Category: Women's History

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Nellie Bly

3/31/2018

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Nellie Bly

Journalist (1867 – 1922)

Known for exploits as well as resourcefulness in investigative journalism
Began a career in journalism in her early twenties after being mostly self-educated
Gravitated toward subjects like political corruption and perceptions of problems with women working
Traveled around the world in 72 days in homage to Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
Known for her work as an undercover journalist at Blackwell’s Island, a mental institution, where she pretended to be a patient in order to expose the inhumane conditions and practices there
Also exposed conditions in sweatshops, jails, and other institutions through undercover reporting

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Romana Bañuelos

3/30/2018

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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:

Romana Bañuelos

Businesswoman and U.S. Treasurer (1925 – 2018)

Thirty-fourth treasurer of the United States, serving from 1971 – 1974)and first Hispanic U.S. treasurer
Owner of a multimillion-dollar Ramona’s Mexican Food Products in Gardena, California
Born in Miami, Arizona during the Great Depression and deported to Sonora, Mexico, where she learned to farm and cook with her family
Returned to the U.S. at age 18 with her two sons and worked as a dishwasher and tortilla maker until she saved enough to start her own tortilla factory in downtown Los Angeles, which became the largest processor of Mexican food by 1990
Opened the Pan-American National Bank in East Los Angeles in 1963, with the mission of bankrolling Latinx people who wanted to start their own businesses in order to help them gain political influence

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3/29/2018

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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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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1933 – present)

First woman confirmed to the Supreme Court, and one of four woman to be confirmed
Was a wife and mother when she started law school
Taught at Rutgers School of Law and Columbia Law as one of few women in the field
Advocate for gender equity and women’s rights and former volunteer advocate at the ACLU
Now a pop culture icon known as the Notorious RBG in recognition of her leadership

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Martina Navratilova

3/28/2018

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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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Martina Navratilova

Tennis player and activist (1956 – present)

Selected as the greatest female tennis player by “Tennis” magazine in 2005 for the years 1965 through 2005
Ranked number one female tennis player in the world seven years in a row
Won more titles than any other female tennis player in history
Trailblazer for navigating fame as an openly gay athlete in the 1980s and ‘90s
Social activist for animal rights, gay rights, and underserved children

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Calamity Jane

3/27/2018

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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:

Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary)

Frontierswoman and sharpshooter (1825? – 1903)

Excellent markswoman, rider, and gender non-conformist who chose not to wear women’s clothing
Lost her parents around age 12 and drifted around mining districts in Montana
Settled in Deadwood, South Dakota
Cared for the sick during the smallpox epidemic
Her nickname “Calamity Jane” may have referred to her compassion for the less fortunate or for the warning she gave men who crossed her

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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.

Today we’re celebrating:

Margaret Sanger

Birth control activist, nurse, sex educator, and writer (1883 – 1966)

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.

Today we’re celebrating:

Mary Lou Williams

Pianist and composer (1910 – 1981)

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: Carry Nation

3/24/2018

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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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Carry Nation

Radical temperance movement leader (1846 – 1911)

Became an activist after her first husband died of alcoholism after a year of marriage
Cofounder of her local Texas branch of the Women’s Temperance Movement
Believed she was divinely ordained to destroy saloons and used a hatchet to smash bottles and kegs in saloons in what she called “hatchetations”
Exerted force in response to the lack of agency and support women had in their marriages, where they were stuck in marriages with drunken husbands
When Nation was imprisoned for her hatchetations, she raised bail money through speaking engagements and selling souvenir hatchets

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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.

Today we’re celebrating:

Fannie Lou Hamer

Voting and women’s rights activist, civil organizer, Civil Rights Movement Leader (1917 – 1977)

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: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3/22/2018

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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:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Writer (1860 – 1935)

Became a writer and lecturer in her mid-thirties despite receiving four years of erratic education
Her mother forbade her from reading fiction as a child, but later received a list of books to read from her absent father
Perkins’ most famous work, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a semi-autobiographical short story based on her experience with post-partum depression and dismissive attitude men had toward post-partum women as being ill or hysterical
Perkins divorced her husband in 1894, a rare practice in the 19th century
Her book “Women and Economics” argued for women’s economic independence

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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Nellie Bly

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Romana Bañuelos

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Martina Navratilova

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Calamity Jane

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Margaret Sanger

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Mary Lou Williams

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Carry Nation

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Fannie Lou Hamer

Women's History Month Featured Leader: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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