WOMEN'S WALK OF FAME - Women whose journey is about peace

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1ST female U.S. Vice President

Indian and Jamaican American,

rising to the rank of highest female official in US history , having gone through experiences like  “busing,” the policy of transporting students to schools outside their neighborhoods to try to reduce racial segregation. 

1ST African American First  Lady who taught the nation and the world how to eat and live healthy, having risen above challenges of racisim, from the south side of Chicago. 

Abigail Adams, wife of Founding Father and 2nd US President 

John Adams & mother of 6th

 US President John Quincy Adams,  can be considered as start of women's revolution with her famous statement

 "REMEMBER THE LADIES".  

 Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, pioneer for rights for people with intellectual disabilities.  

Helen Keller, leading advocate for individuals with disabilities overcoming limitations of blindness and deafness

 Photo : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 

1ST Tribal, female and youngest President of India, having risen above personal tragedies to hold highest office of the largest democracy in the world.

1ST female President of United Nations General Assembly (from India)

 UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata 

 helped "poorest of the poor"

*Nobel Peace Prize 1979

 “In honour of her contributions to the relief of humanity’s suffering”

  Image by Mother Teresa Center

As wife of Mahatma Gandhi , taught the Mahatma quality of silent resistance, which Mahatma Gandhi imbibed in his message of non violence freeing India from 400 years of British rule.

"The fearless Queen who defied Empires" and formed the first female soldiers army of girls at age 13 yrs, revolting against British rule  in India 1857.