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Colourized images showcase some of historys trailblazing women including abolitionists and suffragists One portrait showcased Ellen A. OGrady who was elected to be first female police commissioner in New York  Activist Lucy Burns - known for her work both in the UK and US - is pictured in Occoquan Workhouse  Also pictured is Harriet Tubman in 1911 - who helped to free the slaves - and  abolitionist and womens rights activist Sojourner Truth pictured in 1864

October 4, 1880 Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis is born in Lynchburg to John Henry Lewis and Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis. 1901 1903—1904 1907 Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis earns a doctorate in economics from the University of Berlin for her dissertation, A Contribution toward the Development of the Cotton Industry in the South of U.S.A. 1910s 1910 Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis prepares a report, The Beginnings of Child Labor Legislation in Certain States: A Comparati...

Besides the curious early case of New Jersey, women in Utah Territory were the first in the U.S. to cast ballots legally, having won voting rights in early 1870. (A Wyoming Territory law had extended the franchise to approximately 1,500 white women in December 1869, but Utahns actually voted first, in Salt Lake City’s municipal elections in February 1870.) Half a century before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, as scholar Katherine Kitterman writes, Utah was home to the �...

Carl J. Asszony Special to the USA TODAY Network "I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been."  — William Golding The month of March has been designated as Women’s History Month. This month, we recognize America’s women of all races and creeds, whose achievements, courage, determination, leadership and love of country contributed to the growth of this nation. From the moment the first women stepped on Plymouth Rock to the momen...

By Elena Goukassian When Whitney Sherman goes to the post office, 99 percent of the time, she buys the same postage stamp—a breast cancer research stamp first issued in 1998 that holds the title of longest-running postal issue in US history. The iconic stamp features a line drawing of Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting, awash in a flowing rainbow of colors with the words “FUND THE FIGHT. FIND A CURE.” encircling her right breast. To date, the stamp has raised more than $90 million for ...

The City Sentinel April 3, 2021 By Patrick B. McGuigan The City Sentinel Endorsements The City Sentinel’s endorsement philosophy, detailed in print and online in recent years, leads the newspaper to make the best possible...

The Electoral College Results 1800 (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) The air is crisp, and the first hints of color are showing in the Blue Ridge, which means that pumpkin spice lattes and the fifty-ninth U.S. presidential election must be around the corner. It’s easy to think that we live in uniquely unsettling political times. But a look at the past shows that the country has weathered political storms in the past and come out the other side, although often battered from the tempest.  Encycl...

The group chose the second week in February in 1926 to celebrate “Negro History Week.” The week was symbolic in that it was the same week of the birthdays of former President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and prominent abolitionist movement activist. In the late 1960s, the week evolved into an entire month, thanks in large part to the civil rights movement. Black History Month takes on a special meaning in 2020 — the 100-year anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendm...

Mask tyranny reached a new low recently when a family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight because their four-year-old autistic son was not wearing a mask. The family was removed from the plane even though the boy’s doctor had decided the boy should be exempted from mask mandates because the... Mask tyranny reached a new low recently when a family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight because their four-year-old autistic son was not wearing a mask. The family was removed from the plane e...

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