$100 Women’s History 2014 Gazette 2014 A Gazette From the National Women’s History Project Volume 6

National Women’s History Month • 2014 Celebrating Women of Character, Courage & Commitment

Katharine Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Ryan Gibbs 20th Century Women’s Rights Pioneer Women’s Employment Pioneer Lisa Taylor Chipeta Civil Rights Attorney Diplomat and Indian Rights Advocate

Agatha Tiegel Hanson Pharmacologist and Public Health Activist Educator, Author, and Advocate for the Anna Julia Deaf Community Cooper Tammy Duckworth African American Member of Congress Educator and Author and Iraq War Veteran

Arden Carmen Delgado Votaw International Women’s Eversmeyer Rights Activist Jaida Im The Old Lesbian Advocate for Survivors Oral Herstory of Human Trafficking Project Founder Ann Lewis Human Rights Organizer, Women’s History Advocate

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Dear Friends - What’s Inside: Special This year’s theme, Celebrating Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment, honors the extraordinary and often unrecognized determination and tenacity of women. Against social convention and often legal restraints, women • NWHP Partners & Supporters have created a legacy that expands the frontiers of possibility for generations to come. They have demonstrated their character, courage and commitment as mothers, educators, institution builders, business, labor, political and • Gala Reception and Dinner March 27 WOMEN’S community leaders, relief workers, women religious, and CEOs. Their lives and their work inspire girls and women to • Invitation to Join NWHP achieve their full potential and encourage boys and men to respect the diversity and depth of women’s experience. • NWHP Bus Tour HISTORY Thank you for your support in “writing women back into history.” • 2014 Honorees and Nominees • Women's History Catalog Catalog Inside Molly Murphy MacGregor Executive Director and Cofounder National Women’s History Project

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Kate Mullany National Historic Site 350 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180 www.katemullanynhs.org Celebrating Women of Character, Courage & Commitment 2014 National Women’s History Project 2014 National Women’s History Month Nominees Builders of Communities/Institutions Government Workers he women who were nominated to be the 2014 National Women’s History Month Honorees Maria Theresa (Terry) Shank Maria “Cuca” Robledo Montecel, Myrtle Gansu (1872 – 1958) Frankie Sue Del Papa represent a wide range of women’s accomplishments and achievements. Each is a woman of (1949 – Present) T 1931- Present Ph.D. (1953 – Present) Became the longest serving elected courage, commitment and character. Included in this year’s nominees are educators, institution Community leader who founded the A strong and determined advocate official in Long Beach, California, Political role model who is the Women’s Network of Pitt County, for quality educational opportunities from 1919 to 1951. longest serving public servant in builders, business, labor, political and community leaders, relief workers and CEOs. Many were cofounded the North Carolina Center for all children and their families. Nevada. pioneers in a variety of fields and all earned placement in numerous categories and endeavors. for Women and Public Service. Janet E. Petro (1959 – Present) Frankie Sue Del Papa Deputy Director at NASA’s John F. Houra Rais (1962 – Present) Kikako Nakauchi (1931 – Present) (1949 – Present) Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Florida Senior engineer at the Naval Surface Role model for young students em- Champion for women’s rights who helped the Center begin to transi- Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division Women Making History Educators and Visionaries phasizing the importance of giving also advocates for domestic violence tion to the nation’s premier multiuser works to solve some of the most back to their own communities. prevention and consumer fraud spaceport. difficult technical challenges facing Anne Montague (1939 – Present) Lynn Marie Madison Jackson Virginia Estelle Randolph Grace E. Harris (1933 – Present) protection and supports the arts, today’s war fighters. Director of non-profit Thanks! Plain (1952 – Present) (1874 – 1958) Visionary leader of the Grace E. Victoria Wilder Crews education, and the environment. Donna Zickefoose (1965 – Present) and Simple, which creates projects Dred Scott Heritage Foundation Educator and industrial teacher who Harris Leadership Institute at Virginia (1946 – Present) Ascended through the ranks of law Kimberly Stomach focused on finding and honoring Founder developed St. Louis school championed upgrading vocational Commonwealth University promot- Life-long anti-drug and alcohol ad- enforcement, during times when (1968 – Present) Rosie the Riveters. penny drives for a statue honoring training in African American schools ing the development of current and vocate who founded City of Refuge females remained a minority in At the Naval Undersea Warfare Cen- the historic anti-slavery litigants throughout the country. emerging leaders. Point of Impact (CORPOI). the field, to become Warden of the ter Division in Keyport manages an Edna Buckman Kearns Dred and Harriet Scott. largest federal prison in the United annual maintenance budget of over (1882 – 1934) Linda Pollack Shevitz Nathalie C. Lilavois, Ed.D. States. 4 million dollars. Imaginative suffragist who drove a (1943 – Present) (1965 – Present) horse-drawn wagon called the “Spirit Maryland education leader who Educator who helped lay the foun- Women Pioneers and Trail Blazers of 1776” through Manhattan’s city co-founded the National Association dation for rebranding the Malik Maud Powell (1867 – 1920) Lilian Jeannette Rice (1889-1938) traffic in 1913 to promote Votes for of Multicultural Educators and the Melodies Sisterhood, Inc, dedicated Volunteers, Aid Workers, Diplomats Pioneered the violin recital in North Pioneering master architect, city Women. Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. to fostering cultural enrichment and America, gave the American planner, designer with 12 Rice build- Eleanor I. Robbins (1942 – Present) civic and social responsibility. Leads efforts to mentor Native Ameri- Ann Marie Delgado, M.Ed., J.D. premiere of major concertos by ings on the National Register as well Tchaikovsky. as scores of others on local historic can children to become scientists and (1972 – Present) Ri’Cha ri Sancho (1975 – Present) registers. www.lilianjrice.com to save our environment. Influential educator and role model Educator, performer, and mentor Anna R. Samick (1937-2003) at Buhach Colony High School who advocates for African, Native Anna Arredondo Chapman First woman to serve as a business Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Atwater, CA, who developed a American, and Latina cultural (1946 – Present) and education representative in the [Hedy Lamarr] (1913 – 2000) women’s studies curriculum for high awareness. Highest rated Hispanic civilian wom- Aerospace Workers Union (IAMAW). Movie and inventor who devel- school students. an before retiring in 2004 after work- oped a key technique necessary for ing for over 32 years from Laughlin wireless communication. Air Force Base in Texas.

Business Owners, CEO, Founders Elizabeth Anderson Hishon Katy Todd (1987 – Present) (1944 – 1999) Peace Corps volunteer who taught Deborah Brenner (1966 – Present) Nicole Levine (1967 – Present) Trail-blazing attorney whose Su- women in Togo how to run a savings Organized Women of the Vine to A single mother who used the most preme Court case forced legal firms and loan program and start their bring sustainable grape growers and basic grass-roots efforts to become to include women as partners. own businesses. winemakers into a marketing col- the undisputed gold standard for Women Religious cleaning and extermination business laboration under one brand. Mary Whitfield Ramerman in the NY Metro Area. Mother Frances Warde (1955 – Present) (1810-1884) Andrea McDowell John Baptiste Dorothy Arzner (1897 – 1979) Developed better health care in Marie Thérèse (Porter) Royce Founded the Sisters of Mercy in (1972 – Present) Directed the first “talkie” for Para- Haiti, converted to Catholicism and Edna Kearns (left) with the horse-drawn 1961-Present America to improve the lives of the Marilyn Lacey (1948- Present) On June 8th, 2012, the Dred and CEO of Axum Management Capabili- mount, developed the first boom became a self-ordained priest and suffrage wagon, the “Spirit of 1776,” Senior Director International Public poor, uneducated, and others mar- Sister of Mercy and social worker Harriet Scott Statue was installed on ties, whose character and leadership microphone, was the first woman in established her own parish Spiritus on its maiden voyage from Manhattan Affairs at Alcatel-Lucent whose work ginalized by society. involved with refugees and other the south lawn of the Old Courthouse is demonstrated in her successful the DGA (Director’s Guild of America). Christi Church in Rochester, NY. to Long Island in July of 1913. Also in in downtown St. Louis. Information at raises awareness of global concerns displaced populations since 1980. company and in her innovative fund- NCSistersWeek_Gazette Ad_NEW FINAL_Layout 1 12/19/13 2:35 PM Page 1 wagon: Serena Kearns (center) and www.thedredscottfoundation.org raising efforts for her community. and encourages cross-cultural dia- Angela Duke Hicks Irene Davison (right). logue. www.GenderStrategy.com Served as a missionary in India and Verna Fowler Belize, then worked with women and Founding President of the College of Announcing children in Africa suffering from AIDS the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin.

Mothers and Mentors National National Catholic Sisters Week (NCSW) March 8-14th is being launched to make women religious more known and vis- Katarina Ferencovic Horvat Mrezar Minnie Evelyn Greensmith Catholic Sisters Week ible on a broad national level. As evidenced by the four Catholic (1894 – 1988) O’Donnell (1922 – Present) March 8 –14, 2014 sisters who are 2014 Nominees, women religious have made vital Mother, landlord, saloon proprietor, Drove an ambulance during the contributions to the fields of education, health care, criminal jus- and first woman licensed as a barber blitzkrieg in London, married a USAF Learn more at in Indiana. American, then travelled the world. tice, social justice, theology, the arts, and even politics. Women stkate.edu/ncsw religious passion is to stand with the poor and vulnerable, re- Emma Gomez (1934 – Present) Triana LaDane Kuniken gardless of race, socioeconomic status or religion. NCSW will Respected teacher and mother who (1982 – Present) SPONSORS make visible a contemporary view of Catholic sisters, their lives, works to improve the quality of life Dedicated community and church St. Catherine University their mission and their works, that brings to light the tremendous of families and working people. member, mother, and mentor who Conrad N. Hilton Foundation impact they are making today. For more information, visit works to guide the values of children. Marie Therese (Porter) Royce in Haiti www.stkate.edu/ncsw or email [email protected].

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Celebratingquite illWomen and the idea of dying of Character, Courage and Commitment Early African-American Chipeta American Indian Tribal Anna Julia Cooper education was demonstrated as a warrior appealed to him. by her 40-years service to Feminists (1843 – 1924) Leaders, Negotiators, After debating with her husband 1858 –1964) Washington DC’s M Street High Indian Rights Advocate through a long night, Chipeta and Peacemakers African American Educator Jerena Lee (1783-?), women’s rights and Diplomat School, the nation’s first black convinced him that war would and Author public high school. As a teacher pioneer, became the first woman authorized Queen Anne (dates unknown), an 18th to preach for the African Methodist Episcopal be devastating for their people. and principal she prepared century Pamunkey Indian leader, negotiated Anna J. Cooper, author, educator, Church in 1819. Chipeta, Ute Indian leader, Ouray ordered all Ute men to stay students for higher education peace and fair treatment for her people with and speaker, was one of the diplomat, and peacemaker, helped on their reservations, the hostages Maria W. Stewart (1803-1880), Virginia colonists. leading intellectuals of her time. and sent generations of graduates prevent a war between her people were released, and the uprising abolitionist and women’s rights activist, was the Throughout her long life, she to prestigious universities. Fired and white settlers. As wife and came to an end. Nanyehi Nancy Ward first African American woman to lecture about promoted education and the as principal in 1906 when she trusted advisor of a Ute chief, (1738-1822), Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, women’s rights. The following year, Ouray and betterment of African American opposed the Board of Education’s she was known for her kindness she served in tribal councils, negotiated peace Chipeta led a delegation of Ute women’s lives, a cause she believed decision to dilute the curriculum Harriet Anne Jacobs (1813-1897), and generosity and was highly with colonists, and introduced her people to chiefs to Washington, D.C. to was essential to a more just society of “colored” schools, she was documented the sexual abuse of slave women respected by both Utes and white new farming and dairy production methods. rehired as a teacher four years in her autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a settlers. negotiate a resettlement treaty. for all. Chief Ouray died a short time later and continued work at M Slave Girl” (1861). (1844-1891), Cooper was born into enslavement Born into the Kiowa Apache tribe and often tried to drive them out later and Chipeta went with College) and further her career, Street until 1930. Cooper worked Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), a Paiute Indian activist and educator, was very and worked as a domestic servant about 1843, Chipeta was raised by through violent attacks. During this her Uncompahgre people to a opportunities often denied to another 20 years as president suffragist and civil rights activist, led many influential in 19th century US/Indian policies as a young girl. Her education the Uncompahgre Ute tribe in what difficult time, Chipeta showed great reservation in Utah. married women. and registrar at Frelinghuysen important organizations including the National and lectured across the country addressing the began in 1867 at a school founded is now western Colorado. By age generosity to settlers, giving them plight of her people. University. Association of Colored Women. Chipeta lived another forty-five to educate former slaves where By the 1890’s Cooper had become 16, she was the wife of Ouray, who food to prevent starvation. (1891-1960), years. She was considered a wise she excelled, taking the high level a distinguished speaker articulating Earning a Ph.D. in history from later became a powerful leader of Alice Brown Davis (1852-1935) was author and part of the Harlem Renaissance, In 1879, a group of Ute warriors, elder and her opinion was often courses reserved for men. She the desperate condition of African the Sorbonne at the age of 65 is their people. the first female Principal chief of the Seminole is best known for her novel, “Their Eyes Were angry about their poor treatment sought out by chiefs. During married a fellow alumni, but he American women facing both a further testament to Cooper’s tribe of Oklahoma 1922-1935. Watching God.” Chipeta’s long life spanned the on a reservation, killed eight white visits to Colorado, white residents died tragically after only two years racism and sexism. In 1892 her strong regard for education and tumultuous and violent transition of men and took women and children welcomed her as an honored Viola Jimulla (1878-1966), as chief of of marriage. As a widow Cooper book “A Voice from the South” was her determination to be a role (1797-1883), an Native American lands to America’s hostage. Ute men from other bands guest. the Prescott Yavapai tribe helped her people was permitted to continue her released, widely considered one the model for the generations that escaped slave turned abolitionist and women’s western states. The Ute people were eager for a war to drive out attain better living conditions and more education (earning undergraduate first articulations of Black feminism. followed. Anna Cooper lived, and rights activist, argued for the recognition of considered settlers to be invaders settlers. Chief Ouray was by then modern facilities. and graduate degrees from Oberlin Cooper’s passionate belief in thrived, for 105 years. Black feminism in her famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851).

Secretarial Work in Katharine Ryan Gibbs Notable American Agatha Tiegel Hanson Intellect of Women,” challenged Deaf Women the belief that women were the U.S. (1873–1959) intellectually inferior to men. She (1863 – 1934) 1917 and New York City in 1918. 1862 American women filled clerk posi- Gibbs became a secretarial empire, Alice Cogswell (1805-1830) became Educator, Author, and argued that gendered expectations, Women’s Employment not biological differences, were tions that men left for the Civil War. Pioneer making skilled office work a deaf at age 2 at a time when deafness was Advocate for Deaf realistic career for women. treated as a mental illness. Showing intelligence Community to blame for women’s limited 1874 Introduction of the Remington type- and interest in learning, she inspired neighbor educational opportunities. Hanson writer. Men still took shorthand, but women Katharine Ryan Gibbs founded At a time when educated women Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet to establish the first Agatha Tiegel Hanson was a urged women to seek education were hired at often half the male salaries, as Katharine Gibbs School in 1911 were generally expected to become school for the deaf in North America. teacher, poet, and advocate for to better themselves and to break “typewriters.” to provide women with high- teachers or nurses, Katharine women and the deaf community. down society’s barriers to women’s level secretarial training and the Gibbs School offered women an (1805-1830), 1911 Katharine Gibbs and Mary Ryan Deaf and blind in one eye from success. opportunity to earn their own who lost a majority of her hearing while in col- found Katharine Gibbs School. exceptional secretarial education a childhood illness, she refused incomes. Her school quickly and new opportunities. For many lege, was a renowned astronomer whose work to let her disabilities define her. After graduation, Hanson taught 1917 Women again fill secretarial posi- expanded, opening branches near women, being a Gibbs secretary laid the foundation for contemporary stellar The first woman to graduate from for six years at the Minnesota tions that men left for World War I. The role of many ivy-league universities and opened a path to success; graduates classification. Gallaudet University, she argued for School for the Deaf. She was hard-of-hearing students.) Despite active in local, state, and national secretary is associated with women ever since. effectively establishing secretarial went on to become business non-business courses, ensuring Nellie Zabel Willhite (1892-1991) the recognition of the intellect of work as a desirable occupation for facing discrimination and low deaf organizations throughout 1942 The National Secretaries Association is leaders, lawyers, diplomats, and graduates were well-rounded and was the first deaf woman to earn a pilots license women throughout her life. expectations for female students, her life, advocating especially for created to promote professionalism in the field. women. leaders in higher education and highly intelligent individuals. in the United States. Hanson came of age at a time Hanson excelled inside and outside better education and employment Gibbs was a mother and housewife other professions. 1970s As feminists fight for women’s Gibbs Schools opened at a time (1887-1948), left when most deaf people were the classroom. An avid poet and opportunities for deaf women. An rights in the workplace, the term "secretary" for much of her life, until she was Gibbs opened her schools in the when the majority of clerical work partially deaf from measles as a child, was an denied access to education, and author, she was an associate editor accomplished writer, she wrote becomes (for some) negative and is replaced widowed at 48 and left with no best neighborhoods, marketing was still performed by men. As these anthropologist and folklorist, she was a teacher deaf women had very few options. of the campus newspaper and poetry and articles for numerous by "administrative assistant" to better describe means to support herself or her two them to women students who could men left for World War I, Gibbs of . Fortunate to receive a superior founded the first campus sorority, publications throughout her adult sons. Teaming up with her sister, pay the high tuition. Gibbs students secretaries - women - easily filled primary education, she was now Phi Kappa Zeta. the challenges and serious nature of the role. Nansie Sharpless (1932-1987), left life, including pieces arguing for Mary Ryan, the two purchased a learned more than just office skills; these roles and many stayed in admitted to Gallaudet University in deaf at age 14 from meningitis, made invaluable Excelling academically, Hanson women’s suffrage. Agatha Hanson’s 2011 Last Gibbs closes. Lynn Peril’s book failing Providence, Rhode Island they were also taught how to dress, them. Katharine Gibbs encouraged 1888 along with a select few other contributions to her field of analytical neuro- earned the position of valedictorian success as an educated woman and “Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to secretarial school in 1911. Under speak, and interact professionally. graduates to not only expect great women on a trial basis. (Gallaudet Making it in the Office” is released. chemistry. and in 1893 became the first outspoken advocate for the deaf Gibbs’ leadership the school grew, Outstanding professors and things but also to have the courage remains the only U.S. college female Gallaudet graduate. paved the way for generations of opening branches in Boston in intellectuals were hired to teach and wisdom to profit from them. dedicated to educating deaf and Her valedictorian speech, “The hearing-impaired women.

6 707-636-2888 www.nwhp.org 7 Celebrating Women of Character, Courage & Commitment 2014 National Women’s History Project Celebrating Women of Character, Courage and Commitment Frances Oldham Kelsey Significant Dates in Roxcy O'Neal Bolton President Nixon in 1972 to sign The Equal Rights with severe birth defects after their the declaration for the annual Amendment (ERA) FDA History (1926 – Present) celebration of Women’s Equality (1914 – Present) mothers took the drug for morning "to ensure that rights shall 20th Century Women’s Day on August 26th. Pharmacologist and Public sickness. The crisis 1820 Eleven physicians establish the first not be denied or abridged compendium of standard drugs for the U.S. Rights Pioneer Health Activist brought to light inadequacies in In 1972, Bolton founded Women ...on account of sex." both drug clinical trials and the 1848 Drug Importation Act requires U.S. Roxcy O’Neal Bolton is a lifelong in Distress, the first Florida Frances Oldham Kelsey, as a FDA’s approval process, leading Customs Service inspection of adulterated drugs advocate for women’s rights. women’s shelter to provide 1923 The ERA is written by suffragist pharmacologist with the Food Congress to pass legislation giving from overseas. Founder of Florida’s first battered temporary lodging, legal assistance, and introduced in Congress; for decades it is sup- and Drug Administration (FDA), the FDA more power and requiring 1902 ported by the National Woman’s Party, but makes The Biologics Control Act to ensure pu- women's shelter and the nation’s counseling, and support to victims refused to approve thalidomide, a manufacturers to disclose side rity and safety of serums, vaccines, and products little progress. first hospital-based Rape Treatment of domestic violence and women drug that was later proven to cause effects. used to prevent or treat diseases in humans. Center, her extensive work also battling substance abuse and other 1940-1980 The ERA is included in the severe birth defects. Her research 1906 Food and Drugs Act prohibits inter- Republican Party platform, but many Democrats In 1962 includes convincing National personal crises. Similarly, she and commitment to rigorous state commerce in misbranded and adulterated and labor organizers oppose it believing it would published a front-page article Airlines to offer maternity leave to created the nation’s first hospital- scientific evidence contributed to foods, drinks and drugs. weaken protections for working-class women. proclaiming Kelsey a “heroine” (instead of firing) pregnant flight based Rape Treatment Center at improvements in FDA oversight of 1906 The Meat Inspection Act to deal with Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower is the first for keeping a dangerous drug attendants, lobbying for passage Women, Bolton created and was drug testing. Dakota, and earned her M.D. from the unsanitary and poisonous conditions of the in 1974. The center became a model president to publicly support the ERA. off the market. That same year, meat packing industry. of the Equal Rights Amendment the first president of the Miami- U of C in 1950. for other programs and has helped Kelsey started her career in President Kennedy honored her (ERA), and persuading the National Dade chapter and served as 1970 Congressional hearings begin on ERA. 1912 Sherley Amendment prohibits false more than 42,000 sexual assault pharmacology in the 1930s when Kelsey’s first assignment when hired with the Distinguished Civilian Oceanic and Atmospheric national Vice President in 1968. 1972 The ERA passes Congress with the nec- therapeutic claims with after many teething and victims of all ages. a (U of C) as an FDA medical officer in 1960 Service Medal, the highest honor colicky babies die from morphine overdose. Administration to name hurricanes The following year she convinced essary 2/3 majority, but needing 3/4 of the state professor hired her assuming she was to review the drug thalidomide after both women and men. legislatures to ratify it. awarded a civilian in the U.S. 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear emergency. local department stores to abandon Bolton led the effort to create the was a man. Her research with this for market in the U.S. Already Kelsey continued her work at FDA distributes nearly a quarter million bottles Inspired by and the practice of offering men-only Women’s Park in Miami, which 1972-1983 Women’s rights groups lobby professor led to passage of the widely used in Europe, Kelsey the FDA until her retirement in of potassium iodide to protect those threatened compelled by women’s under- sections in their restaurants. Bolton opened in 1992 as the first outdoor for ERA ratification; conservatives lobby against, Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic repeatedly refused to approve the 2005 at age 91. In 2010 the FDA with thyroid cancer if exposed to radiation. fearing it will hurt traditional gender roles. representation in decision-making, lobbied for passage of the ERA, space in the nation honoring past Act of 1938. Kelsey earned her drug because of insufficient proof established the Frances Kelsey 1982 Tamper-resistant Packing Regulations Bolton began her determined convincing U.S. Senator Birch and present women leaders. For 1982 The ERA deadline is reached; the Ph.D. in 1938 from U of C, taught of safety. In 1961, thalidomide was Award, an annual award given to a issued by FDA to prevent poisonings such as activism in the 1950s. Among Bayh to hold the first ERA hearings nearly 60 years Bolton has advanced ERA falls three states short of ratification to the pharmacology for 20 years at both linked to thousands of children in staff member for their commitment deaths from cyanide placed in Tylenol capsules. the first Florida women to join before Congress in 1970. She women’s rights at the local, state, Constitution. U of C and the University of South Europe and Canada being born to scientific rigor. 1985 AIDS test for blood approved by FDA the National Organization for and others successfully petitioned and national levels. in its first major action to protect patients from infected donors.

Lesbian History in on the steering committee of Old rights issue. Votaw played key Arden Eversmeyer United Nations Carmen Delgado Votaw roles in the Decade for Women the U.S. Lesbians Organizing for Change, a Decade for Women national network of women over 60 (1935 – Present) and the first United Nations World (1931 – Present) Conference on Women. 1923 Elsa Gidlow’s “On a Grey Thread” is the confronting ageism and improving International Women’s The Old Lesbian Oral The rise of second wave feminism sparked a first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the U.S. the lives of lesbians everywhere. Rights Activist Votaw was the first Hispanic Herstory Project Founder United Nations (UN) commitment to women’s 1939 Frances V. Rummell’s “Diana: a Strange woman to serve as a Congressional In 1998 Eversmeyer founded the rights. Their continuing efforts seek to deepen Autobiography” is the first explicitly lesbian Carmen Delgado Votaw is a leading Chief of Staff. She also worked autobiography. Arden Eversmeyer founded both Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project the legal advancements in women’s equality, advocate for women’s rights both for the Girl Scouts of the USA, Lesbians Over Age Fifty and the Old to gather the life stories of lesbians bring similar advancements to the developing 1947-1948 “Vice Versa” is the first Ameri- nationally and internationally. the United Way of America, the can lesbian magazine. Lesbian Oral Herstory Project. Her born in the early decades of the 20th world, and promote women’s role in interna- She served on the International Alliance for Children and Families, 1940s-2011 Thousands of lesbians serve ongoing efforts ensure that older century. Project volunteers have tional economic development. Women’s Year Commission, and led the Public Members in all branches of the U.S. military despite an lesbians have access to community documented over 320 diverse life collaborated with all United institutional ban on homosexual service. resources and that their unique life stories recording the sacrifices and Association of the Foreign Service Nations Conferences on Women, 1952 “Spring Fire” and “The Price of Salt” are stories are recorded and celebrated. obstacles faced by lesbians of that until 2012. She wrote “Puerto and significantly influenced the among the first lesbian pulp fiction novels. era. The collection is now archived, Rican Women,” a bilingual Eversmeyer realized and accepted advancement of women in Latin women’s history book, and 1955 The Daughters of Bilitis is founded, fuel- her love for women while still a at Sam Houston University. She and continues to grow, as part of the ing a national lesbian rights movement. America. received the Veteran Feminists of teenager. But, because it was a time worked in Texas public schools as prestigious Sophia Smith Collection Rican Women helped strengthen 1969 Lesbian drag king Storme DeLarverie is Born and raised in Puerto Rico and America Medal of Honor in 1999. when women suspected of being both an educator and counselor for at Smith College. women’s organizations in Latin clubbed by police leading to a riot at the Stonewall over 30 years. inspired to fight for social justice America. Receiving two presidential Inn in New York. lesbians were routinely expelled After being with her second partner, Carmen Votaw’s influence in the by Martin Luther King Jr. and the appointments, Votaw was a member advancement of Latin American 1971 The National Organization for Women from college and fired from their After Tommie’s death in 1985, Charlotte, more than 25 years, the 1975 First UN World Conference on Women 1963 March on Washington, she of the International Women’s Year women is demonstrated by the incorporates lesbian rights into its agenda. jobs, she led a very closeted life. Eversmeyer began to volunteer couple legally married in California. takes place in Mexico City has worked for over 50 years for Commission in 1975 and Co-Chair creation of women’s bureaus, 1985 Deborah Brin is ordained the first She met her first partner, Tommie, openly for lesbian rights. She Today Arden Eversmeyer is proud to the betterment of women, children, of the National Advisory Committee the growing number of women openly lesbian Jewish rabbi. early in her career and they were started Lesbians Over Age Fifty live in a time when she can be her 1980 Second World Conference on Women Latinos, and minorities throughout for Women in 1978. As president in political appointments, 1989 OLOC, Old Lesbians Organizing for together 33 years. in 1987 to encourage a safe true self with acquaintances, friends, held in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1985 Third World Conference on Women, the world. of Inter-American Commission of and the large number of Latin Change, utilizing the unique experiences of Lesbi- Eversmeyer graduated from Texas environment, meeting places, and family, medical professionals, and ans at least 60 years of age held in Nairobi, Kenya Votaw’s early 1970s leadership roles Women of the Organization of American countries that signed State College for Women in 1951 a social network for mid-life and everyone. 1998 Tammy Baldwin is elected the first 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in the League of Women Voters American States from 1978 to 1980 and ratified the UN Convention and completed graduate work older lesbians. She also served openly lesbian U.S. Congresswoman. held in Beijing, China Overseas Education Fund and the she made the status of women in on the Elimination of all Forms of National Conference of Puerto the Americas a prominent human Discrimination Against Women.

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Ann Lewis Celebrating Women of Character, TammyCourage Duckworth and Commitment public policy Vice President for Women Who Made before Congress about caring American Women (1937- Present) Planned Parenthood, and political History Campaigning (1968 - Present) for our veterans and wounded Serving in Combat Women’s Rights Organizer director for the Democratic Member of Congress warriors. for President 18th and 19th centuries and Women’s History National Committee. Over the and Iraq War Veteran Ann Lewis worked in six presidential cam- Duckworth became Director A few brave women fight in the army Advocate next 30 years Lewis used her disguised as men. paigns, but the Hillary Rodham Clinton Cam- of the Illinois Department of communication and political Tammy Duckworth, U.S. 1775-83 Revolutionary War, Deborah paign was the first in which she campaigned Veterans Affairs in 2006, where Ann Lewis is a leader of progressive skills in six different Presidential Representative from Illinois, Iraq Sampson Gannett joins the Continental Army. campaigns and was a Senior for a woman to be President. she developed a tax credit for 1846-48 Mexican War, Elizabeth Newcom political reform focusing on War veteran and former Assistant employers who hired veterans, Advisor in ’s 2008 1872 was the first joins the Missouri Voluntary Infantry. the importance of personal Secretary of Veterans Affairs, is the 1861-65 Civil War, Sarah Emma Edmonds President Campaign. woman to run for President in the U.S. established a crisis hotline, and engagement, social justice and first disabled woman elected to the worked to improve veterans’ and former slave Cathay Williams join the Union women’s rights. She served as a Her advocacy for women’s history 1884 Belva Lockwood was the first House of Representatives. She has Army. Mollie Bean and Mary and Molly Bell join access to housing and health the Confederate Army. White House Communications resulted in her appointments woman to have a full-scale national campaign built a strong record advocating for President. care. In 2009 she was appointed Early to mid 20th century Director, is a national commentator in 1998 as Co-Chair of the and implementing improvements to Assistant Secretary of Veterans Non-combat service units are opened to women. 1964 (R) was on public policy, and champions President’s Commission on veteran’s services. Affairs where she led an initiative Women serve in all military branches, but with- the recognition of women’s history. the Celebration of Women in the first woman to have her name placed in out combat experience, their career advance- Political Caucus, Lewis discovered nomination for President at a major political Duckworth attended the University Guard, was deployed to Iraq as a to end homelessness among ment is limited. American History, and in 2000 Ann Frank Lewis grew up in a the parallels between the 20th party’s convention. of Hawaii and earned a Masters of Blackhawk helicopter pilot. She veterans, created the Office of 1989 Two women receive Air Medals for a as Co-Chair of the Women’s combat mission. Jewish family who witnessed century women’s movement and Arts in International Affairs from was one of the first Army women Online Communications, and Progress Commission, established 1972 (D) was the first Af- 1991-93 Congress repeals laws prohibiting the Holocaust and its aftermath. the American Woman Suffrage rican America woman to have her name placed The George Washington University. to fly combat missions during worked to address the unique by Congress to report on women’s women from flying in combat and serving on Growing up with the name Ann Movement. This discovery helped in nomination for President at a national Fluent in Thai, she worked toward Operation Iraqi Freedom. On challenges faced by Native combat ships. historical sites. Frank, she says “my parents, who her recognize effective strategies convention, and she won 152 delegates. a Ph.D. in Political Science at November 12, 2004 her helicopter American and female veterans. 1994 Defense Department bans women from most other combat roles. talked often about current events, and set a framework for her future Ann Lewis continues to call for 1972 (D) was the first Asian Northern Illinois University, where was hit by an RPG bomb. In the In 2012 Tammy Duckworth taught me how fortunate we were work. she also worked at the School of 1998 First woman fighter pilot delivers mis- an active and engaged America American to seek nomination as President and explosion Duckworth lost her legs (a Democrat) was elected to siles and bombs in combat. to live in a democracy, where we Nursing researching public health Lewis learned the art of negotiating working with allies around the her name was placed on the Oregon primary and partial use of her right arm and Congress, where she continues to 1998 Navy assigns first five women combat- could choose our leaders. I would ballot. and environmental causes of and the importance of getting the world to help build a safe and was subsequently awarded a Purple advocate for practical solutions to ant commanders. never take our political rights for secure future that must include 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) was the cancer. Heart. She spent the next year rebuild our economy and ensure 2005 First woman awarded the Silver Star message out through her work for combat action. granted.” empowering women. first female candidate to place second in the recovering and became an advocate with a network of politically active In 2004 Duckworth, a member that every American has a chance 2013 nomination of a major party for President by Defense Department removes bans on In the early 1970s, as part of the women. She served as Chief of Staff of the Illinois Army National for her fellow soldiers, testifying to achieve the American Dream. women in combat. winning the primaries in 21 states. newly formed National Women’s to Senator Barbara A. Mikulski,

Human Trafficking in resources to non-resident trafficking Female Civil Rights Lisa Taylor of disability law, she represents Jaida Im victims. Services include individual victims of HIV discrimination and the United States Attorneys Who Helped (1974-Present) case management with needed autistic children denied admission to Human trafficking is the trade of persons for the (1937- Present) End Discrimination Civil Rights Attorney resources such as legal, medical, schools. Lisa also monitored reports purpose of exploitation including sexual exploita- Advocate for Survivors psychological, and social services to Dovey Johnson Roundtree of voter suppression and developed tion and forced labor (in agriculture, domestic of Human Trafficking (1914-present) won a landmark bus desegrega- Lisa Taylor, a leading civil rights help each woman, when possible, an intake process for post-September service, construction, and sweatshops). tion case before the Interstate Commerce Commis- trial attorney, has worked for over reunite with her family, learn English, 11 backlash discrimination Jaida Im founded Freedom House, sion (1955). twelve years to ensure that civil complaints. Human trafficking is illegal. The Trafficking Victims the first residential shelter for or find a job and become financially rights laws are enforced around Protection Act of 2000 enhanced penalties and of- stable. In just over three years, Judith Pomarlen Vladeck Taylor has also chaired the DOJ’s adult female survivors of human (1923-2007), labor lawyer and civil rights advo- the country. Working with the fered new protections including T Visas for victims. Freedom House has served more trafficking, in Northern California cate, helped set legal precedents against sex and Department of Justice (DOJ), Taylor Association of Black Attorneys, than 100 women. age discrimination. focuses primarily on educational which encourages diversity and California, Texas, New York & Florida are the states in 2010. Under her direction, ensures that qualified Black attorneys with the highest number trafficking cases, occur- the program offers holistic In fall 2013, Freedom House opened and disability law and shows an Catherine Roraback (1920-2007) are considered for U.S. Attorney ring mostly in large international hubs. case management, counseling, The Nest to serve girls ages 12-17. argued the Griswold v. Connecticut case before the unwavering commitment to ending educational resources, and job Offering beds to six girls and a live- U.S. Supreme Court (1965) resulting in the legal- discrimination and promoting positions. As an advisor to the on their rights, and published a Trafficking victims are both U.S. citizens and im- training for victims of abduction local shelter to meet the specific in staff, The Nest is one of the very ization of birth control in the state and establish- equality and justice. Consumer Financial Protection migrants, (legal and illegal). needs of trafficking victims, she felt ing the legal right to privacy. Public Interest Employment Guide, Bureau she helped create an office and enslavement. Jaida opened an few shelters in the U.S. dedicated Taylor’s strong commitment began compelled to make a difference. Im encouraging other law students to charged with providing more additional shelter for girls in fall to serving youth trafficking victims. Graciela Olivarez (1928-1987) the first while a student at College of the Between 14,500 and 17,500 people (mostly left her 20-year career as a health pursue careers serving the public economic opportunities for women. 2013. Like The Monarch, The Nest offers woman and first Latina to graduate from Notre Holy Cross and continued at the women and children) are trafficked to the U.S. care professional to found the non- Dame Law School (1970), and served as chair of interest. Lisa Taylor became a lawyer out of annually. Im first became aware of the individualized case management University of Georgia School of profit organization Freedom House. the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educa- Since joining the DOJ in 2001 a strong desire to serve those who tragedy of human trafficking — and services to the girls while also Law. Taylor was in Naval ROTC After much fundraising, in August tion Fund. Taylor has won settlements could not serve themselves. Through Persons trafficked to the U.S. are mostly from Thai- modern day slavery — and its offering academic and recreational as a student and served as an 2010 the organization was able to in major cases addressing the her work as a civil rights attorney land, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Haiti, Hondu- global and local (San Francisco programs. Jaida Im’s core goal in Martha Fineman (1943-present) is a officer aboard the USS Tarawa, ras, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic. purchase and open a shelter house leading scholar in feminist jurisprudence. failure of schools with majority- and her professional volunteer Bay Area) impacts in 2009. the foundation of this new shelter is where she developed the ship’s named The Monarch. black students to offer advanced service Taylor works to ensure Shocked to learn that trafficking that it provides a space to help girls Margo Schlanger (1967-present) first program to address sexual Factors leading to trafficking include poverty, glo- placement courses and the over- that more Americans live free of was taking place in her own The Monarch serves as a home recapture their interrupted youth in a founded the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse harassment. During law school balization, prostitution & government corruption. identification of black students discrimination. community and that there was no to eight women and also offers loving family setting. (2005) , served as the Officer for Civil Rights and she led the Mothers in Jail project, Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland educating incarcerated mothers in special education. In the field Security from 2010-2012.

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