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DIRECTIONS: Neglected for years, the historical contributions of women are celebrated during March, the official National Women's History Month. Supplement your textbooks with the other half of history -- the achievements of women -- by posing a question about women's history during every school day of the month!
| March 1 | Rosa Parks How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last? http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html |
| March 2 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee How many Olympic medals did she earn? http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016055.html |
| March 5 | Sacajawea What famous team of explorers did she travel with? http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html |
| March 6 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony What prominent organization was led by these two women? http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/women/suffrage.html |
| March 7 | Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright What jobs did these women hold during Bill Clinton's presidency? http://www.wic.org/bio/jreno.htm http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/biography/albright.html |
| March 8 | Betsy Ross Who asked her to make the first American flag? http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagtale.html |
| March 9 | Harriet Tubman By what nickname did slaves call her? http://www.civilwarhome.com/tubmanbio.htm |
| March 12 | Sally Ride What sport did this famous astronaut play as a young woman? http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html |
| March 13 | Helen Keller What is the title of her autobiography? http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=91 |
| March 14 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Which president nominated her to the Supreme Court? http://www.supremecourthistory.org/justice/ginsburg.htm |
| March 15 | Amelia Earhart What was Earhart's role on her first transatlantic flight? http://www.ninety-nines.org/earhart.html |
| March 16 | Georgia O'Keeffe Which museum presented the first retrospective exhibit of work by a woman artist? http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/okee-geo.htm |
| March 19 | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis What job did Jackie have before she married John F. Kennedy? http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jk35.html |
| March 20 | Hillary Clinton To what official role did President Bill Clinton appoint her? http://www.wic.org/bio/hclinton.htm |
| March 21 | Equal Rights Amendment Who wrote the ERA, passed by the Senate in March 1972? http://www.now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html |
| March 22 | Molly Pitcher What heroic acts did she perform during the Battle of Monmouth, in June 1778? http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/notable/pitcherm/ |
| March 23 | Clara Barton Why wasn't she permitted to work with the International Red Cross? http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bart-cla.htm |
| March 26 | Gloria Steinem Which two magazines did she help found? http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=150 |
| March 27 | Sandra Day O'Connor What "first" did she accomplish in the Arizona Senate? http://www.loc.gov/rr/women/oconnor.html |
| March 28 | Eleanor Roosevelt What was the title of the newspaper column she wrote? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html |
| March 29 | Make up a question about a famous woman from your state. |
| March 30 | Make up a question about a famous woman from your state. |