Women’s History Month: March 2, 2021
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author who has published so many incredible works that they can’t all be listed in a short bio. She has written poetry, fiction, nonfiction, series, and even children’s books. Most recently The Handmaid’s Tale (published in 1985) was turned into a television series.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 1, 2021
Maya Lin is an artist and sculptor. As part of a college project, she entered a competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC. SHE WON! Although her design initially faced a lot of push back, it is now one of the most meaningful memorials in DC.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 31, 2020
To our future - may we build each other up to be brave and strong and smart and kind.
~Caroline & Eliza Greenwood
~Allie Bayne-Greenwood
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 30, 2020
Vera Atkins was a British intelligence officer during the Second World War. She was part of the team that evacuated Poland’s Enigma code breakers. Vera made her way to France and Britain to teach the Western Allies cryptanalysis of the Polish machines.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 29, 2020
Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist. She is responsible for the women’s non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. This movement helped to end the civil war in Liberia in 2003.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 28, 2020
Martha Stewart is a retail business woman, writer, and television personality. She gained success through a variety of business ventures including her famous publication Martha Stewart Living. She was convicted of insider trading in 2004 and served five months in federal prison. She bounced back from this incarceration and is still loved by the American public.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 27, 2020
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony are considered the most important leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Anthony was a well-known abolitionist and Staton did most of the writing for the team. Susan was famously arrested for attempting to vote on election day.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 26, 2020
Ramla Ali is a professional boxer and model. She is the first female Somali boxer to compete professionally. In 2019 she won the African Zone featherweight title.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 25, 2020
Dian Fossey was a primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorillas from 1966 - 1985. Dian was murdered in 1985. She had formerly been in conflict with poachers and there is no agreement over who killed her.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 24, 2020
Sojourner Truth escaped from slavery with her infant daughter in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win a court case against a white man. She went on the be an activist in the suffrage movement.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 23, 2020
Katie Sowers is an assistant coach for an American football team. She coached for the San Francisco 49ers from 2017-2021. Katie was the first female to coach in a Super Bowl game. She began her career in the Women’s Football Alliance.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 22, 2020
Maria Mitchell was an astronomer in the mid 1800s. She discovered a comet name 1847 VI. This comet was later named Miss Mitchell’s comet in her honor.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 21, 2020
Lee Miller was a photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in the 1920s before going to World War II to be a war time photographer. She famously went to Hitler’s house and took a picture in his bath tube right as the war was coming to a close and Germany had surrendered.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 20, 2020
Patti McGee was the 1964 Women’s first National Skateboard Champion. She built her first skateboard by herself, but gained fame and went on to appear on Johnny Carson’s show and on the cover of Life magazine.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 19, 2020
Molly Brown is famous for being unsinkable. She survived the sinking of the Titanic! Instead of being in shock after her rescue, she began gathering money for the less fortunate families who lost loved ones on the boat. Molly went on to survive a hotel fire and to drive an ambulance during WWI.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 18, 2020
Madeline Stuart is an Australian model living with Downs Syndrome. She has appeared on the New York Fashion Week catwalk and also in Paris Fashion Week. Her career began in 2015 and she gained not one but two modeling contracts. One for a fitness line and the other for a handbag brand.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 17, 2020
Gloria Steinem is an American feminist and journalist. She became a leader and spokes person for second wave feminism. Today she travels the country as a lecturer and is frequently organizing events that center around issues of gender equality. She is also credited with bringing Wonder Woman back after she had been largely forgotten by the comic industry.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 16, 2020
Maud Stevens Wagner is known as the first female tattoo artist in the United States. She was a circus performer who traveled the country. She worked giving tattoos at vaudeville houses and at county fairs.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 15, 2020
Tsuyako Kitashima, who went by Sox, was a Japanese- American activist noted for her roll in seeking reparations for Japanese Americans interned during World War II. She testified before the Commission on Wartime Relocation in August on 1981.
Read MoreWomen’s History Months: March 14, 2020
Claudette Colvin was a teenager living in Montgomery, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for refusing to give her seat up on a bus. Her case went all the way to the Supreme Court. Rosa Parks later did a similar thing and it gained national attention.
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