Notable womxn word search and answer key
About the distinguished womxn:
Malala Yousafzai: As a Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai advocates for girls’ education in Pakistan and around the world. She became the youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize at 17 years old.
Michelle Obama: Michelle Obama is an American attorney and author who became the first African-American woman to serve as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to Barack Obama.
Rosa Parks: As an American activist in the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks is best known for the pivotal role she played in the Montgomery bus boycott. She is honored as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement” by the United States Congress.
Harriet Tubman: After escaping slavery, Harriet Tubman became an American abolitionist and social activist. Tubman made 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people through the Underground Railroad, a network of antislavery activists and safe houses.
Susan B. Anthony: Susan B. Anthony became a notable leader of the 1920’s women’s suffrage movement and a social reformer with her work for the 1920 Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
Lucy Stone: In 1847, Lucy Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. With an education, Stone became an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who spoke out for women’s rights and against slavery.
Dorothy Gilliam: Dorothy Gilliam is an American journalist and the first African-American female reporter at The Washington Post. Gilliam was also the former president of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Greta Thunberg: Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is a strong advocate for addressing the issue of climate change and is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action to diminish the effects of human-caused climate change. At age 15, Thunberg started the first “School Strike for Climate” outside the Swedish parliament.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Serving as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1993 to her death in 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg fiercely advocated for gender equality and women’s rights. In the United States v. Virginia case, Ginsburg wrote the court’s ruling that qualified women could not be denied admission to the Virginia Military Institute.
