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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Margaret Sanger

3/26/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:
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Margaret Sanger

Birth control activist, nurse, sex educator, and writer (1883 – 1966)
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  • Worked as a nurse in the early twentieth century on the lower East Side of Manhattan, where she treated women in a seemingly constant state of pregnancy, but left nursing to find practical methods of birth control after receiving many requests from her patients to control conception
  • Worked for years to make birth control a fundamental human right (and coined the term “birth control”), despite immediate persecution from the government and organized religion
  • Opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, where she was arrested after an undercover police officer bought a copy of her family planning pamphlet
  • Founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In New York City, she organized the first birth control clinic staffed by all-female doctors, as well as a clinic in Harlem with an all African-American advisory council and later an African-American staff
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Mary Lou Williams

3/25/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Mary Lou Williams

Pianist and composer (1910 – 1981)
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  • Known as the “First Lady of Jazz,” Williams wrote hundreds of arrangements and compositions and recorded over a hundred records
  • Made major contributions to the Kansas City swing style of big band jazz
  • Friend, teacher, and mentor to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie
  • Later taught at Duke University and the University of Massachusetts
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Fannie Lou Hamer

3/23/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:
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Fannie Lou Hamer

Voting and women’s rights activist, civil organizer, Civil Rights Movement Leader (1917 – 1977)
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  • Became a voting rights activist after she attempted to vote in Mississippi in 1962 while working as a sharecropper
  • While trying to register and vote, Hamer was extorted, threatened, harassed, shot at, and assaulted by police and white supremacists 
  • Founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  • Gained national attention during the 1964 Democratic National Convention when the MFDP insisted on being seated with the all-white delegation
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Edith Spurlock Sampson

3/21/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:
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Edith Spurlock Sampson
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Lawyer and judge (1907 – 1979)

  • First black female judge in the United States
  • First black United States delegate to the United Nations
  • Said that she spoke “from the heart and let the law take care of itself”
  • Became an advocate for more people of color to enter into the practice of law, and was an inspirational leader to Barbara Jordan
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Jessie Redmon Fauset

3/18/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Jessie Redmon Fauset

Editor, writer, and civil rights activist (1882 – 1961)
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  • Literary editor of the NAACP’s magazine “Crisis”
  • Among those credited with ushering in a new wave of African-American literature
  • One of the first African-American people to graduate from Cornell University
  • Wrote four novels focusing on the theme of human relationships in the midst of racial and sexual barriers
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Josephine Baker

3/13/2018

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​In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
 
Today we’re celebrating:
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Josephine Baker

Dancer, singer, and civil rights advocate (1906 – 1975)
  • American performer and advocate for racial equity
  • Danced in vaudeville houses and performed with travelling dance troupes before performing on Broadway in 1923
  • Moved to Paris in 1925 and found fame as a performer that was inaccessible in the U.S.
  • Known for her irreverent performance and promotional style, Baker also spoke out against racism and earned the Medal of Resistance and the Legion of Honor
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Ethel Payne

3/12/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Ethel L. Payne

Journalist (1911 – 1991)
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  • Known as “First Lady of the Black Press”
  • Known for straightforward observations and writing style, Payne was persistent and “asked the questions [other journalists] should have been asking”
  • Confrontation with Eisenhower over plans for desegregating interstate travel became front page news
  • After in-depth coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, she turned to international affairs in the 1970s and became the first black female news commentator, working for CBS
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Frances E.W. Harper

3/8/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Frances E. W. Harper

Abolitionist, feminist, and poet (1825 – 1911)
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  • Most prominent African-American poet to reach acclaim after Phyllis Wheatley
  • Many of Harper’s poems capture the South during reconstruction
  • Raised by an aunt and uncle who ran a school and worked in a bookstore, where she developed a love of reading
  • Became a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery Society of Maine until emancipation, when she advocated for the rights of former slaves and founded the National Association of Colored Women
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Patricia Roberts Harris

3/7/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:
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Patricia Roberts Harris

Lawyer, public official, and activist (1924 – 1985)
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  • Taught and worked as an administrator at Howard University, her alma mater
  • Lead NAACP chapter and participated in social welfare and civil rights initiatives
  • Appointed ambassador to Luxembourg in 1965
  • Later became Housing and Urban Development and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (now Health and Human Services)
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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Ma Rainey

3/4/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:
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Ma Rainey

Blues pioneer (1886 – 1939)
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  • One of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record
  • Toured with groups before starting her own
  • Known for powerful vocals and lively personality, Rainey’s lyrics sometimes refer to lesbianism and bisexuality
  • Made over 100 recordings and wrote many original songs
  • Incorporated blues into her early songs and defined the classic blues of the 1920s
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