Women's History Month
Women’s History Month: Jeannette Rankin, first woman seated in Congress
March 3, 2017“I may be the first woman member of Congress,” she observed upon her election in 1916. “But I won’t be the last.”
Read moreRemembering women’s history: Lucy Parsons
March 6, 2015Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, a working-class leader and spouse of one of the Haymarket martyrs, died March 7, 1942 in Chicago.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Redstockings holds abortion speak out
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Today in women’s history: Hull House co-founder Ellen Starr born
March 19, 2014In 1896, Starr joined the garment workers' strike in support of the workers. She was a founding member of the Chicago chapter of the Women's Trade Union League in 1904.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Betty Allen, steel town to opera, is born
March 17, 2014Growing up in a working class community, Elizabeth Louise (Betty Lou) Allen heard opera on the streets, from neighbors' radios.
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