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April 12, 2014
April 12
This Day in Women's History
1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1555 Joanna of Castile (b. 1479)
1834: Harriet Burbank Rogers born (educator, pioneer in instruction for deaf)
1841: Jennie Maria Drinkwater born (author)
1844: Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis born (poet and editor)
1866 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1868 Ella Gaunt Smith, Innovative American doll manufacturer (d. 1932)
1883: Imogen Cunningham born (photographer)
1898: Eleanor Touroff Glueck born (social worker, criminologist, studied juvenile offenders)
1904: Lily Pons born (sopranio, actress)
1908 Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013)
1912 Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
1917 Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1923 Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2004)
1929 Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1933 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1935 Wendy Savage, English gynaecologist and campaigner
1944 Lisa Jardine, English historian
1948 Lois Reeves, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1961 Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer-songwriter (Dead Can Dance)
1961 Magda Szubanski, English-Australian actress
1963 Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist
1964 Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
1967 Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter (Saint Etienne)
1968 Alicia Coppola, American actress
1971 Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, and director
1973 Claudia Jordan, American model and actress
1973 Christina Moore, American actress
1974 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
1974 Marley Shelton, American actress
1975 Josephine Baker, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1906)
1977 Sarah Jane Morris, American actress
1977 Jordana Spiro, American actress
1979 Claire Danes, American actress
1979 Jennifer Morrison, American actress and producer
1979 Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast
1985 Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress
1985 Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter (Serebro)
1985 Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and Hangry & Angry)
1986 Lorena, Spanish singer
1988 Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
1989 Kaitlyn Weaver, Canadian-American ice dancer
1990 Francesca Halsall, English swimmer
1993 Katelyn Pippy, American actress
1994 Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress
1994 Saoirse Ronan, American-Irish actress
1994 Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer (Aa!, Cute, and Buono!)
1996 Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
1997 Katelyn Ohashi, American gymnast
2000 Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
2002 A female suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2008 Cecilia Colledge, English figure skater (b. 1920)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0412calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12
http://www.historyorb.com/events/april/12
today in women's herstory-12 april
April 12
This Day in Women's History
1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1555 Joanna of Castile (b. 1479)
1834: Harriet Burbank Rogers born (educator, pioneer in instruction for deaf)
1841: Jennie Maria Drinkwater born (author)
1844: Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis born (poet and editor)
1866 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1868 Ella Gaunt Smith, Innovative American doll manufacturer (d. 1932)
1883: Imogen Cunningham born (photographer)
1898: Eleanor Touroff Glueck born (social worker, criminologist, studied juvenile offenders)
1904: Lily Pons born (sopranio, actress)
1908 Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013)
1912 Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
1917 Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1923 Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2004)
1929 Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1933 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1935 Wendy Savage, English gynaecologist and campaigner
1944 Lisa Jardine, English historian
1948 Lois Reeves, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1961 Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer-songwriter (Dead Can Dance)
1961 Magda Szubanski, English-Australian actress
1963 Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist
1964 Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
1967 Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter (Saint Etienne)
1968 Alicia Coppola, American actress
1971 Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, and director
1973 Claudia Jordan, American model and actress
1973 Christina Moore, American actress
1974 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
1974 Marley Shelton, American actress
1975 Josephine Baker, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1906)
1977 Sarah Jane Morris, American actress
1977 Jordana Spiro, American actress
1979 Claire Danes, American actress
1979 Jennifer Morrison, American actress and producer
1979 Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast
1985 Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress
1985 Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter (Serebro)
1985 Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and Hangry & Angry)
1986 Lorena, Spanish singer
1988 Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
1989 Kaitlyn Weaver, Canadian-American ice dancer
1990 Francesca Halsall, English swimmer
1993 Katelyn Pippy, American actress
1994 Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress
1994 Saoirse Ronan, American-Irish actress
1994 Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer (Aa!, Cute, and Buono!)
1996 Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
1997 Katelyn Ohashi, American gymnast
2000 Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
2002 A female suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2008 Cecilia Colledge, English figure skater (b. 1920)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0412calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12
http://www.historyorb.com/events/april/12
April 6, 2014
April 5
This Day in Women's History
1170 Isabella of Hainault (d. 1190)
1472 Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1566 - 200 Brussels nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1692 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1693 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627)
1758: Mary Jemison ("White Woman of the Genesee" captured by French soldiers and Shawnee Indians, later sold to the Senecas who adopted her
1761: Sybil Ludington born, female "paul revere" (rode twice as far!) and revolutionary war
messenger
1825: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes born (author of 39 novels and numerous short stories)
1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
1871 (or 75) - Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue) (1956)
1873: Nellie Neilson born (medievalist)
1876: Mary Elizabeth Bass born (one of first female physicians on tulane medical school staff)
1885?: Fania (or Fannia or Fanny) Mary Cohn born (pioneer in worker education, labor movement)
1887 - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1890 - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1899 Elsie Thompson, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
1901: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander born (pediatrician, microbiologist, one of the first to study antibiotic resistance)
1908 - (Ruth Elizabeth) Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, US actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel) (d. 1989)
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (d. 2006)
1916 - Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn [Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-Smith], British Labour politician
1921 - Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1922 - Gale Storm, Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show) (d. 2009)
1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1933 Barbara Holland, American author (d. 2010)
1938 Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
1940 - Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1944 - Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1946 - Jane Asher, actress (Deep End) and girlfriend of Paul McCartney
1946 - Jennifer Penney, ballerina
1947 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Filipino politician, 14th President of the Philippines
1949 Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (d. 1986 (challenger disaster)
1950 Ann C. Crispin, American author (d. 2013)
1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (ABBA)
1950 - Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1955 Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
1955 Janice Long, English radio host
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 Dame Susan Catherine (Suzi) Leather, British public administrator
1958 - Cammie Lusko, Los Angeles California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1961 Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
1962 Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 Princess Erika, French singer-songwriter and actress
1968 Gianna Amore, American model and actress
1968 Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter
1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1971 Krista Allen, American actress
1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress
1975 Sarah Baldock, English organist and choral conductor.
1975 Caitlin Moran, English broadcaster and newspaper columnist
1977 Stella Creasy, English politician
1980 Mary Katharine Ham, American journalist
1982 Hayley Atwell, English actress
1984 Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1986 Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress
1989 María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran educator (b. 1938)
1989: March for Women's Lives held in DC (over 600,000 in attendance)
1990 Sophia Papamichalopoulou, Cypriot skier
1993 Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
1999 Sharlene San Pedro, Filipino actress
2007 Maria Gripe, Swedish author (b. 1923)
2007 Leela Majumdar, Indian author (b. 1908)
2013 Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0405calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5
http://www.historyorb.com/day/april/5
today in women's herstory-5 april
April 5
This Day in Women's History
1170 Isabella of Hainault (d. 1190)
1472 Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1566 - 200 Brussels nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1692 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1693 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627)
1758: Mary Jemison ("White Woman of the Genesee" captured by French soldiers and Shawnee Indians, later sold to the Senecas who adopted her
1761: Sybil Ludington born, female "paul revere" (rode twice as far!) and revolutionary war
messenger
1825: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes born (author of 39 novels and numerous short stories)
1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
1871 (or 75) - Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue) (1956)
1873: Nellie Neilson born (medievalist)
1876: Mary Elizabeth Bass born (one of first female physicians on tulane medical school staff)
1885?: Fania (or Fannia or Fanny) Mary Cohn born (pioneer in worker education, labor movement)
1887 - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1890 - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1899 Elsie Thompson, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
1901: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander born (pediatrician, microbiologist, one of the first to study antibiotic resistance)
1908 - (Ruth Elizabeth) Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, US actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel) (d. 1989)
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (d. 2006)
1916 - Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn [Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-Smith], British Labour politician
1921 - Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1922 - Gale Storm, Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show) (d. 2009)
1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1933 Barbara Holland, American author (d. 2010)
1938 Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
1940 - Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1944 - Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1946 - Jane Asher, actress (Deep End) and girlfriend of Paul McCartney
1946 - Jennifer Penney, ballerina
1947 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Filipino politician, 14th President of the Philippines
1949 Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (d. 1986 (challenger disaster)
1950 Ann C. Crispin, American author (d. 2013)
1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (ABBA)
1950 - Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1955 Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
1955 Janice Long, English radio host
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 Dame Susan Catherine (Suzi) Leather, British public administrator
1958 - Cammie Lusko, Los Angeles California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1961 Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
1962 Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 Princess Erika, French singer-songwriter and actress
1968 Gianna Amore, American model and actress
1968 Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter
1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1971 Krista Allen, American actress
1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress
1975 Sarah Baldock, English organist and choral conductor.
1975 Caitlin Moran, English broadcaster and newspaper columnist
1977 Stella Creasy, English politician
1980 Mary Katharine Ham, American journalist
1982 Hayley Atwell, English actress
1984 Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1986 Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress
1989 María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran educator (b. 1938)
1989: March for Women's Lives held in DC (over 600,000 in attendance)
1990 Sophia Papamichalopoulou, Cypriot skier
1993 Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
1999 Sharlene San Pedro, Filipino actress
2007 Maria Gripe, Swedish author (b. 1923)
2007 Leela Majumdar, Indian author (b. 1908)
2013 Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/04calendar/a/0405calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5
http://www.historyorb.com/day/april/5
March 17, 2014
March 17
This Day in Women's History
659 - Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess, patron saint of travellers, dies at about 32
1665 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (d. 1729)
1798: Abigail Powers Fillmore born: First Lady, married to US President Millard Fillmore
1820 Jean Ingelow, English poet, novelist (d. 1897)
1841: Emily Sartain born: painter, engraver, principal of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women
1846: Kate Greenaway born: illustrator and watercolorist
1847 (or 1846 or 1848): Clara Morris born: actress
1849: Cornelia Maria Clapp born: taught biology, natural history and gymnastics at Mount Holyoke College
1862: Martha Platt Falconer born: social reformer, especially working with delinquent girls
1863: Anna Wessels Williams born: bacteriologist, worked on antitoxin for diphtheria
1869: Corra Harris born: writer
1873 - Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1878: Helen Gardner born: art historian
1886: Princess Patricia of Connaught (Lady Patricia Ramsay) born: granddaughter of Queen Victoria, gave up royal title on marrying commoner Alexander Ramsay
1898: Ella Winter born: journalist
1903: Radie Britain born: composer, teacher
1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1906 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold) (d. 1996)
1906 - Tamara Geva, dancer
1911: Camp Fire Girls founded
1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill, actress (All the King's Men)
1922 - Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1923 - Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairperson (Trades Union Congress)
1926 Marjory Shedd, Canadian badminton player (d. 2008)
1930: Betty Allen born: singer; executive director, Harlem School of the Arts
1931 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1933: Myrlie Evers-William born: civil rights activist, journalist; widow of murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1963); first woman and first layperson to deliver an invocation for a presidential inauguration, 2013
1933 Penelope Lively, British author
1936 Patty Maloney, American actress
1937 Galina Samsova, Russian ballet dancer
1938 Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2007)
1941 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1944 - Pattie Boyd, English photographer, model, and author (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1952 Susie Allanson, American singer and actress
1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress and singer (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
1954 - Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1955 Cynthia McKinney, American educator and politician
1956 Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1960 Rebeca Arthur, American actress
1960 Vicki Lewis, American actress and singer
1961 Dana Reeve, American actress, singer, and activist (d. 2006)
1961 - Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
1962 Clare Grogan, Scottish singer and actress (Altered Images)
1962 - Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 - Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)
1969: Golda Meir becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Israel; served 1969 - 1974
1972: Mia Hamm born: professional soccer player, author
1972 Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Tinker)
1973 Caroline Corr, Irish singer and drummer (The Corrs)
1973 - Amelia Weatherly, actress (Stephanie Brewster-Loving/The City)
1973 Amelia Heinle, American actress
1973 - Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
1974 - Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1975 Gina Holden, Canadian actress
1975 Natalie Zea, American actress
1976 Brittany Daniel, American actress
1976 Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1977 Tamar Braxton, American singer-songwriter and actress (The Braxtons)
1979 Coco Austin, American model and actress
1979 Stormy Daniels, American porn actress and director
1981 Eva Fislová, Slovak tennis player
1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 - Capucine, French actress and fashion model (The Pink Panther), dies of suicide at 62
1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1992 Eliza Bennett, English actress and singer
1992 - Grace Stafford Lantz, actress, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1993 Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
1994 Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)
1997 - Gail Davis, actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71
2002 Rosetta LeNoire, American actress and producer (b. 1911)
2005 Andre Alice Norton, American author (b. 1912)
2012 Margaret Whitlam, Australian swimmer and author (b. 1919)
2013 Rosine Delamare, French costume designer (b. 1911)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0317calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17
http://www.historyorb.com/day/march/17
today in women's herstory-17 march
March 17
This Day in Women's History
659 - Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess, patron saint of travellers, dies at about 32
1665 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (d. 1729)
1798: Abigail Powers Fillmore born: First Lady, married to US President Millard Fillmore
1820 Jean Ingelow, English poet, novelist (d. 1897)
1841: Emily Sartain born: painter, engraver, principal of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women
1846: Kate Greenaway born: illustrator and watercolorist
1847 (or 1846 or 1848): Clara Morris born: actress
1849: Cornelia Maria Clapp born: taught biology, natural history and gymnastics at Mount Holyoke College
1862: Martha Platt Falconer born: social reformer, especially working with delinquent girls
1863: Anna Wessels Williams born: bacteriologist, worked on antitoxin for diphtheria
1869: Corra Harris born: writer
1873 - Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1878: Helen Gardner born: art historian
1886: Princess Patricia of Connaught (Lady Patricia Ramsay) born: granddaughter of Queen Victoria, gave up royal title on marrying commoner Alexander Ramsay
1898: Ella Winter born: journalist
1903: Radie Britain born: composer, teacher
1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1906 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold) (d. 1996)
1906 - Tamara Geva, dancer
1911: Camp Fire Girls founded
1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill, actress (All the King's Men)
1922 - Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1923 - Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairperson (Trades Union Congress)
1926 Marjory Shedd, Canadian badminton player (d. 2008)
1930: Betty Allen born: singer; executive director, Harlem School of the Arts
1931 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1933: Myrlie Evers-William born: civil rights activist, journalist; widow of murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1963); first woman and first layperson to deliver an invocation for a presidential inauguration, 2013
1933 Penelope Lively, British author
1936 Patty Maloney, American actress
1937 Galina Samsova, Russian ballet dancer
1938 Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2007)
1941 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1944 - Pattie Boyd, English photographer, model, and author (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1952 Susie Allanson, American singer and actress
1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress and singer (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
1954 - Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1955 Cynthia McKinney, American educator and politician
1956 Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1960 Rebeca Arthur, American actress
1960 Vicki Lewis, American actress and singer
1961 Dana Reeve, American actress, singer, and activist (d. 2006)
1961 - Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
1962 Clare Grogan, Scottish singer and actress (Altered Images)
1962 - Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 - Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)
1969: Golda Meir becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Israel; served 1969 - 1974
1972: Mia Hamm born: professional soccer player, author
1972 Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Tinker)
1973 Caroline Corr, Irish singer and drummer (The Corrs)
1973 - Amelia Weatherly, actress (Stephanie Brewster-Loving/The City)
1973 Amelia Heinle, American actress
1973 - Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
1974 - Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1975 Gina Holden, Canadian actress
1975 Natalie Zea, American actress
1976 Brittany Daniel, American actress
1976 Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1977 Tamar Braxton, American singer-songwriter and actress (The Braxtons)
1979 Coco Austin, American model and actress
1979 Stormy Daniels, American porn actress and director
1981 Eva Fislová, Slovak tennis player
1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 - Capucine, French actress and fashion model (The Pink Panther), dies of suicide at 62
1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1992 Eliza Bennett, English actress and singer
1992 - Grace Stafford Lantz, actress, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1993 Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
1994 Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)
1997 - Gail Davis, actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71
2002 Rosetta LeNoire, American actress and producer (b. 1911)
2005 Andre Alice Norton, American author (b. 1912)
2012 Margaret Whitlam, Australian swimmer and author (b. 1919)
2013 Rosine Delamare, French costume designer (b. 1911)
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0317calendar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17
http://www.historyorb.com/day/march/17
February 20, 2014
How Many of These Early Black Feminists Do You Know?
Though black feminists have wielded social media to make willful strides into public consciousness, black feminism is nothing new. The challenge of being doubly oppressed as a black woman has always colored feminist conversations, and minority women rarely have the luxury of fighting solely on behalf of their gender. The question of intersectionality predates hashtags and Twitter feminism and goes all the way back to impasses such as the one between black journalist Ida B. Wells and white suffragist Frances Willard. Wells implored Willard to acknowledge the evil of lynching, while Willard, blinded by her race and class privileges, believed black men to be deserving targets.
Though not always recognized, black women have always made forays into the feminist dialogue to ensure black women and girls dont remain an afterthought. In celebration of Black History Month, here are 11 early black feminists, in no particular ordersome youve learned about and some you probably havent.
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)
One of the most prominent black scholars in American history, Cooper was the fourth African American woman to earn a PhD when she graduated from University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924. Having been born in slavery in Raleigh, N.C., Cooper used both her lived experience with racism and her scholastic ability to pen her first book in 1892, A Voice from the South: By a Woman from the South. The book, in which Cooper argued for the self-determination of black women, is considered the first volume of black feminist thought in the U.S.
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
An abolitionist and womens rights activist, Truth was also born into slavery, but escaped with her young daughter. She later went to court to obtain freedom for her son, becoming the first black woman to win such a case. Her famous speech on gender inequity, Aint I a Woman was delivered in 1851 at a womens rights convention in Akron, OH, and has endured as a raw and powerful utterance of the tribulations and burdens black women shoulder.
Amy Jacques Garvey
Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973)
Garvey, the second wife of black nationalist Marcus Garvey, was a daunting intellectual and social activist in her own right. A gifted journalist, she worked as a columnist for Negro World in Harlem and often discussed the intersectionality of race, gender and class as it pertained to black women. She wrote once in an essay, The [black men] will more readily sing the praises of white women than their own; yet who is more deserving of admiration than the black woman, she who has borne the rigors of slavery, the deprivations consequent on a pauperized race, and the indignities heaped upon a weak and defenseless people? Yet she has suffered all with fortitude, and stands ever ready to help in the onward march to freedom and power.
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
An activist for civil rights and suffrage, Terrell was one of the first African American women to earn a college degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1884. A close of acquaintance of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, she campaigned for racial equality, becoming a well-known activist in Washington, D.C. A writer and the first president of of the National Association of Colored Women, many of her works, including A Plea for the White South by a Colored Woman and A Colored Woman in a White World, focused on the status of black women in society. Terrell was also a founding member of the NAACP and helped organize the black sorority Delta Sigma Theta.
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how many of these early black feminists do you know?
How Many of These Early Black Feminists Do You Know?
Though black feminists have wielded social media to make willful strides into public consciousness, black feminism is nothing new. The challenge of being doubly oppressed as a black woman has always colored feminist conversations, and minority women rarely have the luxury of fighting solely on behalf of their gender. The question of intersectionality predates hashtags and Twitter feminism and goes all the way back to impasses such as the one between black journalist Ida B. Wells and white suffragist Frances Willard. Wells implored Willard to acknowledge the evil of lynching, while Willard, blinded by her race and class privileges, believed black men to be deserving targets.
Though not always recognized, black women have always made forays into the feminist dialogue to ensure black women and girls dont remain an afterthought. In celebration of Black History Month, here are 11 early black feminists, in no particular ordersome youve learned about and some you probably havent.
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)
One of the most prominent black scholars in American history, Cooper was the fourth African American woman to earn a PhD when she graduated from University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924. Having been born in slavery in Raleigh, N.C., Cooper used both her lived experience with racism and her scholastic ability to pen her first book in 1892, A Voice from the South: By a Woman from the South. The book, in which Cooper argued for the self-determination of black women, is considered the first volume of black feminist thought in the U.S.
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
An abolitionist and womens rights activist, Truth was also born into slavery, but escaped with her young daughter. She later went to court to obtain freedom for her son, becoming the first black woman to win such a case. Her famous speech on gender inequity, Aint I a Woman was delivered in 1851 at a womens rights convention in Akron, OH, and has endured as a raw and powerful utterance of the tribulations and burdens black women shoulder.
Amy Jacques Garvey
Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973)
Garvey, the second wife of black nationalist Marcus Garvey, was a daunting intellectual and social activist in her own right. A gifted journalist, she worked as a columnist for Negro World in Harlem and often discussed the intersectionality of race, gender and class as it pertained to black women. She wrote once in an essay, The [black men] will more readily sing the praises of white women than their own; yet who is more deserving of admiration than the black woman, she who has borne the rigors of slavery, the deprivations consequent on a pauperized race, and the indignities heaped upon a weak and defenseless people? Yet she has suffered all with fortitude, and stands ever ready to help in the onward march to freedom and power.
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
An activist for civil rights and suffrage, Terrell was one of the first African American women to earn a college degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1884. A close of acquaintance of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, she campaigned for racial equality, becoming a well-known activist in Washington, D.C. A writer and the first president of of the National Association of Colored Women, many of her works, including A Plea for the White South by a Colored Woman and A Colored Woman in a White World, focused on the status of black women in society. Terrell was also a founding member of the NAACP and helped organize the black sorority Delta Sigma Theta.
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