03-01-1995 Women of Achievement and Herstory - March is Women's History
Month ...

      I have a full year Calendar of Events and Women's Anniversaries
available for school or educational use.  
      Email irenestuber@delphi.com and in the SUBJECT LINE, write - Send
Women's Herstory Calendar.
      It is sent in three parts and contains one listing for each day of the
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it out and costly.

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      In 1912, a female picket, Anne Lo Pizzo is shot and killed during a
textile workers strike to protest the reduction of wages.
      On September 14, 1929 Ella May Wiggins, widowed mother of five and
a labor balladeer, is slain by vigilantes while en route to a meeting for
strikers in Gastonia, North Carolina.
      In 1930, Ann Burlak, a secretary of the National Textile Workers'
Union, is arrested in Atlanta for calling a meeting of black and white
workers.
      In 1931, Clara Holden, National Textile Workers' Union organizer is
abducted and beaten by vigilantes in Greenville, South Carolina.

03-01 Anniversaries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 

      E. 03-01, feast of Juno who in the basic religion of Rome is chief
goddess and female equal of Jupiter. As time went on her role became more
and more subject to Jupiter.  Juno is the embodiment of Europa, the first
of the old gods that predated the Greek gods. 

      E. 03-01-1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for
witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts

      E. 03-01-1909, the University of Minnesota establishes the first
university level school of nursing.  Bertha Erdmann is named director.

      E. 03-01-1912, Isabella Goodwin becomes the first woman detective
with the New York City police department.

      E. 03-01-1966, Venera 3 is the first NASA probe to land on Venus.

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

      "Remember the Ladies", she writes, "and be more generous and
favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power
into the hands of Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they
could."  These are hardly "wooing words" and Abigail Adams continues: "If
particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined
to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws which
we have no voice, or Representation."
    From Adams"s statement it seems that the ladies in 1776 have been
talking together, that they are not at all pleased with existing conditions,
and that there will be trouble if this new opportunity for formulating new
laws (on the principle of "No taxation without Representation") is not
taken. As their spokesperson, Abigail Adams anticipates Mary
Wollstonecraft"s demand (writing in England in 1792) that what constitutes
justice for men also applies to women. The claim for "individual liberty",
formulated by men in relation to themselves, is being generalized to women,
by women, using the arguments that men provided.
      (Spender goes on to question how many other women might have
been writing similar statements about their freedom?)
      This is one of the problems of "information" in the private realm.
But there can be no doubt that the concept of "women"s rights" was in
the air. Abigail Adams did not find it necessary to offer (her friend) Mercy
Otis Warren any explanation of the "List of Female Grievances" and she
refers to the "Ladies", implying that her ideas were not confined to
herself, or to her friends.      
            -- Dale Spender in Women of Ideas and What men have done
to them, pp 114-115.


      (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.