Ad & description from TV Guide - May 15-21, 1976

Telecast: Thursday - May 20, 1976
90 min daytime special
ABC television network

The contributions of noted American women over the past 200 years are depicted through dramatization and newsreel footage. Patricia Neal narrates the program, which includes vignettes on such women as Susan B. Anthony (played by Lois Nettleton) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Celeste Holm), pioneer suffragettes; Harriet Tubman (Melba Moore), who helped free hundreds of slaves; and Margaret Sanger, who established the first birth-control clinic in the U.S.

This program won three Emmy awards and the Clarion Award for Human Rights.
 

Party to celebrate  "American Woman: Portraits of Courage" Click for larger view Patricia Neal, Maureen Stapleton,  Kate Mulgrew &  Helen Gallagher  Photo by Robin Platzer