Women’s HERstory Month: March 11, 2022
Joan of Arc lived in Medieval France. She had a vision from God regarding the next royal of France and the 100 year war with England. Joan became a warrior and lead men into battle. Later Joan was called a heretic and burned for her crimes. She was canonized over 100 years after her death.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 10, 2022
Sally Hemings was a slave to the Jefferson family and the mother of many of Thomas Jefferson’s children after she was impregnated as a teenager. She was freed from slavery at the end of her life, after Thomas Jefferson died.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 9, 2022
Iva Toguri was a Japanese-American disc -jockey working in Japan during the second world war. She was forced by the Japanese government to say certain things in English over the radio to America POWs. She used sarcasm and inflection that would not have been recognizable to non-bilingual people. After the war she was arrested as a traitor to the United States and put in prison for more than six years.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 8, 2022
Phillis Wheatley was taken into slavery as a small child. She was enslaved in the United States. She learned to read and write with her owner’s wife. Phillis became the first enslaved person, first African American woman, and third colonial woman to have her work published.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 7, 2022
Nefertiti was queen of the 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She is so well known for her sandstone bust rediscovered in 1913. She has become a global icon of female leadership, beauty, and power.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 6, 2022
JoAnn Tall is an environmental activist of the Oglala Lokata tribe who has worked to ensure that her people have a chance to approve major projects for energy development.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 5, 2022
Toni Stone was the first woman to ever play professional baseball as a regular on a big-league team.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 4, 2022
Connie Chung is a pioneer in American television journalism. She was the first person of Asian descent to anchor one of America’s major news stations.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 3, 2022
Marielle Franco was a Brazilian politician. She was from the slums in Brazil and was openly gay. She worked to help the people on the outskirts of the community who were often ignored by the government. Marielle was assassinated.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 2 2022
Abigail Adams was the 1st Second Lady of the United States and the 2nd First Lady of the United States. The Adamses were the first couple to live in the White House. She was very influential in her husband’s political career. He would often read letters she wrote during the drafting of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Read MoreWomen’s HERstory Month: March 1, 2022
Betty White was the First Lady of television. She is well known for her roll on Golden Girls, but worked in television from LITERALLY when it started. Betty spend her life off screen advocating for animals rights.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 31, 2021
You get to see them dressed up as a lot of incredible women, but they too, just as themselves, hold a significant place in this world.
I don’t know how long they will allow me to use them as models, but I am glad they have helped me introduce 120 women over the last four years.
“Here’s to storng women - may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them”
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 30, 2021
Jacinda Ardern is a politician who has been serving as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand. She was first elected to the House of Reps in 2008.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 29, 2021
Molly Brant was a Mohawk leader in New York and Canada in the era of the American Revolution.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 28, 2021
Babe Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, basketball, and track and field. She won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LGPA major championships. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 27, 2021
Temple Grandin is a scientist, activist, and autism spokesperson. She is listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and has been outspoken about the inhumane treatment of animals.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 26, 2021
Laverne Cox is the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy and the first to win an Emmy award. She is an LGBTQ+ activist.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 25, 2021
Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who helped found the National Farmworkers Association. She helped organize the grape strike in 1965.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 24, 2021
Carol Shaw is one of the first female game designers and programmers in the video game industry. She is best known for creating the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter River Raid.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 23, 2021
Alice Guy Blanche was a French pioneer filmmaker. She created the first narrative fiction film and was the only known female filmmaker in the world from 1896 to 1906.
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