TheWomen Who Dared

A monthly box for girls ages 7–14

Her history is bigger than what fits in a textbook.

Every month, The Women Who Dared introduces girls to a remarkable Black woman whose courage, leadership, and achievements helped shape history. A biography booklet, archival portraits, activity cards, and stickers, all about her.

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A mother shows her daughter a portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune from an open box of The Women Who Dared
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The box

What's inside every box

Every month features one woman. Everything in the box is about her, so the story sticks.

The Women Who Dared box with its Mary McLeod Bethune booklet, two portrait prints, three activity cards, and a sticker sheet laid out on a table
  • 1
    Biography bookletHer life story, told in clear, age-appropriate language with archival photographs.
  • 2
    Archival portraitsReal historical photographs, printed on heavy card stock to keep, frame, or pin up.
  • 3
    Activity cardsGuided prompts that connect her story to your daughter's own ideas, goals, and voice.
  • 1
    Sticker sheetPortraits and places from the month's story.

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Mary McLeod Bethune

Educator · Organizer · Presidential adviser

The Mary McLeod Bethune edition: box, biography booklet, portrait prints, The Dream, Make Them Believe, and Five Women activity cards, and stickers

The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune opened a school for Black girls in Daytona, Florida, in 1904 with very little money. It grew into Bethune-Cookman University. She later advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and founded the National Council of Negro Women.

“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”

Mary McLeod Bethune

Her three activity cards

  1. 1
    The DreamShe built a school. What would your daughter want to change?
  2. 2
    Make Them BelieveWho could help her idea happen? She writes a 30-second pitch.
  3. 3
    Five WomenShe asks five women she admires what every young girl should know.

How it works

  1. 1Subscribe$35/month. Enter her shipping address once at checkout.
  2. 2Her box arrivesOne woman, one story, with prints, activities, and stickers to go with it.
  3. 3Meet the next womanA new box comes every month. Cancel anytime from your account.
A grandmother, father, and young girl looking through a Mary McLeod Bethune box together at the kitchen table

Why families subscribe

She should know these names.

  • Real women, real historyEducators, inventors, organizers, and artists, told accurately with archival photographs instead of cartoons.
  • Something she does, not just readsEach activity card asks her to dream, plan, and talk with the women in her own life.
  • Made to share across generationsThe box is designed for a parent, grandparent, or aunt to open with her. The conversations are the point.
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Give her a new woman to look up to every month.

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