What every American should know about women's history : 200 events that shaped our destiny
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Holbrook, Mass. : Bob Adams, Inc., ©1994.
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| Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 305.4 Lunardini | On Shelf |
| Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 305.409 LUN | On Shelf |
Table of Contents
1607: the first European women arrive at the Jamestown Colony
1638: Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1650: Anne Bradstreet, earliest American poet, publishes her first poem
1692: Salem Witch Trials
1740: Eliza Lucas Pinckney begins managing her father's plantation
1769-70: The Daughters of Liberty support the nonimportation agreement
1773: Phillis Wheatley's poetry becomes the first book by a Black American
1776: Abigail Adams admonishes John to "remember the ladies"
1783: New Jersey women vote under the terms of a state statute
1790: Judith Sargent Stevens Murray argues for equal education for women
1792: Mary Wollenstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women is first published in America
1818: Emma Willard asks for taxpayer support to educate females
1826: the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance is founded
1829: Fanny Wright becomes the first female public speaker in America
1829: Anne Royall, publisher and writer, is convicted of slander
1830: The first book advocating birth control is published in the United States
1832: Fanny Kemble, the brilliant English actress, makes her American debut in New York
1833: Oberlin is founded as America's first coeducational college
1833: Prudence Crandall opens a school for African-American girls
1833: the female Anti-slavery Society of Philadelphia is founded
1833: the first National Temperance Convention is held
1833: Lydia Maria Child publishes the first anti-slavery book in the United States
1834: Lowell Mill girls go on strike
1834: the American female moral reform society is founded
1837: Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first women's college is founded by Mary Lyon
1837: Angelina and Sarah Grimk©♭ lecture mixed-sex audiences on abolitionism
1839: Margaret Fuller initiates "conversations" with prominent Boston women
1840: the abolitionist movement divides over women's rights
1840: Georgia female college grants the first full bachelor's degrees to women
1840: Lucretia Mott is denied a seat at the World Anti-slavery Conference
1843: Dorothea Dix exposes the harsh treatment accorded the mentally ill in Massachusetts hospitals
1843: Oliver Wendall Holmes publishes The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
1844: The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association is formed
1848: Maria Mitchell is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1848: the Seneca Falls Convention
1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first modern woman to graduate from medical school
1850s: Amelia Bloomer introduces bloomers
1850: Philadelphia Quakers found the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
1850: Harriet Tubman first leads slaves to freedom
1851: Sojourner Truth addresses a woman's rights convention in Akron, Ohio
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852: Emily Dickinson's first poem is published
1853: Antoinette Blackwell becomes the first ordained woman minister in America
1859: the American Medical Association announces its opposition to abortion
1863: the National Women's League supports emancipation
1867: the Grange Movement accepts women as equal members
1869: the Knights of Labor is founded and includes women workers
1869: Suffragists organize
1872: Victoria Woodhull runs for president of the United States
1873: the "women's uprising"
1873: Remington begins manufacture of the typewriter
1873: Congress passes the Comstock Law
1874: Mary Ewing Outerbridge brings tennis to the United States
1874: the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case of Minor v. Happersett
1878: A woman suffrage amendment is first submitted to Congress
1879: Mary Baker Eddy founds the Christian Science Movement
1879: the first woman practices before the U.S. Supreme Court
1881: Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross
1882: the Association of Collegiate Alumnae is founded
1883: Ladies Home
Journal begins publication
1885: William Stead exposes widespread trafficking in young girls
1885: Annie Oakley joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
1888: the formation of the Illinois Women's Alliance
1889: Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago
1889: Nellie Bly goes around the world in seventy-two days
1890: the General Federation of women's clubs is founded by Jane Cunningham Croly
1890: Suffragists unite under the banner of the National Woman Suffrage Association 1891: impressionist Mary Cassatt is invited to paint a mural for the world's Columbian Exposition
1892: Illinois becomes the first state to limit work hours for women
1893: Mary Elizabeth Lease runs for the U.S. Senate
1895: the Henry Street nurses Settlement is founded by Lillian D. Wald
1895: the first American women's amateur golf championship takes place at the same time as the first men's championship
1898: Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics
1899: Florence Kelley accepts a position with the National Consumer's League
1900: the rise of social feminism
1900: Sister Carrie reveals the harsher side of urban living
1901: the invention of the electric washing machine
1902: Fannie Farmer opens a cooking school in Boston
1903: the National Women's Trade Union League is formed
1903: Mother Jones leads a caravan of children to the President's Oyster Bay Home
1904: Ida Tarbell publishes the History of the Standard Oil Company
1906: Congress passes the Pure Food Act
1907: Margaret Sage founds the Russell Sage Foundation
1908: the U.S. Supreme court uphold protective legislation in Muller v. Oregon
1908: The American Home Economics Association is founded
1909: Sigmund Freud visits Clark University
1909: the "uprising of 30,000"
1910: Frances Elisabeth Crowell is appointed executive secretary of the Association of Tuberculosis clinics in New York City
1911: Dr. Alice Hamilton publishes the first study of occupational disease
1911: the Triangle Fire kills scores of young women workers
1911: Kansas City, Missouri, Passes the nation's first mother's pension law
1912: the Heterodoxy Club holds its first meeting
1912: Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of America
Alice Paul leads a protest at Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration
1912: the U.S. Children's Bureau is established
1913: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn organizes the Paterson Strike
1915: the Woman's Peace Party is founded
1916: Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress
1916: Georgia O'Keefe's works are exhibited by Alfred Stieglitz
1916: the "birth control sisters" are arrested for opening a clinic in Brooklyn
1917: the American Women's Hospitals Service helps female physicians serve in World War I
1917: Isadora Duncan appears at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
1919: the League of Women Voters is founded
1919: the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs is founded
1919: the Nineteenth Amendment is passed by Congress
1920: Paramount Pictures makes Lois Weber one of the highest paid movie directors
1920: Edith Wharton wins a Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence
1921: Congress passes the Sheppard-Towner Act
1921: the Women's Bond Club of New York is founded
1921: Betty Crocker first appears
1921: the Miss America Pageant attracts Atlantic City tourists
1921: M. Carey Thomas opens the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women in Industry
1922: Ida Husted Harper completes the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage
1922: Emily Post publishes Etiquette
1923: the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down minimum wage laws
1924: the National Council of Parents and Teachers is founded
1925: Florence Sabin is elected to the National Academy of Sciences
1928: Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa
1929: women inspectors in an Elizabethan, Tennessee, textile factory go on strike
1929:
Women pilots organize the ninety-nines
1930: the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching is founded
1931: Jane Addams is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1931: the Society of Industrial Engineers awards the first Gilbreth Medal to Lillian Gilbreth
1931: Dorothy Thompson interviews Hitler
1932: Amelia Earhart flies the Atlantic Ocean solo
1932: Frances Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet officer
1933: Sodium pentathol is introduced as an anesthetic
1935: Mary McLeod Bethune accepts a government position as minority affairs advisor
1935: Billie Holiday records with Teddy Wilson
1935: Congress enacts the Social Security Act
1935: the National Council of Negro Women is organized
1935: Sulfonamides are first used against Puerperal Fever
Margaret Mitchell publishes Gone With the Wind
1936: Eleanor Roosevelt transforms the role of First Lady
1936: the Federal Court rules that the Comstock Law Definition of Obscenity cannot include birth control
1938: Pearl Buck wins the Nobel Prize for literature
1938: the Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wages
1939: Karen Horney publishes New Ways in Psychoanalysis
1939: Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial
1939: Grandma Moses' paintings are exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art
1940s: Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White win honors for photographic essays
1941: Women are accepted into the Armed Forces in roles other than nursing
1941: World War II increases the demand for women workers
1942: Planned parenthood adopts a new name over the objections of Margaret Sanger
1942: the WASPS are created by Jackie Cochran and General "Hap" Arnold.
-- 1945: Eleanor Roosevelt joins the U.S. delegation to the United Nations -- 1946: Emily Greene Balch is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -- 1947: Farnham and Lundberg publish The Modern Woman: The Lost Sex --
1949: Babe Didrikson Zaharias is named woman athlete of the twentieth-century
1950: Margaret Chase Smith delivers "A Declaration of Conscience" speech
19590: Althea Gibson breaks the color barrier in professional tennis
1950: Gwendolyn Brooks wins a Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen
1951: Marianne Moore wins the Pulitzer Prize
1952: playwright Lillian Hellman testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee
1952: Marilyn Monroe achieves stardom in Gentleman Prefer Blondes
1953: the Kinsey Report reveals changing sexual mores and practices
1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus
1956: the La Leche League is founded
1959: the Lorraine Hansberry Play, a Raisin in the Sun, opens on Broadway
1960: the Food and Drug Administration approves "the pill"
1962: Dolores Huerta helps found the United Farm Workers Union
1962: Silent Spring alerts the public to the dangers of pesticides
1963: the Mary Kay cosmetics company is founded
1963: the President's Commission on the Status of Women Issues its American Women Report
1963: Congress passes the Equal Pay Act of 1963
1963: the Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is published
1964: "Bewitched" begins a seven-year run as a top-rated television show
1964: the Civil Rights Act includes a prohibition against sex discrimination in employment
1964: Fannie Lou Hamer founds the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
1965: Helen Gurley Brown takes over as editor of Cosmopolitan
1966: the National Organization for Women is founded
1967: Executive Order 11375 broadens affirmation action to include sex
1968: Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African-American congresswoman
1969: San Diego State University establishes the first women's studies Baccalaureate degree program
1970: the Coalition of 100 Black Women organizes to provide leadership
1971: Ms. Magazine is founded
1971: the National Women's Political Caucus is founded
1972: Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs
1972: Congress passes the Equal Rights Amendment
1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in a widely touted battle of the sexes
1973: Roe v. Wade strikes down antiabortion laws
1976: women are admitted to the U.S. Service Academies by an act of Congress
1976: Maxine Hong Kingston wins the National Book Critics Circle Award
1977: a Year of the Woman Conference is held in Houston
1977: Iris Rivera refuses to make her boss coffee
1978: the first woman is elected to the U.S. Senate in her own right
1979: Judy Chicago completes the "Dinner Party"
1980: the U.S. divorce rate reaches an all-time high
1981: Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court as the first woman associate justice
1983: astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first woman to travel in space
1984: Geraldine Ferraro accepts the nomination as the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate
1985: Wilma Mankiller becomes principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
1985: EMILY's list funds women's campaigns
1987: the National Museum of Women in the Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
1991: Anita Hill testifies at the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings
1992: the American Association of University Women reports on sex bias in schools
1993: African-American writer Toni Morrison wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1993: Maya Angelou reads an original poem at President Clinton's inauguration.
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Published
Holbrook, Mass. : Bob Adams, Inc., ©1994.
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xxi, 393 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-375) and index.
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Covers major events of American history in which women played significant roles and profiles such notable figures as Anne Hutchinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Betty Friedan.
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Lunardini, C. A. (1994). What every American should know about women's history: 200 events that shaped our destiny . Bob Adams, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lunardini, Christine A., 1941-. 1994. What Every American Should Know About Women's History: 200 Events That Shaped Our Destiny. Bob Adams, Inc.
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