This month, we're celebrating the following women trailblazers and leaders:
Yvonne B. Miller, educator and politician and the first Black woman to serve in the Virginia House and then both houses of the Virginia General Assembly (July 4)
Jessie Ackermann, women's rights activist and writer (July 4)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer and "computer" who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars (July 4)
Edmonia Lewis, sculptor and the first professional Black-Native American sculptor (July 4)
Margaret Walker, poet and writer whose award-winning poetry collection For My People made her the first Black woman to receive a national writing prize (July 7)
June Jordan, writer who was inducted on the Stonewall National Monument National LGBTQ Wall of Honor in 2019 (July 9)
Mildred Benson, journalist and children's books author who helped ghostwrite the Nancy Drew series (July 10)
Tillie Ehrlich-Weisberg Lewis, entrepreneur and the Associated Press' 1951 "Businesswoman of the Year" (July 13)
Ida B. Wells, investigative journalist, civil rights activist, and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (July 16)
Margaret Brown, philanthropist (July 18)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, medical physicist who became the second woman, and the first American woman, to win the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (July 19)
Emma Lazarus, writer whose poem "The New Colossus" is inscribed onto the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty (July 22)
Vera Rubin, astronomer whose work provided evidence for the existence of dark matter (July 23)
Amelia Earhart, aviator who was the first woman aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (July 24)
Bella Abzug, lawyer and politician who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives (July 24)
Lucy Burns, suffragist and women's rights advocate who co-founded the National Woman's Party and was arrested and sent to the Occoquan Workhouse as part of the Silent Sentinels in 1917 (July 28)
Mary Vaux Walcott, artist (July 31)
Stephanie Kwolek, chemist who invented Kevlar (July 31)