Women’s History of the Month: January Fanny Wyoming Farmer’s is the first territory cookbooktoisgive published women theinright which to she vote.standardized December 10, 1869 cooking measurements.. January 7, 1896 Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Nellie Tayloe RossWomen. is inaugurated as the first
woman Governor December 5, 1935in U.S. history (Governor of Wyoming). Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for Violette Neatly Anderson is the first black Literature for The Good Earth. woman to practice law before the U.S. December 10, 1938 Supreme Court.
January 5, 1925
January 29, 1926
Capt. Annie receives the first Purple Hattie WyattFox Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the Heartwoman awarded to a woman for Senate, her service first elected to the U.S. while under at Pearl becomes the attack first woman toHarbor. chair a Senate Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Amelia Earhart makes the first solo seat on a bus to a white person; her flight from Hawaii to North America. arrest sparks the modern civil rights January 11, 1935 movement in the US.
December 7, 1941 Committee and the first to serve as the Senate’s presiding officer. January 12, 1932
December 1, 1955
Marian Muriel Siebert Anderson becomes is the first the first African American woman to woman own a seat to sing on the at the N.Y. Stock Metropolitan Exchange. Opera. January December 7, 1955 28, 1967
Margaret President’s Chase Commission Smith (R-Maine) on the Status startsof her Women tenure is established in the Senate, to examine where she stays in discrimination office until 1973, against became women theand firstways woman to eliminate to serve it. in both the House and Senate as she served in the December 14,previously 1961 House (1940-49). Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. January 3, 1949 of Pennsylvania, the first woman to head Pauli ordained as the first an IvyMurray Leagueisinstitution. female African American Episcopal priest. 14
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