This week we have been studying the African-American mother and her obsticles. The professor asked a question about how the media viewed the popularity of Michelle Obama. At that point, I started to think about women in History. Women in history really didn't become known well until about the 1970's when it started to become a collegiate academic study. I realized I know some but not a lot about the matriarchs of history. Of course, we studied our founding fathers -- God bless their pea-picking souls! Then after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, historians started to include in our studies African-American males and their attributes. Of course in the my world we knew about Madame Curie, Clara Barton, and Florence Nighttingale (every young girls heroine during my time.) That was the extent to my education on women in History.
Tonight, I started to do a little research. I found limited information on women in history. I did make a lot of discoveries. Women have been rustling their skirts for years and that is where I will start 1784. I will just publish names for everyone to look up--like I did. I will mention a few which was of real interest to me (this list is multi-racial.)
1784 -- Elisabeth Thible
1798 -- Jeanne Labrosse -- 1st woman to solo a hot air balloon
1992-- Mae Jemison
1957 -- Althea Gibson -- 1st black woman to win the high jump and receive a gold medal in the Olympics
1921 -- Bessie Coleman -- 1st American woman/African-American woman to received a pilots license.
1939 -- Jackie Cochran -- 1st woman to be a test pilot before Chuck Yager became famous.
1947 -- Ann Shaw Carter -- 1st American woman to earn a helicopter rating
1941 -- Valentina Grizodubova -- Commander of 300 men during WW II of Russian bomber squadron --Russia (WW II ally) was the only country that allowed women bomber pilots with the exception of Turkey.
1941 -- Sabiha Gokcen --Turkey female fighter pilot during WW II.
Jane Adams (1860-1935)
Marian Anderson (1902-1995)
Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931)
Belle Boyd (1844-1900)
Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
Susie Taylor King (1848-1912) -- 1st African-American Nurse during Civil War
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) -- 1st Woman nominated for President of the US with the running mate of Frederick Douglas as VP in 1872-- nominated by the Equal Rights Party.
The women that I didn't put anything by their name, I thought I would leave the interest up to the individual reader to find out about. The last group of women, I do not know who they are but they took a very big chance during World War II. This group of ladies, voluteered for a job in the European Theatre. The mail systems had haulted during World War II in Birmingham, England.
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Army Corp Battalion was assembled for the job. They were all African-American Women and the only corp of African-American women during World War II who served in Europe.
Sources:
http://rwnutjob.blogspot.com/2009/05/forgotten-history-womens-auxiliary.html
http://www.suite101.com/content/black-women-in-wwii-a-forgotten-story-a83893
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/grizodubova.html
http://www.bessiecoleman.com/
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm
http://www.victoria-woodhull.com/whoisvw.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/susie-king-taylor-1
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