International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women lunacanada 32. Ruby Bridges : 8/Sep/1954 - . She’s an American civil rights activist. The first African-American child to desegregate an all-white Elementary School in Louisiana during the school desegregation act in 1960. Only six years old Bridges went to a school by herself escorted to school by four federal marshals and her mom. Many white parents pulled their kids out of class so that only Ruby and her teacher, Barbara Henry, were in the classroom for a whole year. Today she is still involved with activism and rising her kids. Princess Sophia Duleep Kaur Singh: 8/Aug/1876 - 22/Aug/1948. She was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. Her father had to abdicate his throne, so they moved to England; Queen Victoria was her godmother! She was one of several South Asian women who pioneered the cause of women's rights in Britain. Although she is best
