July 2014, Women Highlights In US Women History
Post date: Jul 10, 2014 8:35:16 PM
July 2, 1979 - The Susan B. Anthony dollar is released
• July 2, 1937 - Amelia Earhart's plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island
• July 2, 1964 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act; Title VII prohibits sex discrimination in employment
• July 4, 1876 - Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall to present the Vice President with the "Declaration of the Rights of Women" written by Matilda Joselyn Gage
• July 6, 1957 - Althea Gibson is the first African American woman player to win a Wimbledon title in women's tennis singles
• July 7, 1981 - President Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman Supreme Court Justice?
• July 12, 1984 - Representative Geraldine Ferraro (D-New York) is chosen as the first female to run for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket with Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota)
• July 14, 1917 - 16 women from the National Women's Party were arrested while picketing the White House demanding universal women's suffrage; they were charged with obstructing traffic
• July 19-20, 1848 - The Seneca Falls Convention, the country's first women's rights convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York Women's Rights Movement
• July 20, 1942 - The first class of Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA
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