Women's History Events,August 2014
Post date: Aug 16, 2014 9:48:07 PM
• August 6, 1965 – The Voting Rights Act outlaws the discriminatory literacy tests that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting. Suffrage is finally fully extended to African American women
• August 8, 1969 - Executive order 11478 issued by President Nixon requires each federal department and agency to establish
and maintain an affirmative action program of equal employment opportunity for civilian employees and applicants
• August 9, 1995 - Roberta Cooper Ramo becomes the first woman to hold the office of president of the American Bar
Association
• August 10, 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second woman and 107th Justice to serve on the US Supreme Court
• August 12, 1972 - Wendy Rue founds the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), the largest businesswomen's organization in the US
• August 14, 1986 - Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper retires from active duty in the US Navy. A pioneering computer scientist and inventor of the computer language COBOL, she was the oldest officer still on active duty at the time of her retirement
• August 23, 1902 - Fanny Farmer opens the "School of Cookery" in Boston, MA
• August 26, 1920 - The 19th Amendment of the US Constitution is ratified granting women the right to vote
Celebrate Women’s Equality Day
• August 26, 1970 - Betty Friedan leads a nationwide protest called the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City on the fiftieth anniversary of women's suffrage
• August 26, 1971 - The first "Women's Equality Day," initiated by Representative Bella Abzug, is established by Presidential Proclamation and reaffirmed annually
• August 28, 1963 - More than 250,000 gather for a march on Washington, DC, and listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous
"I Have a Dream" speech
• August 30, 1984 - Judith A. Resnick is the second US woman in space, traveling on the first flight of the space shuttle Discovery
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