Wilma Rudolph rewrote history.

🚀 Overcame polio as a child
🚀 Won 3 Olympic gold medals in 1960
🚀 Became the fastest woman in the world
🚀 Refused to attend a segregated homecoming—stood for civil rights

📢 “The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.” – Wilma Rudolph

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They don’t want you to know women have served and have led.

History isn’t theirs to erase. We remember.

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📢 “Lifting as we climb.”
Mary Church Terrell lived by these words—fighting for civil rights, women's suffrage, and desegregation decades before the Civil Rights Movement. A founding member of the NAACP, she never stopped pushing for justice. 🧵
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Before Marie Tharp, the ocean floor was a mystery. In the 1950s, she mapped the seabed and discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, proving that continents move—a discovery scientists first dismissed because she was a woman. Today, her work is the foundation of modern geology. 🌍 #WHM #UnmuteWomen

🚨 Did you know? During WWII, 100 women in the WAVES program served as meteorologists, providing critical weather forecasts for military ops. They broke barriers & kept troops safe.

Today, Trump’s cuts to NOAA & NWS threaten the forecasting they helped build. We owe them more. #UnmuteWomen

🎨 Georgia O’Keeffe – The Mother of American Modernism

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) revolutionized American art with her bold, vibrant paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, and landscapes. Her work pushed the boundaries of abstraction and redefined how we see the world.
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Her 1974 Watergate speech reminded the nation of our constitutional duty to hold leaders accountable. A true icon of Women's History. #WomensHistoryMonth #UnmuteAlabama #UnmuteWomen

📚 Octavia Butler (1947-2006) – The Visionary Who Rewrote the Future

Octavia Butler didn’t just write science fiction—she transformed it. As a Black woman in a white, male-dominated genre, she defied expectations, crafting stories that explored race, power, gender, and survival.
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📚 Shirley Hufstedler was the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education, appointed in 1979. She championed equity in education, believing it was essential to democracy.

Now, the GOP wants to dismantle the Dept. of Education. Let’s protect what she helped build. #WHM #UnmuteWomen

📢 Women’s History Month Spotlight: Dr. Gladys West
Did you use Google Maps today? Thank Dr. Gladys West! 🛰️

As a mathematician, Dr. West’s work laid the foundation for GPS technology—helping create the system that powers modern navigation.
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Hattie Hooker Wilkins made history as Alabama’s first woman legislator, fighting for education & suffrage. Women’s voices belong in every room where decisions are made. Thank you, Hattie! #WomensHistoryMonth #Alabama #UnmuteWomen

All month long, we’re celebrating the women who led, fought, innovated, and shaped history—because telling the full story of America is how we fight back. They want to rewrite history. We won’t let them.

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