Noor Inayat Khan – Women’s History Month, Day 10
Read more: BBC New York Times
Rigoberta Menchu – Women’s History Month Day 9
Read more: Nobel Prize Brittanica
Anna May Wong – Women’s History Month Day 8
Learn more about Anna May Wong: TCM Notable Biographies Wikipedia
Barbara Jordan – Women’s History Month Day 7
Learn all about Barbara: Britannica Biography US House of Representatives
Dorothea Dix – Women’s History Month Day 6
Dorothea Dix was born in Maine in 1802. Her father was Methodist minister who spent a lot of time on the road, leaving Dorothea at home with her mother and three younger siblings. While she wasn’t alone, the care for her siblings often fell to her as her […]
Berta Caceres – Women’s History Month Day 5
Berta Caceres was born into a time of civil unrest in her country. She was a member of the Lenca people in La Esperanza in southwestern Honduras, the predominant indigenous group in that area. Her mother, Austra Flores, served as her first role model for activism. Austra served […]
Kate Gleason – Women’s History Month Day 4
Today our incredible woman holds the title of the first female engineer. In a time when engineering schools wouldn’t admit women, Kate Gleason found a way. Even better, Kate was from our very own Rochester. Born Catherine Anselm Gleason, Kate was born into a mechanical family. Her father […]
Ida B. Wells – Women’s History Month Day 2
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Mississippi when the Civil War was in its infancy. In the early years of her life, she and her family were freed after the war and then became active in Reconstruction Era politics. Taught to value education, Ida went to […]
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