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Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009 and has served since August 8, 2009. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic and Latina member of the Court.

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Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, at age 16, met and helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean.

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Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and bold, vibrant colors. She is celebrated in Mexico for her attention to Mexican and indigenous culture and by feminists for her depiction of the female experience and form.

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Yuri Kochiyama was an American activist. Influenced by her Japanese-American family's internment, she advocated for many causes, including black separatism, the anti-war movement, reparations for Japanese-American internees, and the rights of people imprisoned by the U.S.

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Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children where the local Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.

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Dolores Huerta is a living civil rights icon. She has spent most of her life as a political activist, fighting for farmworkers and the rights of the downtrodden. She coin the phrase Sí se puede which would become the slogan for the United Farm Workers of America union.

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Henrietta Lacks was a woman who unknowingly donated her cells.
Her cells, known as HeLa cells, remains immortal in research around the world. They were essential to developing the polio vaccine. They went up in the first space missions.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1993 until her death in September 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court.

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What year did Women’s History Month begin?