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Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
This was largely an honorary position; Stanton continued to work on a wide range of women's rights issues despite the organization's increasingly tight focus on women's right to vote. Stanton was the primary author of the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage , a massive effort to record the history of the movement, focusing ...
She had great confidence in all women but doubted that a woman would produce a lasting work of art or literature in her time [135] and disliked the popular female poets of her time. [136] Fuller also warned women to be careful about marriage and not to become dependent on their husbands. As she wrote, "I wish woman to live, first for God's sake ...
In 2004, Duffy was the first woman named as president and CEO of Maritz in the company’s more than 100-year history. The promotion prompted a move from Philadelphia to the company’s ...
Rose Laure Allatini was born in Vienna, into a large and prosperous Jewish family. [4] Her father, Roberto Allatini, was born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) on 17 December 1856, to Moïse (Moses) Allatini (1809–1882) and Rosa Mortera (1819 – 1892); [5] her mother, Bronislawa ("Bronia") Rapoport von Porada was born in Krakow, Poland (then under Austrian control) on 17 December ...
Named Person of the Year by TIME magazine in 2017, Burke has spent her life empowering women to share their stories and fight against sexual assault with the slogan "empowerment through empathy ...
No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.