In Febrary, we're celebrating the birthdays of the following women trailblazers and leaders:
Ayn Rand, Russian-American author and philosopher (February 2)
Gertrude Stein, writer and poet (February 3)
Helen Stephens, athlete and Olympian (February 3)
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist whose bus boycott led to nationwide civil rights protests and attempts to end racial segregation (February 4)
Betty Friedan, author whose novel The Feminine Mystique is widely credited with beginning second wave feminism in the United States (February 4)
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author most famous for her Little House on the Prairie series (February 7)
Kate Chopin, author who wrote The Awakening (February 8)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman to earn a medical degree and become a doctor of medicine in the United States (February 8)
Grace Towns, who was the first Black woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly (February 10)
Sarah Palin, first woman to be elected governor of Alaska and first Republican female vice presidential nominee (February 11)
Lydia Child, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and Native American rights activist (February 11)
Harriet Ann Jacobs, writer who escaped slavery (February 13)
Susan B. Anthony, suffragist (February 15)
Audre Lorde, writer who was a feminist and suffragist (February 18)
Angelina Grimke, abolitionist, suffragist, and sister to Sarah Moore Grimke (February 20)
Nina Simone, singer and civil rights activist (February 21)
Elizabeth Taylor, actress (February 27)
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