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#OnThisDay, 18 Aug 1920, women in the US gain the right to vote when the 19th amendment is ratified by Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify it.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Alice Paul standing on a balcony with a flag showing a star for each state that has ratified the amendment. A group of women stand below it. Everyone is white.

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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in a dress in around 1863, wearing the medal. She is a white woman with dark hair tied back.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is a white woman with white hair wearing trousers, a frock coat and a topper. She still has the medal on the breast of her coat.

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#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.

The first woman to sit in the Senate for more than a day, she'd been selected by the party on the understanding that she would serve out her late husband's term and not stand for re-election in 1932.

Instead she stood again, and remained a Senator until 1945.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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black and white photo of Hattie Wyatt Caraway. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Newsclipping. Headline: She drank her ale at the bar. Subheading: Girl Cyclist in Rahway Amazed Loungers in Chamberlain's. Story then tells how the woman ordered and drank a beer straight from the bottle whilst standing at the bar, to the amazement of the men in there.

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#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully lands in Newark, New Jersey, to become the first woman to fly solo across the USA.

Earhart records a series of first flights by a woman, before disappearing during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

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The Zinn Ed Project welcomes historian #NedBlackhawk to discuss his book #TheRediscoveryOfAmerica: #NativePeoples and the Unmaking of #USHistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdWVO4vwDjM

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #AmericanRevolution #SevenYearsWar #colonialism #colonialViolence #decolonialStudies #books @bookstodon

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#OnThisDay, 11 Oct 1922, Alaska P Davidson becomes the first woman to be an FBI Special Agent. She was employed to focus on the trafficking of women across state lines.

J Edgar Hoover requests her resignation, along with her colleagues Jessie Duckstein and Lenore Houston, in 1924. The FBI does not appoint another woman as a Special Agent until 1972.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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photo of Alaska P Davidson. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...

#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.

Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons

Cover of the album, showing the members of the Supremes dancing

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“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Mugshot of Rosa Parks after her arrest. She is a black woman with glasses.

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#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Jeanette Rankin standing in front of the dome of the US Capitol on a windy day. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.

In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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Ida B Wells in the 1920s. She is a Black woman with greying hair.

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#GiftArticle

Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
 Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow

#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m

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How Dreams of Buried Pirate Treasure Enticed Americans to Flock to Florida During the Roaring Twenties

by Greg Daugherty

One of the people involved was the newsman Ben Hecht.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-dreams-of-buried-pirate-treasure-enticed-americans-to-flock-to-florida-during-the-roaring-twenties-180986376/

Ben Hecht at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2616

Boom Time Miami: Downtown by Gleason Waite Romer (1925)

#history #americanhistory

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#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Annie Jump Cannon sat at a desk. She is clearly not a fan of a clear desk policy as it's messy with papers and open drawers. She is a white woman with pale hair.

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"I've never worked so hard in my life than when I was US Treasurer. I knew I had to make good on behalf of American women."

#OnThisDay, 3 Jun 1949, Georgia Neese Clark Gray becomes the first woman to be Treasurer of the USA.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Photo of Georgia Neese Gray. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a tweed suit.

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#OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

Camilla Williams as Cio-Cio San in Madame Butterfly, along with another singer. Both are dressed in kimonos.

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#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #MaryAnnettePember, national correspondent for ICT News, and author of #MedicineRiver: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of #IndianBoardingSchools

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-3-2025/

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #NativeResidentialSchools #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #memoirs #books @histodons @bookstodon

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#OnThisDay, 10 Jun 1963, the US President signed the Equal Pay Act into law, witnessed by members of the American Association of University Women. [photo JFK Library]

Obviously, just because a law exists, doesn't mean pay is now equal.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

John F Kennedy seated in the Oval office, holding a pen. Thirteen women are standing around him. Twelve are white, and one is black. Someone must have told a good joke as everyone is smiling or laughing.

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“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

#OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

#HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Lillian Hellman in a posed photo with a manual typewriter as if writing her letter to HUAC. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1919, the US Senate approved the 19th amendment, in theory granting all women the right to vote. It was ratified in August 1920.

But it took until 1965 to lift state level laws that denied many women their rights.
More here: https://www.neh.gov/article/winning-vote-divided-movement-brought-about-nineteenth-amendment

#History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1972, civil rights activist Angela Davis is acquitted in a trial over her alleged involvement in the 1970 Marin County Civic Centre attack.

Davis had been prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, after guns she owned were used in the attack. The all-white jury cleared her of all charges.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Angela Davis in the early 1970s. She is a black woman with a large 'fro, wearing denims.

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“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”

#OnThisDay, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Vivian Malone walking through a registration hall. Behind her is a long table with a row of white people watching her. She is a black woman wearing a white dress.

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"The story of how the #UnitesStates identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. In #AmericaAmérica #GregGrandin vividly demonstrates that the nation’s unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south toward #LatinAmerica"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAko46HvZSQ

#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #books @bookstodon @histodons

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"You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we won't take more than our pint'll hold."

#OnThisDay, 29 May 1851, Sojourner Truth addresses the Woman's Rights Convention in Ohio.

Her speech is commonly known as 'ain't I a woman' although that comes from a dubious transcript that uses racial tropes.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Photo of Sojourner taken around 15 years after the speech. She is an older black woman wearing a white cap and glasses.

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#OnThisDay, 12 Jun 1948, the Womens Armed Services Integration Act is signed by US President Truman, allowing women to serve in the military outside wartime.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

President Truman sat in the Oval Office with women from the armed forces standing behind him. Everybody appears to be white.

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