NWHP 2013

Post date: Jul 3, 2013 11:10:59 PM

July Women's History Events

    • 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 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 * Read An Overt Act for Posterity: Suffragists and the Fourth of July on our blog.

    • 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 and Women's Equality Day Resources

    • July 20, 1942 - The first class of Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Please share this information with your networks, students, and colleagues.

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