47 Rare Photos Of Women Who Changed History Forever
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August 19, 2015These strong women fought for their dreams, lived bravely, saved lives and influenced history forever.
We hope you get inspired by these incredible women in history. Enjoy!
1. Photograph of a samurai warrior (c. 1800s)
2. A woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was later identified as a concentration camp survivor, 1985.
3. Sarla Thakral, 21, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license, 1936
4. A suffrage activist protesting after "The Night of Terror", 1917
5. Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to compete in the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by the organizers to stop her, 1967
6. Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit. She was later arrested for indecency (c. 1907)
7. The very first women’s basketball team from Smith College, 1902
8. Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, showing a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation, 1944
9. Two women show uncovered legs in public for the first time ever in Toronto, 1937
10. American nurses landing in Normandy, 1944
11. Women's league roller derby skaters in NY, USA, March 10, 1950
12. Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail, 1961
13. Members of the Hell's Angels gang, 1973
14. Girls delivering blocks of ice after male workers were enlisted, 1918
15. Komako Kimura, a well-known Japanese suffragist at a march in New York, October 23, 1917
16. Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, 1936
17. Anna Fisher, "the first mother in space", 1980s
18. 18-year-old French Résistance activist, Simone Segouin, during the liberation of Paris, August 19, 1944
19. Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, climbing the Chrysler Building, 1934
20. Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the United States, 1907
21. Elspeth Beard, attempts to become the very first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle, 1980s
22. 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47, 1990
23. A Muslim woman covering the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil to protect her from prosecution, Sarajevo, 1941
24. Winnie the Welder, 1943
25. Jeanne Manford marching with her gay son during a Pride Parade, 1972
26. Sabiha Gökçen of Turkey, the first female fighter pilot in history, poses with her plane, 1937
27. Volunteers learning how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor (c. 1941 - 1945)
28. A captured Soviet soldier is given a drink of water by a Ukrainian woman, 1941
29. A mason high above Berlin (c. 1900)
30. Railroad workers at lunch. Most of them were the wives or mothers of the men who left for war, 1943
31. Some of the first women sworn into US Marine Corps, August 1918
32. Ellen O’Neal, one of the first professional female skaters, 1976
33. Parisian mothers shielding their children against German sniper fire, 1944
34. Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian girl who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union, October 1956
35. A Dutch woman refused to leave her German soldier husband after Allied soldiers captured him. She followed him into captivity, 1944
36. Gertrude Ederle becomes the very first woman to swim across the English Channel, 1926
37. Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, 1928
38. Afghan women studying medicine, 1962
39. A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women's Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain, 1940
40. The iconic photo of a concerned pea-picker and mother of seven children during the Dust Bowl, 1936
41. Women's Liberation Coalition March, Detroit, Michigan, 1970
42. A Los Angeles Police looks after an abandoned baby in the drawer of her desk, 1971
43. Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, May 4, 1945
44. A Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning in Burbank, California, 1944
45. Leola N. King, America's very first female traffic cop, Washington D.C., 1918
46. Female pilots leaving their B-17, "Pistol Packin' Mama" (c. 1941 - 1945)
47. A Red Cross nurse taking down the last words of a British soldier (c. 1917)