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The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663.Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English Protestant population.
Founded the Tigerettes, the first black female basketball and softball team [7] Jennifer Rizzotti (b. 1974) 2022 President of the Connecticut Sun American professional basketball team. Rizzotti was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013. [7] Lhakpa Sherpa (b. 1973) 2022 Woman's World Record for 10 summits of Mt. Everest [7 ...
The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker .
Emma Willard (née Hart; February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York.
The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA) was founded on October 28, 1869, by Isabella Beecher Hooker and Frances Ellen Burr at Connecticut's first suffrage convention. [1] Its main goal was to persuade the Connecticut General Assembly to ratify the 19th amendment , giving women in Connecticut the right to vote.
Camp Alice P. Merritt in Hartland, Connecticut, was named in her honor. [2] Merritt remained active in civic affairs after leaving office. In 1949, she was serving as a trustee of the Connecticut Valley Hospital. [12] That same year, she was the inaugural recipient of a civil leadership award from the Hartford chapter of the B'nai B'rith Women ...
In 1973, the Prudence Crandall Center for Women, since 2003 the Prudence Crandall Center, Inc., was founded in New Britain, Connecticut, to provide shelter for victims of domestic violence. [ 33 ] Crandall was the subject of a Walt Disney /NBC television movie entitled She Stood Alone (1991), in which she was portrayed by actress Mare Winningham .
Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966