02-17-95 Women of Achievement and Herstory

         We have received several requests lately for permission to repost
Women of Achievement and Herstory on other on-line systems.  Because it
is often a burden for the middle person, I will post directly if given
specific directions.  This offer includes GEnie and AOL, among others. 
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         If you would like to get connected to women and women's issues by
snail mail coast-to-coast, write the National Women's Mailing List, PO Box
68, Jenner, CA 95450. Send SASE.  
         You will be sent a registration form by which you can determine
what kind of organization and/or individuals can mail to you.  The topics
consist of political candidates, women's culture, recreation/sports,
legal/political, health, education, violence against women, workplace issues,
lesbians, and women of color.  Some of the stuff is strictly advertising, but
there's a lot of information on women's literary and art journals, women's
publishing houses, producers of women's music, announcements of spiritual
retreats, national women's studies programs, etc.

02-17 Anniversaries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

         B. 02-17-1755, Catherine Littlefield Greene, probably the actual
inventor of the cotton gin. At the very least had the detailed idea of how
it worked but gave it to hangabout Eli Whitney because at the time women
didn't concern themselves with such things - and were not allowed to
apply for patents.

         B. 02-17-1888, Dorothy Kenyon, attorney and longtime director of the
ACLU, member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, opposed any
women's equal rights amendment, opining women needed special legislation.

         B. 02-17-1902, Mary Josephine Shelly, US Air Force colonel who
commanded the women in the Air Force during the Korean conflict.

         B. 02-17-1902, Marian Anderson, described as the greatest voice of
the 20th century. First woman of color to sing with the Metropolitan Opera.
She sang with the major orchestras and opera companies of the world and
performed before major heads of state.  She was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963. In 1939 when the Daughters of American
Revolution (DAR) refused to allow her to sing in their hall because of her
race, Eleanor Roosevelt, among others, quit the organization and organized
an outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial instead. Since the event the
DAR has announced that the "refusal" was not a refusal, claiming the hall
had been rented for an unspecified, other event. The historical revisionism
of the 1939 concert also extends to who sponsored the Lincoln Memorial
event.  

Quotes du jour -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

         "While the general principles of the Bible are in favor of the most
enlarged freedom and equality of the race, isolated texts have been used
to block the wheels of progress in all periods; thus bigots have defended
capital punishment, intemperance, slavery, polygamy, and the subjection of
women.  The creeds of all nations make obedience to man the cornerstone
of (women's) religious character.  Fortunately, however, more liberal minds
are now giving us higher and purer expositions of the scriptures."
                  -- Volume 1, History of Woman Suffrage, edited and written by

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Josyln Gage. 1881.
         "No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her
body.  No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously
whether she will or will not be a mother."
                  -- Margaret Sanger, 1920

         >> (C) 1995 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR
71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with
copyright notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there weren't
notable and effective women throughout history.  They were always there,
but historians failed to note them in our histories so that each generation
of women has had to reinvent themselves.