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In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (1985). online; Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women's life and work in the southern colonies (1938; reprinted 1998), pp 183–207. online; Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States (2 vols. 1929) vol 1 online also see vol 2 online
The American Association of Dental Schools (founded in 1923 and renamed the American Dental Education Association in 2000) appoints Nancy Goorey as its first female president. [315] United Kingdom Women are first allowed to apply for Rhodes Scholarships. [316] 1978: Afghanistan Mandatory literacy and education of all women. [77] 1979: United States
1821: Emma Willard founds the Troy Female Seminary in New York; it is the first school in the country founded to provide young women with a college-level education. [2] [3] 1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5]
The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
Bucy hopes to further Texas' investment in higher education next session by having an across-the-board pay raise for all university employees and addressing food insecurity for students.
Texas: The Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, goes into effect on January 1. [110] Mississippi: On June 15 a law making women eligible to serve on state court juries is signed by Governor John Bell Williams. Mississippi was the last state in America to allow this. [111]
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A mother in Grapevine, Texas, said an English teacher convinced her teenager to change genders. “I lost my son,” she said. Her transgender child tells a different story.