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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
July 9 - July 15
Birthdays
July 9
- In 1764, Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Italian).
- In 1894, Dorothy Thompson, US newspaper columnist.
- In 1926, Mathilde Krim, founder of AmFar (1980), an AIDS organization
that has raised more than $50 million for research and education.
July 10
- In 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune, former slave and educator (Bethune-Cookman
College).
- In 1884, Harriet Wiseman Elliott, the only woman member of the National
Defense Commission. In addition, she founded the first woman's suffrage
group in North Carolina.
July 11
- In 1839, Clara Adams-Ender, the first black woman to be made Chief
of the Department of Nursing at Walter Reed.
July 12
- In 1880, Emily Gregory Hickman, world peace activist and professor
of history at the New Jersey College for Women.
July 13
- In 1927, Simone Veil - president (1979-1981)
of the European Community Parliament. She also served as France's Minister
of Health, Social Affairs, and Urban Affairs (1993). She chaired the
parliament's legal affairs committee from 1982 to 1984. She was also
a survivor of Auschwitz.
July 14
- In 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political
Union.
July 15
- In 1919, Dame Iris Murdoch, British author (The Bell and The Message
to the Plant). She aslo taught modern philosophy at Oxford University.
Happenings
July 10
- In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state in the US. Women could vote,
if only in Wyoming, since it had retained its territorial law of woman's
suffrage.
- In 1917, Emma Goldman was imprisoned for obstructing the draft.
- In 1972, a local Chicago court rules a pregnant teacher
does not have to take a six-month unpaid leave after her fifth month
of pregnancy.
July 11
- In 1656, the first two Quakers (Ann Austin and Mary Fisher) were allowed
into Massachusetts Colony, after five weeks of imprisonment to see if
they were witches.
July 12
- In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro, NY became the first woman major-party
VP candidate.
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