Due to childhood sexual abuse/trauma, she became unable to speak for years. Later, she communicated through her writing and became involved in the civil rights movement along with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. She was also known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman.

Maya Angelou 1928–2014

She was a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She discovered polonium and radium and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only one to win it in 2 different fields. Her work paved the way for the discovery of the neutron and artificial radioactivity.

Marie Curie 1867–1934

Due to childhood sexual abuse/trauma, she became unable to speak for years. Later, she communicated through her writing and became involved in the civil rights movement along with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. She was also known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman.

Maya Angelou 1928–2014

Rosa gave rise to the famous legal case, Brown v. Board of Education [1954]. In the 50s, U.S. society practised the most abhorrent and unfair segregation between black and white citizens. In 1955, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Alabama, she got arrested for that. Her family mobilized people to boycott buses, drawing attention to inhumane segregation laws. As a result, segregation was ruled unconstitutional by Courts.

Rosa Parks 1913—2005