#Researching suffragist, sex ed activist & relative, #MaryWareDennett. Writing her untold story. I publish a monthly newsletter, Women Make History. Dog lover!
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Thanks @roxyszal and @MsMagazine for publishing my essay imagining #MrsMaisel meeting my hero, #MaryWareDennett 🍾
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#RepoRrights #herstory
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Hattie McDaniel accepted her Oscar at a segregated "No Blacks" hotel in Los Angeles for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
She made history as the first Black American to win an Oscar. Sadly, all of the film's Black actors, including McDaniel, were prohibited from attending the film's premiere in 1939 at the Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
Clark Gable, one of the film's stars, refused to attend if Hattie wasn't allowed, but she convinced him to go without her.
Even though McDaniel was eventually allowed into the hotel, she had to be escorted and was relegated to the back of the room, separated from her white co-stars.
Agree completely! This could have much bigger consequences.
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Today, in 1911, after 146 garment workers of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory died in an horrific fire, the public was propelled to action. As Frances Perkins, FDR Labor Secretary, who witnessed the fire, said: "The New Deal started on March 25th, 1911 with the Triangle Fire."
Great article in @SmithsonianMag by Laura Kiniry and interview with @JoannaScutts about Heterodoxy, a secret society of feminists founded in 1912. Of course #MaryWareDennett was a charter member.
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Want some advice from 1913?
Comment a page number and I'll take a photo.
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Well done, @EmilyYoffe The life & struggles of #MaryWareDennett 100 years ago reflect ours today re access to abortion, birth control, sex ed, book banning and more. Great job holding up the mirror of the past and keeping women’s history alive.
@freepress #WomensHistoryMonth
Mary Ware Dennett defied obscenity laws to educate young people about sex in the early 20th century—and paid a price.
Now, the same law that deemed her “filthy, vile, and indecent” could decide women’s future access to abortion.
@EmilyYoffe reports. thefp.pub/3xf9xfO
Happy to repost this important story and know that the American Women's History Museum is one step closer to becoming a reality!
#WomensHistoryMonth2024 #Smithsonian
Elizabeth C. Babcock has been named director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, effective June 3.
Read more: s.si.edu/3TtHC4x
ALT Headshot of Elizabeth C. Babcock
Shame on @AppleSupport for the company issuing a new OS that somehow deletes Gmail from the mail program. My Apple Support person had me delete the account & now it can't be reinstalled until Apples fixes the bug!
Of the 3,517 recipients of the Medal of Honor, only one is a woman. Do you know her name?
Women Make History: Stories we should have learned in school. conta.cc/3NTOWlH
#VeteransDay2023
If you've seen Killers of the Flower Moon, you may be surprised but it was Sioux journalist Zitkala-Ša who 1st wrote about the systematic decimation of the Osage in 1924. She isn't credited in the book on which the film is based. Read more: bit.ly/3MsAfX3
Hooray!
She is going to be on the US quarter starting next year
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NEVER using @ticketmaster or @vividseats again! Trying to see @sting at Usana tonight and the @Ticketmaster page never opens to accept the transfer of tickets! Here's to 6 hours on the phone over 3 days!