WOMENS
How is your women's history month going?
A friend of mine has to do a report on 10 women in history for his elementary school project. He went to the internet and typed women in history in the google search engine and chose the first 10 names that appeared. I didn't care too much for the choices or in the way the choices were made, but hey, it's not my report. I gradgeeated. But it did send me into the back of my head to think about what some of my choices might have been.
"DO ONE THING EVERY DAY THAT SCARES YOU" - Eleanor Roosevelt. When her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt's role as first lady was over, but her career was not. She became a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, specializing in humanitarian, social, and cultural issues. In 1948, she drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirmed life, liberty, and equality internationally for all people regardless of race, creed or color.
Bette Nesmith Graham - invented Liquid Paper in her kitchen; sold her company to Gillette Corp. for $47.5 million; created 2 foundations to help women find new ways to make a living.
"SPEAK YOUR MIND EVEN IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES" - Maggie Kuhn. She is most famous for founding the Gray Panthers movement in 1971 after being forced into retirement by the Presbyterian Church. The Gray Panthers became known for advocating nursing home reform and fighting ageism, claiming that "old people constitute America's biggest untapped and undervalued human energy source."
"WELL BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY" - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. She is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women. Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people" - an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience."
Victoria Woodhull - On April 2, 1870, Victoria announced in the New York Herald her plans to run for president of the United States - the first woman to do so. It would be 50 years before women could vote, but there was no law preventing women from running for office. Her platform was of social and political reform. She was most dedicated to free love but, as she learned more about how few rights women had, she also made voting rights her mission as well.
On January 11, 1871, Victoria appeared before the House Judiciary Committee - the first woman ever - to deliver a memorial (a speech personally presented by a citizen before Congress, to persuade it to enact a law) on women suffrage. Victoria stated that women already had the right to vote, since the 14th and 15th amendments granted the right to all citizens. She argued that all women had to do was use their right.
A friend of mine has to do a report on 10 women in history for his elementary school project. He went to the internet and typed women in history in the google search engine and chose the first 10 names that appeared. I didn't care too much for the choices or in the way the choices were made, but hey, it's not my report. I gradgeeated. But it did send me into the back of my head to think about what some of my choices might have been.
"DO ONE THING EVERY DAY THAT SCARES YOU" - Eleanor Roosevelt. When her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt's role as first lady was over, but her career was not. She became a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, specializing in humanitarian, social, and cultural issues. In 1948, she drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirmed life, liberty, and equality internationally for all people regardless of race, creed or color.
Bette Nesmith Graham - invented Liquid Paper in her kitchen; sold her company to Gillette Corp. for $47.5 million; created 2 foundations to help women find new ways to make a living.
"SPEAK YOUR MIND EVEN IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES" - Maggie Kuhn. She is most famous for founding the Gray Panthers movement in 1971 after being forced into retirement by the Presbyterian Church. The Gray Panthers became known for advocating nursing home reform and fighting ageism, claiming that "old people constitute America's biggest untapped and undervalued human energy source."
"WELL BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY" - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. She is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women. Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people" - an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience."
Victoria Woodhull - On April 2, 1870, Victoria announced in the New York Herald her plans to run for president of the United States - the first woman to do so. It would be 50 years before women could vote, but there was no law preventing women from running for office. Her platform was of social and political reform. She was most dedicated to free love but, as she learned more about how few rights women had, she also made voting rights her mission as well.
On January 11, 1871, Victoria appeared before the House Judiciary Committee - the first woman ever - to deliver a memorial (a speech personally presented by a citizen before Congress, to persuade it to enact a law) on women suffrage. Victoria stated that women already had the right to vote, since the 14th and 15th amendments granted the right to all citizens. She argued that all women had to do was use their right.
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