Meet Lorena Ramírez, an Indigenous Rarámuri athlete from Mexico known for winning ultramarathons in her traditional skirts and rubber sandals, in Daughter of the Light-Footed People.
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Learn about the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist — in The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist, by Patricia Daniele and Junyi Wu.
Learn the about the women who blazed a path forward for everyone The ABCs of Women’s History, by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer.
Learn the story of the first American woman to fly to space in I am Sally Ride, the 35th hero in the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Learn the story of a Native-led movement that saw the successful removal of four dams in I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience, by Brook M. Thompson and Anastasia Khmelevska.
Learn how a small Seder dinner on the campaign trail inspired a White House tradition in Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, by Richard Michelson and E.B. Lewis.
Learn about Olympian and changemaker Wilma Rudolph in Go, Wilma Go! Wilma Rudolph, from Athlete to Activist, by Amira Rose Davis, Michael G. Long, and Charnelle Pinkney Barlow.
Members of an Indigenous community come together for a buffalo hunt in The Gift of the Great Buffalo, by Carole Lindstrom and Aly McKnight.
In Before the Ships: The Birth of Black Excellence, author Maisha Oso looks at Black history before enslavement.
Follow a brother and sister as they learn about Black history through the lens of a camera in Greatness by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt.