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Sometimes Jewish, sometimes feminist, sometimes both.
September 24 - September 30
Birthdays
September 24
- In 1891, Elizabeth Friedman - US cryptologist, active from World War
I through World War II.
- In 1942, Linda McCartney, musician, photographer,
wife of Beattle Paul McCartney, and a Jew.
September 25
- In 1887 May Sutton Bundy, the first US woman to win Wimbledon (1904).
- In 1931, Barbara Walters, journalist and interviewer.
- In 1952, Bell Hooks, author. She wrote that race and class play as
large a role as gender in the subordination of
poor and nonwhite women.
September 27
- In 1904, Frieda Barkin Hennock, a Jew, was the first woman appointed
to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (1948-55). She campaigned
to get TV channels set aside for educational purposes and finally won.
242 channels were set aside (out of a requested 500), creating what
we now know as PBS.
September 28
- In 1839, Frances Willard, founder of the World's Woman's Christian
Temperance Union (1883).
- In 1856, Kate Douglas Wiggins, organized the first free kindergarten
in the American West, but she is best known as the author of Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm.
- In 1913, Ellis Peters, aka Edith Mary Pargeter, British
author of the historical mystery series featuring Brother Cadfael (who
lived in the 12th century's British
Isles).
- In 1915, Ethel Rosenberg, the only woman ever executed
for espionage in the history of the US. Her guilt (and that of her husband's)
is still debated.
September 29
- In 1848, Caroline Ardelia Yale, educator of the deaf.
September 30
- In 1875, Anne Henrietta Martin, led the campaign which gave women
the vote in Nevada in 1914, six years before the rest of the US.
Happenings
September 24
- In 1895, the first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took
15 months).
September 25
- In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female supreme
court justice.
September 27
- In 1919, the Democratic National Committee voted to admit women.
September 28
- In 1904, New York City police arrested a woman for smoking a cigarette
in public.
September 29
- In 1974, The US Congress passed the Equal Credit
Opportunity Act, designed to equalize credit opportunities for women
and men. Under the new law, women's income had to be counted in
the same way as men's income for credit ratings and that no one
should be refused credit on account of sex or marital status.
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