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Zoia Horn. Photo courtesy of the family.
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Zoia Horn was born on this day in 1918 in Odesa, Ukraine. She was a librarian and activist who was jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience. Throughout her life, she was a staunch defender of intellectual freedom and patron privacy. /1
An armed mob uses sledge hammers and a battering ram to break down the door of the Orleans Parish Prison and lynch 11 Italians who had been accused of murdering the New Orleans Police Chief.
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Today in history, 1891: A mob of thousands storms the Orleans Parish Prison and murders 11 Italian Americans and immigrants. The victims had been accused of conspiring to murder the New Orleans Police Chief. The event remains the largest single mass lynching in U.S. history. /1
Portrait of Col. Julia Flikke.
Col. Florence Blanchfield.
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Today in history, 1942: Julia Flikke, Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army. Her second in command, Florence Blanchfield, became the first woman lieutenant colonel. /1
Dorrit Hoffleit in 1998, when she was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
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Dorrit Hoffleit was born on this day in 1907 in Florence, Ala. She had a 75-year career as a research astronomer, educator, author and editor despite facing significant gender discrimination. She responded by creating opportunities for other women in science. /1
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Wanda Gág in 1916. Image credit: Kerlan Collection, University of Minnesota.
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Wanda Gág was born on this day in 1893 in New Ulm, Minn. She was an artist, printmaker and writer best known for her 1928 book Millions of Cats. She was also a feminist and radical thinker who created cover art and contributed articles to leftist magazines. /1
Lillian Wald. Photo credit: Patricia Corcoran.
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Lilian Wald was born on this day in 1867 in Cincinnati. She was a nurse and social reformer who pioneered the field of public health nursing. She also founded NYC’s Henry Street Settlement, which became a model for community healthcare and social services. /1
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman in the iconic 1970s TV series. Photo credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic book character of all time, created in 1941 by psychologist William Moulton Marston. He drew inspiration from the women in his life, the feminist movement, his psychological theories — and erotic pin-up art. /1
Addie Wyatt.
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Addie L. Wyatt was born on this day in 1924 in Brookhaven, Miss. She was a civil rights activist, labor leader and ordained minister who became the first African American woman to hold a senior executive position in an American labor union. /1
Alice Walker. Photo credit: Colorado State University.
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker
#ResistanceUnited #DefendersOfDemocracy #ResistanceRoots #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #TheFutureIsFemale #SheShed In light of today being International Women's Day, let's explore how Women's History Month began. 🧵
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🧵 This story was hard to digest, my friends. After you read this, you'll get an idea as to how bad slavery was. Let me tell you about Margaret Garner.
Pull up a seat🪑.(cont)
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Janet Faye Collins.
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Janet Faye Collins was born on this day in 1917 in New Orleans. Collins was a ballerina, choreographer and teacher who broke the color barrier in classical ballet. In 1951, she became the first Black prima ballerina to perform with the Metropolitan Opera. /1
Ella P. Stewart, Bowling Green University, ca. 1920.
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Ella P. Stewart was born on this day in 1893 in Stringtown, Clark County, Va. She was one of the first African American women to become a licensed pharmacist in the U.S. She was also a civil rights leader and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United States. /1
If you think that teaching what really happened to Indigenous & Black people in America is an attack on White people—that's a "you" problem.
Our history is here to stay—like it or not.
*sip*🔥☕️
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Debris and part of the fuselage of the Piper PA-24-250 Comanche that crashed near Camden, Tenn., killing Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hankins and Cline's manager and pilot, Randy Hughes.
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Today in history, 1963: Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hankins and Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn. The group was traveling from a benefit concert in Kansas City to Nashville when their small plane encountered severe weather. /1
At the height of McCarthyism, the Board of Regents required university employees to sign a loyalty oath. Sperry, Hans Lewy, and others who refused were barred from teaching without pay in 1950. #resistanceroots
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🧵 The only thing that is shocking about this is that we weren't taught about it. Cruel medical experiments on slaves in the South were common.
Black "specimens" were subjected to (cont)
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A 1950s painting of Dr. James Marion Sims, by American artist Robert Thom, is the only known representation of Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy, three of the enslaved women Sims experimented on. Image credit: American Historical Association.
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Between 1848 and 1849, at least 12 enslaved African American women and girls were subjected to invasive experimental surgeries without anesthesia. The so-called “Father of Modern Gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, conducted these horrific experiments. /1
Bert Williams. Photo credit: Bettman Collection via Getty Images.
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Bert Williams was born on this day in 1874 in Nassau, Bahamas. Little known today, he was one of the most influential African American entertainers of the vaudeville era. However, he suffered from bouts of depression due to the constant racism he faced offstage. /1
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🧵 Let's talk about some history of another oppressed group of people in America.
Women.
Did you know that some of the loudest voices against women's suffrage were other women?(cont)
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The Just Government League of Maryland marching in the Woman Suffrage Procession with a variation of the Gadsden flag.
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Today in history, 1913: Thousands of women march down Pennsylvania Avenue in the Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C.’s first large-scale political march. The event was marred by a violent mob of men who physically assaulted the marchers. /1
#ResistanceRoots #ResistanceUnited #DefendersOfDemocracy #TheFutureIsFemale #SheShed On January 1st, 2019, Letitia James was sworn in as AG of New York! She is the first African American woman to serve as a New York state elected official, The first African American AG, And the first female AG!! 🥳👏🏻
Helen Keller (left) as a child with a young Anne Sullivan. Photo credit: Bettman Archive.
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Today in history, 1887: Anne Sullivan arrives at the Keller family home in Tuscumbia, Ala., to teach six-year-old Helen. Arguably one of the most important meetings of two women, it ultimately transformed education and advocacy for people with disabilities. /1
Political cartoon about the Expatriation Act of 1907, which revoked the citizenship of women who married non-citizens.
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Today in history, 1907: Congress passes the Expatriation Act, which stripped American-born women of their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. A woman had to adopt her husband’s nationality, effectively making her a stateless alien in her own country. /1
Susanna Salter in 1887. Photo credit: Kansas Historical Society.
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Susanna Salter was born on this day in 1860 in Belmont County, Ohio. In 1887, she was elected mayor of Argonia, Kan., in a landslide, making her the first woman to serve as mayor in the U.S. and one of the first women to hold political office in the country. /1
Nancy Woodhull.
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Nancy Woodhull was born on this day in Perth Amboy, N.J. In 1982, she became the first managing editor of USA Today. Throughout her career, she was a staunch advocate for gender diversity and the advancement of women in the media industry. /1
Political cartoon about slave catchers.
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Today in history, 1842: The Supreme Court holds that the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause gave the federal government exclusive authority to legislate the return of fugitive slaves. However, the ruling also provided states with a legal loophole that still has relevance today. /1
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Shirley Chisholm.
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“Women in this country must become revolutionaries. We must refuse to accept the old, the traditional roles and stereotypes.”
— Shirley Chisholm
