Women of Vision and Achievement Crossword

First woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress; founding member of the National Women’s Political Caucus.
Imprisoned and then hanged for her Quaker faith in 1660; 400 years later her statue was placed in front of Boston’s state House.
Worked for equal rights and suffrage; co-founded the ACLU in 1910; helped write the Equal Rights Amendment.
First woman vice-president candidate on a major political party ticket in 1984.
U.S. delegate to the United Nations who championed and won approval of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
First woman promoted to brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force (1971); first female major general in any armed forces in 1973.
Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy credited with developing the COBOL computer language; coined the phrase “debugging” to fix a computer.
Ran for president on the National Equal Rights Party in 1884, receiving 4,149 votes in 6 states.
First American woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics in 1963 after she discovered the structure of atoms.
Astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847; was first woman elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1850).
Attended Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, signed the Declaration of Sentiments, and lived to see women win the vote in 1920.
First female rabbi in the U.S. and the second in the world when she was ordained in Cincinnati in 1972.
First woman to be commissioned to sculpt a statue for the government--full scale marble statue of Lincoln in the Capitol Rotunda.
Zionist leader who founded Hadassah to work on health issues for Jewish people in Palestine; rescued thousands of children from Germany in the 1930’s.
First Native American to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 for work decreasing infant mortality and decreasing tuberculosis.
First woman mountaineer to climb over 23,000 feet on Himalayan Nun Kun in 1906.