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The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is an independent, community-based non-profit organization serving 11 counties in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania. It was founded in 2002. The stated goal of the foundation is to achieve equality for women and girls in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Women's Center works in conjunction with Allegheny County, the City of Pittsburgh, and surrounding municipalities to provide support for victims of domestic abuse. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Nicole Molinaro has been the president and chief executive officer of the organization since 2018.
Pittsburgh Pirates great and future Hall of Famer Honus Wagner helped promote the 1922 film In the Name of the Law by catching baseballs thrown off the roof of City Hall. [23] [24] Mayor Magee and the City Hall were featured in 1924's Fording the Lincoln Highway. [25] 1992's Lorenzo's Oil used the building to shoot scenes depicting Johns ...
In Pittsburgh, the Evangeline Residence for Young Women opened in 1927 with 229 single and double rooms and none were rented for only single nights. Each applicant had to meet the following qualifications: The applicant must be a young woman without a home within commuting distance of Pittsburgh or from a broken home within the city.
Angel Reese announced the launch of the Angel C. Reese Foundation, which will be dedicated to empowering girls and women through sports, education, financial literacy and more. The 2023 NCAA women ...
back, l to r, Albert M. Sacks, Pauli Murray, Mary Bunting; seated, l to r, Alma Lutz, suffragette [] and Harvard Law School Forum guest, and Betty Friedan Murray applied to a PhD program in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1938, but was rejected because of her race. [32]
A few weeks ago, on a frigid and snowy but bright sunny day, the men of Eta Nu Nu of the illustrious Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. decided to celebrate Women’s History Month early, as more than ...
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.