Women’s History of the month: May
Pearl S. Buck receives theUnion Nobel Prize for The U.S. Women’s Trade League is 100,000 to 500,000 people march in 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New New Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth Literature forattend The Good Earth. of established. York to the funeral seven York City City to attend the funeral seven Jewish organization in American history, control clinic in Brooklyn, New of York. December 10, 1938 November 1903 of unidentified victims the Triangle unidentified victims ofand the education Triangle in the focusing on14, healthcare October 16, 1916 Shirtwaist Company fire Shirtwaist Company fire in in late late March. March. Israel and the U.S. April April 5, 5, 1911 1911 February 24, 1912
Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen Amelia Earhart’s plane ispresents lost in the results her medical research Pacific of Ocean near Howland Island. Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her identifying the disease cystic fibrosis Julyon 2, a1937 beatified, thetofirst American woman seat bus a white person; her at a meeting of the American U.S. Supreme Court the 19th 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the citizen to become aupholds saint.civil 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the arrest sparks the modern rights Pediatric Association. Reverend Margaret Towner is the first Amendment the Constitution, second to play November 13, 1938 second woman woman toUS. play baseball in movement intothe woman ordained a minister in the May 5,guarantees 1938 which women thepitches right the minor leagues, December 1, 1955 the all-male all-male minor leagues, pitches Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens toan vote. exhibition an exhibition game game against against the the N.Y. N.Y. in Washington D.C. as a center for October 24, 1956 Muriel Siebert becomes first Yankees and strikes outthe both Babe Yankees February 27, 1922 African-American women’s history, woman to own a seat on the N.Y. Stock Ruth Lou Ruth and and Lou Gehrig. Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes thefirst first Exchange. April 2, 1931 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 neutron star. Fifteen the Fifteen women in in the House House of of October 4, 1976 Representatives form the Representatives February 24, 1967
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Congressional Caucus forprohibits Women’ssex Civil Rights Act; Title VII Issues. Issues. discrimination in employment. Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. April April 19, 19, 1977 1977 Hoisington July 2, 1964officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so. May 15, 1970
The Utah Territorial Legislature a American Revolution heroine Sybil Wyoming isFalls the first territory topasses give FirstSeneca medical school for women, American Revolution heroine Sybil Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first The Convention, the Victoria Woodhull is nominated asthe theNew bill allowing women to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles women the right to vote. England Female Medical School, opens. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 milesinon on school for African-American country’s first women’s rights convention, first woman candidate for U.S.students president December 10, 1869 horseback in the middle of night November 1,Rights 1848 February 12, 1869 horseback in the middle of the the night to to Daytona Florida. is held inBeach, Seneca Falls, New York for the Equal Party warn the American militia that the British warn the American militia that British October 3, 1904 May 10, 1872 Women’s Rights Movement. Mary McLeod Bethune creates thethe National Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, were invading. were invading. Council of Negro Women. Esther Hobart Morris inin Wyoming sails around the world 72 days, 6 hours, July 19-20, 1848 President Woodrow Wilson signs a became Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American 26, April 26,5,1777 1777 the first American woman Justice of the 11April minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the December 1935 Proclamation designating the second in May Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration woman pilot to make a public flight. Peace. fictional record set by Phineas Fogg in Jules Sacagawea begins helping the and as Mother’s Day Hall in Independence to present the Vice Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis Lewis and October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty February 17, 1870 Clark as an President with the of theDays. Rights Clark Expedition as“Declaration an interpreter. interpreter. May 8,Expedition 1914 November 14, 1889by Matilda Joselyn Gage. of Women” written April 7, April Earhart 7, 1805 1805 Putnam becomes the first Amelia woman to complete a solo-transatlantic flight July 4, Quimby 1876 by flying 2,026 miles fromthe Newfoundland Harriet becomes first to Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman womanto to Ireland in just under 15 hours. fly across the English Channel. fly an an airplane airplane across 16 women from the National Women’s Party were April 16, April arrested 16, 1912 1912while picketing the White May 21, 1932 Fox Capt. Annie receives the first Purple The Suffrage 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. Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first July 20,Bryan 1942 Owenwoman Ruth is the first womanthe to Ruth Bryan African-American to receive Pulitzer Prize for named Library of represent the U.S.Poetry, as a foreign minister represent the Althea Gibson is U.S. the first African American Congress’s in when appointed as envoy to when she she is isConsultant appointed asPoetry envoy(later woman player to win a Wimbledon title in called Poet Laureate) in 1985. Denmark. Denmark. women’s tennis singles. April 13, 1933 April 13, 1933 President’s Commission on the Status of May 1, 1950 Mary Roebling is the first Tenley Albright became thewoman first director July 6, 1957 Women is exchange established to examine of12-block a stock (American Stock A Mother’s Day march ofSunday Marian Anderson sings an Easter American woman to win the World Figure Marian Anderson sings an Easter Emily Greene Balch, co-founder ofSunday the discrimination against women and ways Exchange). “welfare mothers” is held in Washington, concert for more than 75,000 Lincoln Skating championship. concert for more than 75,000 atfor Lincoln Women’s International Leagueat Peace “Philadelphia (Merrill to eliminate it.Eleven” deacons October 28, 1958 D.C., led by Coretta Scott King Memorial. Memorial. February 15, 1953 and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace Bittner, Alla14, Bozarth-Campbell, Alison December accompanied by1961 Ethel Kennedy. April 9, 1939 Prize. April 9, Emily 1939 Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Cheek, May 12, 1968 Judith Rodin is named president ofU.S. Univ. November 14, 1946 Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is theafirst First postage stamp toMoorefield, honor black Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Opening of the National Museum of Opening of the National Museum of of Pennsylvania, the first woman toinhead woman astronaut to “walk” in space woman, Harriet is issued Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Lynn Genesko, aTubman, swimmer, receives the Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Women Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle an Ivy League institution. during Challenger flight. Washington, DC. Swanson, and Nancy Wittig) ordained first athletic scholarship awarded tomother a as the first museum devoted women the first museum devoted Discovery, becomes the firstto American 8 October 11, 1984 the women Episcopal December 1993 woman of Miami). artists. artists. February 1,17, 1978 and first third(University American woman topriests. fly into space. May 21, 1973 April 7, April 7, 1987 1987 July 29, 1974 November 8, 1984
