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An 18-member commission, along with input from the Library of Virginia and professors of women's history, selected the women to be honored with statues sculpted by StudioEIS in Brooklyn, New York. The granite plaza and Wall of Honor were opened in October 2018 and the monument was officially unveiled with the first seven completed statues on ...
She also served as the Executive Director of "Drive Smart" for close to a decade, on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation, on the Virginia State Bar Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (6 years), and on the Women's Monument Commission (which is presently working on the Virginia Women's Monument). [1]
Dorothy McDiarmid taught school at the Sidwell Friends School for a time, as well as in northern Virginia. She was active in the Parent Teacher Association (becoming President of the Fairfax County federation chapter and uniting the white and black PTAs) as well as the League of Women Voters, Democratic Women's Club, Boy Scouts and Vienna community activities while raising their children.
In the same year, she also served as a member of the Host Committee for the Virginia Women Veterans Summit. [16] In 2018, Northam also dedicated the first electric vehicle charging station in a Virginia State Park and the newly erected Virginia Women's Monument. [17]
She was quoted in an editorial in August, 1914 edition of The American Club Woman Magazine, stating "The best work of women's clubs is done in the awakening of the civic conscious." [3] Caldwell died in 1946. [2] In 2018 the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Caldwell's name would be on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of ...
The Allied armies’ Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section included 27 women and about 320 men during and just after WWII. The Army recently revived the concept, with the first new class of ...
Poe was a member of the National Association of Women Lawyers and she served as secretary to the Old Dominion Bar Association for 13 years. [2] She died on March 20, 1974. [1] In 2018 the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Poe's name would be included on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of Honor. [5]
She was a plaintiff in five landmark court cases affecting civil rights, including the 1956 decision that ended school segregation in Arlington County, Virginia, adjacent to Washington D.C., the national capital. Her play, "Our Heritage: Slavery to Freedom, 1776–1976," was designated an official bicentennial event by Arlington County.