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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, 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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#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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#OnThisDay, 19 Oct 1944, President Roosevelt announces Black women can join WAVES – the US Navy's women's service.

Lt Harriet Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills, pictured, become the first Black women officers a couple of months later.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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Lt Pickens receiving a salute from Ensign Wills

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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, 25 Jan 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrives back in New York to huge crowds, becoming the first *person* to circumnavigate the world in under 80 days (she took 72).

Read all about Nellie and the 'stunt girl' reporters who made front page news in the 1880s-90s in our new blog post here: https://carvehername.org.uk/nellie-bly-stunt-girl-reporters/

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

posed photo of Nellie Bly in her travelling outfit. She's a white woman with dark hair, wearing a full length bold check coat and raising her cap.

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#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.

‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital' got a 71.9% audience share with 44 million viewers. Eisenhower's inauguration got 29 million.

#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History #TelevisionHistory #Histodons

Lucille Ball as Lucy sitting on a sofa knitting. She is very very pregnant. Real life and screen husband Desi Arnez is sitting on the arm of a chair looking mildly panicked. Ball is white, Arnez is Latino.

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#OnThisDay, 26 Jan 1961, Dr Janet Travell is appointed as the Physician to the President of the USA. The role includes being the director of the White House Medical Unit. Travell was the first woman to hold the post.

She specialised in the treatment of skeletal muscle pain, and developed the ice spray still in use in sports medicine today.

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

Dr. Janet Travell briefing the press in the White House. She is a white woman with white or blond 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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"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

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

Dr Mary Edwards Walker with her medal. She is a white woman with dark hair. She's wearing a dress and looking miserable about it.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is wearing a wing collar shirt with a cravat, a heavy overcoat and a top hat. She is a white woman with white hair.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is wearing a trouser suit, overcoat and scarf, and carrying a top hat. She is a white woman with white hair.

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#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.

Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.

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

Photo of Ella Baker speaking at a microphone. She is a black woman wearing sunglasses.

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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, 19 Apr 1967, Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

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

Kathrine Switzer running along a road in a grey tracksuit. She is a white woman with dark hair. There are several other men running alongside her, also in running gear. They are protecting her from a man in a blazer who is attempting to rip off the number pinned to her back.

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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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What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?

This story involves Patrick Henry, Lord Dunsmore a Royal Governor, and the surprising inaction of George Washington

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-spurred-south-join-american-revolution-180986240/

Books about the American Revolution at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=American+Revolution&submit_search=Search

#history #americanhistory

Painting of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart

"Gilbert Stuart portrayed George Washington several times in this stately, full-length portrait format known as the Grand Manner, initially reserved for royalty. In this case, he used European models for the setting and figure, and then adapted the iconography for an American subject. Standing in the classical pose of an orator (with arm extended), Washington appears in formal civilian clothing, but holds a sword that recalls his military achievements and suggests the might of his presidency. The portrait includes other specifically American details. For example, the table leg at left is carved with the American eagle and fasces (thirteen bundled rods symbolizing the unification of the original colonies), and the chair back at right contains an oval medallion with the Stars and Stripes. The books underneath the table, including one titled The Constitution and Laws of the United States, refer to American history and politics. Stuart also added a rainbow in the distant background as a symbol of the peace after the storm of the Revolution." - from Internet Archive

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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

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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