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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
March 19-25
Birthdays
March 21
- In 1816, Charlotte
Bronte, novelist/poet.
- In 1905, Phyllis McGinley, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters).
March 23
- In 1908, Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate.
March 24
- In 1907, Lucia Chase, ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet
Theater).
- In 1922, Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council
of negro women).
March 25
Deaths
March 23
- In 1786, Patience Wright, the first US woman professional artist,
died (birth date unknown).
Happenings
March 20
- In 1985, Libby
Riddles is the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race.
March 21
- In 1868, the first US professional women's club, Sorosis, was
founded in New York, NY.
March 22
- In 1861, the first US nursing school was chartered.
- In 1872, Illinois became the first state to require sexual
equality in employment.
March 23
- In 1901, Dame Nellie Melba revealed the secret of her famous
toast.
- In 1981, the US Supreme Court ruled that states could require,
with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought
abortions.
- In 1981, Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape a
crime only for men.
March 25
- In 1916, women were allowed to attend a boxing match for the
first time.
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