Retired U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm seated, speaking to a group of people at George Mason University. Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968, and she ran for President in 1972.
Portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg was the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court and is well known as a feminist icon for her advocacy for women's rights.