Aunt Donna Celebrates Women's History (March)

Women's History Month:
The public celebration of women's history in this country began in 1978 as "Women's History Week" in Sonoma County, California. The week including March 8, International Women's Day, was selected. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) co-sponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women's History Week. In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month, and March was declared Women's History Month.

Firsts in Women's Achievement:
~Mary Katherine Goddard First woman postmaster 1775
~Victoria Chaflin Woodhull First woman to be presidential candidate 1872
~Suzanna Madora Salter First woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas) 1887
~Jeannette Rankin First woman U.S. House Representative 1916
~Hallie Ferguson First woman governor of U. S. state (Texas) 1924
~Jane Addams First woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize 1931
~Hattie Wyatt Caraway First woman elected to U.S. Senate 1932
~Georgia Nesse Clark First woman treasurer of the United States 1949
~Sandra Day O'Connor First woman justice of the Supreme Court 1981
~Madeleine K. Albright First woman Secretary of State and highest ranking woman in the U.S. government 1997
~Hillary R. Clinton Only First Lady ever elected to the U. S. Senate 2000
~Condoleezza Rice First African-American woman appointed Secretary of State 2005

National Women's History Museum: http://www.nmwh.org

Harriet Tubman Coloring Page: http://schools.monterey.k12.ca.us/~lagunita/Tubman/cpage.html