HOW BLACK HISTORY MONTH CAME TO BE…
Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of seven established. York City to the funeral Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. December 10, 1938 November 14,victims 1903 of the Triangle unidentified focusing16, on 1916 healthcare and education in the October Shirtwaist Company fire in late March. Israel and the U.S. April 5, 1911 February 24, 1912
Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Julyon 2, a1937 beatified, thetofirst American woman seat bus a white person; her U.S. Supreme Court the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, therights citizen to become aupholds saint.civil arrest sparks the modern Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second woman toUS. play baseball in November 13, 1938 movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the which guarantees women thepitches right the all-male minor leagues, December 1, 1955 Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition game against the N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a the center for October 24,and 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees strikes out both Babe February 27, 1922 African-American women’s woman to own a seat on the history, N.Y. Stock Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange. April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11,a1967 1979 discovery of pulsar, a rapidly December 28, (at ABC).women rotating neutroninstar. Fifteen the House of October 4, 19761967 Representatives form the signs the February President24, Lyndon Johnson Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. discrimination in employment. April 19, 1977 July 2, 1964
The Utah Territorial Legislature a American Revolution heroine Sybil Wyoming isFalls the first territory topasses give FirstSeneca medical school for women, the Mary McLeod Bethune opens her firstNew The Convention, the bill allowing women to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 opens. milesinon women the right to vote. England Female Medical School, school for African-American students country’s first women’s rights convention, December 10, 1869 horseback in middle of the night to November 1,the 1848 February 12, 1869 Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York warn the3,American militia that the British October 1904 Women’s Rights Movement. Mary McLeod Bethune createsaka theNellie National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, Bly, were invading. Council of Negro Women. Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around the world 72 days, became 6 hours, July 19-20, 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 5,1777 1935 Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight. Peace. fictional record set bytoPhineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and in Independence Hall present the Vice October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. President with1870 the of theDays. Rights November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, 1805 July 4, Quimby 1876 becomes the first woman to Harriet fly airplane across the English Channel. 16 an women from the National Women’s Party
were arrested April 16, 1912while picketing the White Capt.Suffrage Annie Fox receives the first Purple The Monument, depicting Susan B. House demanding universal women’s Heart awarded to charged aCady woman for her service Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, suffrage; they with TheFrances state ofL.were Washington passes aandwoman Dr. Willoughby is the obstructing first while under attack at Pearl Harbor. Lucretia sculpted byNavy. Adelaide traffic. constitutional amendment to guarantee doctor inMott, the regular U.S. December 7, 1941 at the U.S. Capitol. Johnson, is dedicated woman suffrage. October 15, 1948 July 14, 1917 February 15, November 8,1921 1910 The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA. July 20,Bryan 1942 Owen is the first woman to Ruth
represent the U.S. as a foreign minister Althea Gibson is the first African American when she is appointed as envoy to woman player to win a Wimbledon title in Denmark. women’s tennis singles. April 13, 1933 President’s Commission on the Status of Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 Women is exchange established to examine of a stock (American Stock Marian Anderson sings an Easter American woman to win the World Figure Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). concert for more than 75,000 Lincoln Skating championship. Women’s International Leagueatfor Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 Memorial. February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is1961 awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Prize. Cheek, Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Marie Opening ofHiatt, the National Museum ofU.S. of Pennsylvania, the first woman toinhead woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Dr.Ivy Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle an League institution. during Challenger flight. Washington, DC. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig)women ordained as the first museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American mother 12 October 11, 1984 the Episcopal December 1993 artists. February 1,17, 1978 and first thirdwomen American woman topriests. fly into space. April 7, 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984
