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Due to her father's passing, as well as cultural limitations for women at the time, Ceesay was unable to complete a proper traditional education and was forced to drop out of school- for it was unaffordable at the time- and instead was forced to do work making and selling toys by using small scraps of clothing and wood, which made her popular ...
Nannie H. Burroughs born on May 2, 1879, in Orange, Virginia.She is considered to be the eldest of the daughters of John and Jennie Burroughs. Around the time she was five years old, Nannie's youngest sisters died and her father, who was a farmer and Baptist preacher, died a few years later.
1913 – Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C., "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society. 1991 – Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers during an arrest, causing public outrage that increased tensions between the African-American community and the police department over ...
After continued petitioning from the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women’s History Alliance), Congress expanded the holiday and designated March as Women's History Month ...
More than half a century before women's history and public history emerged as fields of inquiry and action, the UDC, with other women's associations, strove to etch women's accomplishments into the historical record and to take history to the people, from the nursery and the fireside to the schoolhouse and the public square.
3, Tiffeny Milbrett ( United States), 1 vs China in 1996 & 2 vs Norway in 2000; Carli Lloyd ( United States), 1 vs Brazil in 2008 & 2 vs Japan in 2012. Fastest hat-trick 14 minutes, Cristiane ( Brazil), scored at 34', 35' and 45+3', vs Nigeria, 2008. Most hat-tricks 3, Barbra Banda ( Zambia), 2020-2024. Youngest hat-trick scorer
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Elizabeth Fries Ellet (née Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War. [1] Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She ...