Caroline & Eliza
Women’s History Month - Day 31: Caroline & Eliza Greenwood
They dress up as a lot of incredible women - but they too - hold a significant place in this world.
I don’t know how long they will continue to allow me to use them as models, but I am glad they have helped me celebrate 150 remarkably nuanced women over the last 5 years.
For the full list of women we have covered visit https://www.return2senderpodcast.com/womens-history-month-project
For daily women’s history facts follow @herstoryontherocks
“Here’s to strong women - may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.”
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Women’s HERstory Month: March 30, 2022
Mary Wollstonecraft was a famous women’s rights activist. She was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She was the mother of Mary Shelly, but died when Mary was very young.
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Henrietta Lacks
Women’s HERstory Month: March 29, 2022
Henrietta Lacks became sick with cancer and doctors at Johns Hopkins took a sample. Het cancer cells lived outside of her body for a long time AND duplicated rapidly. They kept her cells without permission from her or her family.
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Flo Kennedy
Women’s HERstory Month: March 28, 2022
Flo Kennedy was an American lawyer, radical feminist, civil rights advocate, lecturer, and activist.
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Katherine Johnson
Women’s HERstory Month: March 27, 2022
Katherine Johnson was a mathematician. She worked for NASA as a calculator. She was utilized to help check the calculations for John Glenn’s launch into outer space.
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Ann Cooper Hewitt
Women’s HERstory Month: March 26, 2022
Ann Cooper Hewitt was a wealthy heiress in California. After she did not fulfill all of the wishes of her parents. Her mother decided to have her “promiscuous” daughter declared feeble-minded and sterilized without her knowledge.
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Virginia Hall
Women’s HERstory Month: March 25, 2022
Virginia Hall was a spy during World War II. She successfully gave information to the allied troops walking back and forth across mountain ranges on one leg and one prosthetic leg.
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Elizabeth I
Women’s HERstory Month: March 24, 2022
Queen Elizabeth I was the Queen of England after her father Henry VIII, her brother Edward, her sister Mary, and her distant cousin Jane. Elizabeth was queen of England and Ireland for 45 years.
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Marion Hollis
Women’s HERstory Month: March 23, 2022
Marion Hollis was around golfers her entire life. She was a feminist who believed women should have their own courses and was instrumental in building the Women’s National Course in California.
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Jane Franklin
Women’s HERstory Month: March 22, 2022
Jane Franklin was the wife of famous explorer Sir John Francis. She was not one to sit at home - she traveled all across Australia without her husband, being the first non-native woman to do so.
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Sally Ride
Women’s HERstory Month: March 21, 2022
Sally Ride was a physicist from Los Angeles. She was the first woman from the United States to go into outer space in 1983. She is the youngest American astronaut to have flown to space.
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Amy Tan
Women’s HERstory Month: March 20, 2022
Amy Tan is an author known for her novel The Joy Luck Club. This book was turned into the first main stream US movie with an entirely Asian cast.
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Madonna Thunder Hawk
Women’s HERstory Month: March 19, 2022
Madonna Thunder Hawk is a Native American civil rights activist best known as a leader in the American Indian Movement.
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Shirley Temple Black
Women’s HERstory Month: March 18, 2022
Shirley Temple Black was a childhood actress who stole the hearts of America. When she grew up she became a politician after surviving breast cancer.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Women’s HERstory Month: March 17, 2022
Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer considered the First Lady of Song.
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Marilyn Monroe
Women’s HERstory Month: March 16, 2022
Marilyn Monroe was an actress during the Gold Age of Hollywood. She tragically died in her early thirties after struggling with addiction due to the pressures of work.
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Amanda Gorman
Women’s HERstory Month: March 15, 2022
Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history as well as an award-winning author.
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Frances Perkins
Women’s HERstory Month: March 14, 2022
Frances Perkins was a workers rights advocate who served as the the 4th United States Secretary of labor and the longest serving in the position.
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Rita Moreno
Women’s HERstory Month: March 13, 2022
Rita Moreno is an actress and the first woman of color to win an EGOT. She is most loved for her role in West Side Story, but has graced our screen for 5 decades.
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Dorothy Levitt
Women’s HERstory Month: March 12, 2022
Dorothy Levitt was a British racing driver and journalist. She was the first British racing driver, holder of the world’s first water speed record, the women’s world land speed record holder, and an author.
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