National Women's Month Honorees  

Linda Chavez-Thompson (b. 1944)
Labor Leader
The daughter of sharecroppers, she worked as an agricultural laborer before joining the labor union, eventually rising through the ranks of the AFL-CIO to become the first person of color, and the first woman, elected to be the Executive Vice-President of the AFL-CIO in 1995. 

Mae C. Jemison (b. 1956)
Scientist, Educator, and Former Astronaut
Currently the director of the Jemison Institute, an organization she founded to advance the use of technology in developing countries, she holds degrees in chemical engineering, Afro-American studies, and is a medical doctor, and, as a former astronaut, was the first woman of color in space. 

Yuri Kochiyama (b. 1922)
Civil Rights Advocate
Having been interned in a Japanese relocation center during the Second World War, she moved to an ethnically diverse neighborhood in New York and began her life long campaign for social justice, focusing on building bridges between people of diverse cultural backgrounds. 

Harilyn Rousso (b. 1946)
Disability Rights Activist and Psychotherapist
For over 20 years, she has worked as an educator, social worker, psychotherapist and pioneering activist in the disability rights field, with an emphasis on issues of women and girls with disabilities.

To see a complete list, see the National Women's History Project, 
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