American Women Firsts - 1910s -

Covering as many women as I find information and the energy to do this. I am trying to order achievements in year order.

1910-1918

1. Madam C.J. Walker - 1st African American woman millionaire

. 2. Alice Stebbins Wells - 1st American born woman sworn in as a police officer - Los Angeles.

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3. Florence Lawrence - 1st American movie star

4. Harriet Quimby - 1st woman licensed as an airplane pilot in America.

5. Girl Guides of America (Girl Scouts) established as the 1st voluntary organization for girls.

6. Caresse Crosby - 1st woman to patent a brassiere

7. Margaret Singer - open 1st birth control center.

8. Jeannette Rankin - 1st American woman elected to congress.

9. Loretta Perfectus Walsh - 1st woman to enlist in the US Navy in a non-nursing position.

10. Annette Adams- 1st female assistant US attorney general

11. Opha May Johnson - 1st woman to enlist in the US Marines.

12. Genevieve & Lucille Baker - 1st uniformed women to serve in the US Coast Guard.

13.Sara Teasdale - 1st woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 

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