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Tubman, herself an escaped slave, helped hundreds of slaves escape the South by means of the Underground Railroad. She nursed Union troops during the Civil War and took on spying missions at great personal risk. Her actions earned her the nickname "Moses of her people."

Harriet Tubman

In 1903 Curie was awarded a Noble Prize in physics for her work on radioactivity, and 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize in chemistry for her study of the elements polonium and radium.

Marie Curie

Parks in a booking photo taken on Dec. 1, 1955, at the time of her arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. The action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and became a milestone in the struggle for American civil rights.

Rosa Parks