White Winter Reader

Virginia Dare is the first person born in America to English parents - 1587    
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the U.S. to obtain a medical degree - 1849    
Victoria Claflin Woodhull becomes the first woman presidential candidate in the United States when she is nominated by the National Radical Reformers - 1872    
Belva Ann Lockwood becomes the first woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court - 1879    
Elizabeth Ann Seaton is canonized, making her the first American-born saint - 1975    
Dr. Sally K Ride becomes the first American woman to be sent into space - 1983
Nancy Ruth Mace is the first female cadet to graduate from the Citadel, the formerly all-male military school in South Carolina - 1999