The history of women has been a long and complicated one. There have been many struggles and slight victories towards the fight for equality. One of those victories includes the declaration of National Women’s History Month honored in March, by Congress in 1987. Before women were recognized for a month, former president Jimmy Carter first instituted National Women’s History week in 1981. As the years passed the month has become more refined in its celebrations the National Women’s History Alliance picks a theme each year this year being women providing healing, promoting hope. Overall March is all about women’s achievements and supporting women. It is to celebrate the contributions of women throughout history which is important to give women the power they earned.

Madame C.J. Walker, as you might know from the TV show Self Made, was an exceptional woman worthy of recognition, who fought for equality.. When she was born she was the first child in her family to be born free. Sadly, her parents died when she was young forcing her to an orphanage. After a few years she moved with her sister, but escaped by marrying Moses McWilliams at age fourteen. During the marriage she gave birth to a daughter A'Lelia, however Moses died, making her move to St. Louis with her brothers. This is when her real story starts. Madame C.J. Walker developed a scalp disorder, losing her hair in the process. In light of this she created black hair care products that soon blew up. She became one of the first self made american woman millionaires and was a role model for women everywhere. Walker was an advocate of black women's economic independence employing 40,000 black women and men US, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Eleanor Roosevelt was another wonderful woman who worked towards a better, more inclusive world. Her parents died young, so she grew up with grandmother. When she was older she got married to Franklin D. Roosevelt, later becoming a first lady. As first lady she redefined how one can act. She hosted press conferences and spoke out for human rights, children's causes and women's issues. Eleanor also worked on behalf of the League of Women Voters supporting the advancement of women in professional and political positions, along with the rights of working-class women, through labor unions and other organizations. She was certainly a huge figure in the women’s right movement.

Still alive today, Dolores Huerta is a massive human rights activist. Her parents divorced and her mother moved Dolores and her two brothers to Stockton, California. She worked as a teacher but quit after the conditions of students coming to the light. Dolores got married, gave birth to two children and divorced. After divorcing she married Ventura Huerta had 5 kids and started the Agricultural Workers Association. Some of her many achievements include her setting up voter registration drives and lobbied politicians to allow non–U.S. citizen migrant workers to receive public assistance and pensions and provide Spanish-language voting ballots and driver's tests. Her, Huerta Chavez, and Gilbert Padilla, co-founding the National Farm Workers Association which helped create the political climate for the passage of the 1975 Agricultural Labor Relations Act. The first law to recognize the rights of farm workers to bargain collectively. Ever the activist Dolores was the vice president of the UFW and co-founded the UFW’s radio station. For her many accomplishments she received the Ellis Island Medal of Freedom Award, was inducted in the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award. Her most luminary acts for women’s right is her speaking out for the rights of women, her insistent for electing more Latinos and women to political office, and running feminist campaigns.