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Colourized images showcase some of history's trailblazing women including abolitionists and suffragists One portrait showcased Ellen A. O'Grady 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 women's 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 Comparative Study, for the Department of Commerce and Labor. June 4, 1910 October 1910 Elizabeth Dabney L...

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 “first substantial population of voting women in the United States.” Yet the pioneering history of...

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 moment New Jersey's Kathryn D. Sullivan walked into space and on to the present day, the achievements o...

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 breast cancer research, but that’s not the only reason Sherman buys it. In fact, she created the i...