03-02-1995 Women of Achievement and Herstory

      Event 03-02-1913: "Eight thousand women with suffrage banners
flying paraded along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue on March 3, 1913,
the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, to make the incoming
president and congress aware of their cause.
      "It was a parade that turned into a confrontation and near riot.
Police had given a permit for it, but they did little to protect the women
when angry men began attacking the marchers.
      "Women were slapped, tripped, spat upon, pelted with burning cigar
stubs, had banners torn from their hands. Their hats were pulled off, their
clothing was ripped, and some were knocked to the ground and trampled.
Federal troops had to be called in from nearby Fort Meyer. The soldiers
cleared the streets, controlled the mob, and finally restored order, and the
somewhat disheveled women carried on with the parade that got them a lot
more front-page attention than they had expected."
      -- So wrote Bill Severn in _The Right To Vote_, New York: Ives
Washburn, 1972.  
      The next day, March 3, 1913 was supposed to be Woodrow Wilson's
day, when he was inaugurated president of the United States but the
parade rioting took away a great deal of his glory.
      The idea of protest parades have been awarded by bad scholarship
of the "second wave of femininism" adherents to Alice Paul, but in reality
the idea of protest parades was that of Harriet Stanton Blatch, daughter
of suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Blatch organized the first
women's suffrage protest parade in 1910. A protest parade held in
Philadelphia before the Civil War by women in the abolitionist movement
probably inspired her. Her mother probably spoke of it. Blatch, after
traveling to England, returned and joined her organization with that of
Paul and Burns and thus the Paul organization took over the idea.

03-02 Anniversaries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

      Event: 03-02-1942, The US Department of War recommends Ford Motor
Company hire up to 15,000 *women* workers at the Willow Run factory
which had, at the time, 28 female employees.  It was to aid the war
economy since so many men had been drafted. 

      B. 03-02-1950, Karen Carpenter, with brother who was the pianist and
back up vocalist formed the Carpenters, a highly successful pop duo.  She
died in 1983 from anorexia nervosa.  Had 19 hits during the 1970's
including _Close to You_, _We've Only Just Begun_ and _Please Mr.
Postman_.

      Event 03-02-1973: Women began pilot training for the US Navy.  First
women received their wings February 18, 1975.

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

      "One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated
equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way that you
treat a man."
            -- Marlo Thomas 

      "We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people,
including women, believe that a woman belongs - and wants to belong -
exclusively in the home . . . . The world cannot afford the loss of the
talents of half its people if we are to solve the many problems which beset
us."
            -- Rosalyn Yalow, second woman to win the Nobel Prize for
medicine in accepting the award.


(C) 1995 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Spring 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.