Sessions, Jeff, 270, 403
Shackelford, Lottie, 9
Shattuck, Allen, 257–58
Shepard, Peggy, 104, 106–108
Sheppard, Kate, 413
Shriver, Eunice, 221
Singh, Sophia Duleep, 425–28, 425
Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, 278–79, 356–59, 356
Skłodowska, Maria (Curie), 140
Smith, Al, 375
Smith, Clyde Harold, 30
Smith, Edmund Kirby, 74
Smith, Margaret Chase, 29–33, 29
Smith, Orlee and Susie, 79
Social Security, 373, 375, 376, 377
SolarPuff, 121–22
Sotomayor, Sonia, 6
Souvestre, Marie, 252
Special Olympics International, 220–21
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), 336–37
Speirs, Randall, 76
Spoor, Julia, 294, 299
Sputnik, 152
Spyer, Thea, 386, 388
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 239, 416
Starr, Brenda (fict.), 5
Steinem, Gloria, xii, 9, 274, 333, 380
STEM education, 134–35, 155, 407, 409
Stewart, Will, 249
Stoll, David, 48
Stroker, Ali, 321–23, 321
Students Demand Action, 299
Suffragists, 413–15, 416–24, 416, 425–28
Sullivan, Ann
e, 25–26
Supermajority, 286
Swoopes, Sheryl, 87
Tabei, Junko, 199–202, 199
Tallchief, Maria, 18, 21–22, 23
Taylor, Charles, 357, 358
Taylor, John, 202
Tektite I and II, 150
Temple, Mary (Temple Grandin), 392–94, 392
Tereshkova, Valentina, 154
Terrell, Mary Church, 419–20
Terrell, Robert Heberton, 419
Tewa culture, 75–77
Thomas, Clarence, 264
Thunberg, Greta, 123–26, 123
Thunberg, Svante, 125
Thurmond, Strom, 270
Till, Emmett, 262
TIME’S UP, 320
Title IX, 83, 85, 86–88, 210, 332, 337
Tostan, Senegal, 189–90
Treneer, Maurice, 147
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 374
“Trimates,” 112–13
Truman, Harry S., 202, 253, 377
Trump, Donald, 325, 402–5
Truth, Sojourner (Isabella Baumfree), 16, 243, 244–46, 261
Tsering, Ang, 207
Tubman, Harriet (Araminta Ross), 12–17, 12, 261, 419
Tucker, C. Delores, 244
Turner, Ellis, 139, 256
Tutu, Bishop Desmond, 280
Tyson, Cicely, 74, 246
Uhlenbeck, Karen Keskulla, 135
Unchained At Last, 429
Underground Railroad, 15, 17
United Farm Workers Union (UFW), 272, 273, 274
United Nations (UN), 74, 125, 253–54, 367
United Negro College Fund, 74
United States v. Windsor, 386
Uranus (planet), discovery of, 130
U.S. National Fencing Team, 228–29, 230
U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, 87, 215, 216, 217
Vaccinators, the, 195–98, 195
Van Gieson, Hilda, x
Victoria, queen of England, 425, 427
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 399–400
Vital Voices, 181
von Trapp, Maria, 39–42, 39
von Trapp, Maria (stepdaughter), 42
Voting Rights Act, 260, 348
Voto Latino, 319
Wadler, Naomi, 294, 297–98
Wagner, Sally Roesch, 423
Walker, Charles Joseph, 138
Walker, Madam C. J. (Sarah Breedlove), 136, 137–39, 256
Walker, Mary Edwards, 169, 171–72
Walters, Barbara, 64
Wambach, Abby, 215–17, 215
Warren, Elizabeth, 270
Washington, Booker T., 260, 418
Washington, George, 349
Watts, Shannon, 287, 287, 291, 292, 293
WE ACT, 107
Weber, Max, 250
Weddington, Sarah, 340
Weems, Carrie Mae, xi
Weindruch, Elizabeth Fleming, 4, 10, 40, 87
Weiss, Elaine, 423
Wells, Ida B., 73, 247–50, 247, 419, 421
“We Shall Overcome,” 391
What Is Missing? (virtual memorial), 401