American Acrostics Volume 9: Amazing American Women

Did you know that the first American poet was a woman? Or that a woman, disguising herself as a man, served in combat for 18 months during the American Revolution? And in 1872, a woman ran for President of the United States for the first time. The first American agent to spy on Nazis behind enemy lines during World War II was a woman from Baltimore with a prosthetic leg she called Cuthbert. It was a team of Black women mathematicians who helped America win the race to the moon in the 1960s....