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Who Was Her Own Work of Art?: Frida Kahlo
Who Was Accused in the Salem Witch Trials?: Tituba
Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali
Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks
Who Was the Voice of the People?: Cesar Chavez
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Who Is Kamala Harris?
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
Who Was Nellie Bly?
Where Is Chichen Itza?
Who Is Greta Thunberg?
Who Was Kobe Bryant?
Who Was Ida B. Wells?
Where Is the Congo?
Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
What Are the Paralympic Games?
What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
What Is the Story of Batman?
Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
What Is the Story of Doctor Who?
Who Was Mister Rogers?
What Was the Berlin Wall?
What Is the Story of Frankenstein?
What Is the Story of Wonder Woman?
Who Is R. L. Stine?
Where Is the Serengeti?
Who Is Oprah Winfrey?
Knock! Knock! Where Is There?
Who Was Stephen Hawking?
Who Was Che Guevara?
Where Is the Kremlin?
What Is NASA?
What Was the Vietnam War?
Where Is Broadway?
Who Is Michael Jordan?
Where Is Antarctica?

Books

Who Was Her Own Work of Art?: Frida Kahlo
Who Was Accused in the Salem Witch Trials?: Tituba
Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali
Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks
Who Was the Voice of the People?: Cesar Chavez
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Who Is Kamala Harris?
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
Who Was Nellie Bly?
Where Is Chichen Itza?
Who Is Greta Thunberg?
Who Was Kobe Bryant?
Who Was Ida B. Wells?
Where Is the Congo?
Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
What Are the Paralympic Games?
What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
What Is the Story of Batman?
Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
What Is the Story of Doctor Who?
Who Was Mister Rogers?
What Was the Berlin Wall?
What Is the Story of Frankenstein?
What Is the Story of Wonder Woman?
Who Is R. L. Stine?
Where Is the Serengeti?
Who Is Oprah Winfrey?
Knock! Knock! Where Is There?
Who Was Stephen Hawking?
Who Was Che Guevara?
Where Is the Kremlin?
What Is NASA?
What Was the Vietnam War?
Where Is Broadway?
Who Is Michael Jordan?
Where Is Antarctica?

Books for Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month, which recognizes the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history in a variety of fields. Beginning as “Women’s History Week,” a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California in 1978, the movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year.

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