Contents : Pocahontas -- Abigail Adams -- Sacagawea -- Sojourner Truth -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Susan B. Anthony -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Clara Barton -- Harriet Tubman -- Emily Dickinson -- Louisa May Alcott -- Jane Addams -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Nellie Bly -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Helen Keller -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Amelia Earhart -- Margaret Mead -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Rachel Carson -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- Lucille Ball -- Julia Child -- Rosa Parks -- Barbara Mcclintock -- Gertrude Elion -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Nancy Reagan -- Maria Tallchief -- Barbara Bush -- Coretta Scott King -- Patsy Takemoto Mink -- Maya Angelou -- Harper Lee -- Barbara Walters -- Dian Fossey -- Gloria Steinem -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Sally Ride -- Oprah Winfrey -- Sonia Sotomayor -- Condoleezza Rice -- Ann Bancroft -- Maya Lin -- Michelle Obama -- Serena Williams -- Misty Copeland
Summary:
omen have always played an important role in the history of the United States. But before they were women, they were regular girls just like anyone else. So how did these seemingly ordinary girls grow up to be such extradorinary women?
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