Annie Elizabeth Delany was the second black female dentist in New York State and would give free dental exams to children in between looking after the teeth of famous civil rights leaders and authors. Sarah Delany was the first black woman to teach home economics in a New York City school. The sisters were daughters of a slave, and in 1993 they released a book titled Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. They lived until they were 109 and 104 years old.
16 year old Stefania and six year old Helena Podgorska hid 13 Jews in the attic of their house in Poland during World War II, even though they lived right next door to an SS officer.
Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell (two of the first American women to receive their medical degree) founded the first hospital for women and children in the US.
The Trung sisters lead the Vietnamese revolution to break away from China and establish their own independent state
