Augusta Ada King was an English mathematician who is considered as the first computer programmer due to her recognition that Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer had abilities beyond pure calculation. She helped publish the first algorithm that was meant to be executed by the analytical engine in the mid-1800s. She was also the Countess of Lovelace and a writer. 

Augusta was born as Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815. She was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and his wife, Lady Byron. Lord Byron did not have a happy marriage with Augusta’s mother. He had other children born out of wedlock to other women. Byron was separated from his wife one month after Augusta’s birth. He left England and never got to meet Augusta again until his death in Greece eight years later. Augusta’s mother insisted that she learns mathematics and science so as to avoid her loving poetry like her father. The two subjects were not characteristically a girl’s subject in the mid-1800s. In addition to the two subjects, her mother forced her to lie periodically so as to force her to exercise self-control. Despite that, Augusta named one…

Emmeline Pankhurst was a prominent British political activist who is remembered for the famous UK suffragette movement and her advocacy for women’s right to vote. She is named among the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century by Time. She is believed to have shaped the idea of women being an important part of society and women being capable of changing how it works. Many disagreed with her methods, which were described as militant, but all agree that her part in fighting for women led to the women’s suffrage in the UK.

Emmeline was born on 15 July 1858 on Sloan Street in the Moss Side district of Manchester. Her parents, Sophia and Robert Goulden, were politically active. Emmeline’s father Goulden supported dramatic organisations including the Dramatic Reading Society and the Manchester Athenaeum. He also owned a theatre in Salford and played the lead in several Shakespear roles. He was involved in local politics and served for many years on the Salford town council. The Gouldens family was active in social activism. Robert once invited American abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher as part of their movement to end slavery in the U.S. Emmeline loved…

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American female activist famous for initiating the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. She is referred to as “the first lady of civil rights,” and “the mother of the freedom movement” due to her active role in advocating for the rights of the black people in the US.

Louise was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was named Rosa Louise McCauley by her mother, Leona, who was a teacher, and her father, James McCauley, a carpenter. She was born to an African-American family, but some of her great-grandparents had Scots-Irish and Native American roots. She moved to Pine Level with her mother after her parents divorced. She was raised on her maternal grandparent’s farm along with her brother Sylvester. She attended the  African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a church founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the 19th century. She took academic and vocational courses at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery and later went to Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for her secondary education. She, however, had to leave school to take care of her grandmother and mother, who became ill.