Women’s History of the month

Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.’s first birth The U.S. Women’s Trade Union League is Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New Jewish organization in American history, York City to attend the funeral of seven control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. established. Literature for The Good Earth. York City to attend the funeral of seven focusing on healthcare and education in the unidentified victims of the Triangle October 16, 1916 November 14, 1903 December 10, 1938 unidentified victims of the Triangle Israel and the U.S. Shirtwaist Company fire in late March. Shirtwaist Company fire in late March.

February 24, 1912 April 5, 1911 April 5, 1911

Esther Hobart Morris in Wyoming became President Woodrow Wilson signs a the first American woman Justice of the Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration Proclamation designating the second in May Peace. Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and in Independence Hall to present the Vice Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and as Mother’s Day Clark Expedition as an interpreter. President with the “Declaration of the Rights Clark Expedition as an interpreter. of Women” written by Matilda Joselyn Gage.

Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen presents

Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. results of her medical research

Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is Rosa Parks refuses to give up her identifying the disease cystic fibrosis U.S. Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees women the right to vote. 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the second woman to play baseball in the all-male minor leagues, pitches an exhibition game against the N.Y. July 2, 1937 Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Bethune Museum and Archives opens beatified, the first American woman citizen to become a saint. November 13, 1938 seat on a bus to a white person; her arrest sparks the modern civil rights movement in the US. December 1, 1955 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the second woman to play baseball in the all-male minor leagues, pitches an exhibition game against the N.Y. at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association. May 5, 1938 Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first February 27, 1922Yankees and strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Barbara Walters becomes the first October 24, 1956 in Washington D.C. as a center for African-American women’s history, honoring Mary McLeod Bethune. Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the N.Y. Stock Exchange. Yankees and strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly April 2, 1931 woman co-anchor of the evening news November 11, 1979 December 28, 1967 April 2, 1931 rotating neutron star. Fifteen women in the House of (at ABC). Fifteen women in the House of February 24, 1967 Representatives form the President Lyndon Johnson signs theOctober 4, 1976Representatives form the

Congressional Caucus for Women’s Civil Rights Act; Title VII prohibits sex Congressional Caucus for Women’s

Issues. discrimination in employment. Issues. Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P.

April 19, 1977 July 2, 1964 April 19, 1977 Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so. The Utah Territorial Legislature passes a American Revolution heroine Sybil The Seneca Falls Convention, the Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first First medical school for women, the New Wyoming is the first territory to give American Revolution heroine Sybil Victoria Woodhull is nominated as the bill allowing women to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles on country’s first women’s rights convention, school for African-American students in England Female Medical School, opens. women the right to vote. Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles on first woman candidate for U.S. president

February 12, 1869 horseback in the middle of the night to is held in Seneca Falls, New York Daytona Beach, Florida. November 1, 1848 December 10, 1869 horseback in the middle of the night to for the Equal Rights Party warn the American militia that the British Women’s Rights Movement. October 3, 1904 Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National warn the American militia that the British May 10, 1872 were invading. April 26, 1777 July 19-20, 1848 Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight. sails around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the Council of Negro Women. December 5, 1935 were invading. April 26, 1777 fictional record set by Phineas Fogg in Jules

February 17, 1870 October 23, 1910 Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. May 8, 1914 April 7, 1805 November 14, 1889 April 7, 1805 Amelia Earhart Putnam becomes the first woman to complete a solo-transatlantic flight Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to July 4, 1876 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to by flying 2,026 miles from Newfoundland to fly an airplane across the English Channel. 16 women from the National Women’s Party fly an airplane across the English Channel. Ireland in just under 15 hours. The Suffrage Monument, depicting Susan B. April 16, 1912 were arrested while picketing the White House demanding universal women’s Capt. Annie Fox receives the first PurpleApril 16, 1912 May 21, 1932 Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and suffrage; they were charged with obstructing Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman The state of Washington passes a Heart awarded to a woman for her service Lucretia Mott, sculpted by Adelaidetraffic.doctor in the regular U.S. Navy. constitutional amendment to guarantee while under attack at Pearl Harbor. Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol.July 14, 1917 October 15, 1948 woman suffrage. December 7, 1941

February 15, 1921 November 8, 1910

The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army

Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA.

Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first Ruth Bryan Owen is the first woman to July 20, 1942 Ruth Bryan Owen is the first woman to African-American woman to receive the represent the U.S. as a foreign minister when she is appointed as envoy to Denmark. Althea Gibson is the first African American woman player to win a Wimbledon title in women’s tennis singles. represent the U.S. as a foreign minister when she is appointed as envoy to Denmark. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, named Library of Congress’s Consultant in Poetry (later called Poet Laureate) in 1985. Tenley Albright became the first April 13, 1933 July 6, 1957 Mary Roebling is the first woman director President’s Commission on the Status of April 13, 1933May 1, 1950

February 15, 1953 American woman to win the World Figure Skating championship. Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial. April 9, 1939 “Philadelphia Eleven” deacons (Merrill Bittner, Alla Bozarth-Campbell, Alison Cheek, Emily Hewitt, Carter Heyward, of a stock exchange (American Stock Exchange). October 28, 1958 Emily Greene Balch, co-founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Women is established to examine discrimination against women and ways to eliminate it. December 14, 1961 Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial. April 9, 1939 A 12-block Mother’s Day march of “welfare mothers” is held in Washington, D.C., led by Coretta Scott King accompanied by Ethel Kennedy.

First postage stamp to honor a black Opening of the National Museum of Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Moorefield, Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. November 14, 1946 Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. Opening of the National Museum of May 12, 1968 woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Washington, DC. Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the first museum devoted to women Jeannette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Swanson, and Nancy Wittig) ordained as woman astronaut to “walk” in space during Challenger flight. Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle Discovery, becomes the first American mother of Pennsylvania, the first woman to head an Ivy League institution. Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the first museum devoted to women Lynn Genesko, a swimmer, receives the first athletic scholarship awarded to a

February 1, 1978 artists.the first women Episcopal priests. October 11, 1984 and third American woman to fly into space. December 17, 1993 artists. woman (University of Miami). 8