Women with Disabilities

Jessica Cox sits in a small plane. She has her feet on the wheel, showing how she steers.

Jessica Cox sitting in her Ercoupe. Photo courtesy of Jessica Cox.

Quilt depicting Harriet Tubman, in multiple bright-colored fabrics, seated against a dark background with a sunflower pattern
Harriet Tubman: Life, Liberty and Legacy
Helen Keller’s Lost Watch
Helen Keller's Watch
Renee, a blind woman, examines raised line drawings of the National Air and Space Museum as another staff member watches her. Renee wears dark glasses and carries a cane.
Smithsonian Intern Rene Zelickson Works with Braille Building Model
Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Graphic featuring a photo of Amy Purdy in snowboarding gear and holding her board. Video title in text.
Amy Purdy
Hear how snowboarder Amy Purdy challenged conventional notions of disability and equality in sports. Video. Grades 6 to 12. (1 minute)

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Jessica Cox sits in a small plane. She has her feet on the wheel, showing how she steers.
Jessica Cox Flies in the Face of Challenges
Graphic with photo of Lois Curtis behind a chain link fence over an outline of Georgia. Text reads "Winning Disability Rights: Lois Curtis.
How Artist Lois Curtis Won Disability Rights
February 6, 2023
Debra Moore shapes blown glass while people watch
Four Women Dedicated to the Science and Art of Orchids
March 10, 2022
Black and white photograph of Maya Angelou wearing hoop earrings and a striped shirt
Dr. Maya Angelou Spoke Her Truth through Art and Activism
January 3, 2022
Line drawings of women scientists in white on a dark, starry background.
Meet Women Space Scientists in New Free App
May 1, 2020
Kitty Cone is surrounded by reporters holding microphones. She uses a wheelchair. Someone behind her interprets in American Sign Language.
Kitty Cone: Advocate for Disability Rights
March 25, 2020