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February 27

From Jone Johnson Lewis,
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This Day in Women's History

    1818: Emma Marwedal born

    1837: Francesca Alexander born

    1850: Laura Howe Richards born

    1861: Louise Kellogg (opera singer) debuted

    1869: Alice Hamilton born

    1888: Lotte Lehman born

    1932: Elizabeth Taylor born

    1942: Charlayne Hunter-Gault born (first black student at the University of Georgia, first black reporter at Louisville Times, first black writer at New Yorker Magazine, first black woman correspondent on a daily news program)

Quote for Today

    Once there was an elephant
    Who tried to use the telephant --
    No! No! I mean an elephone
    Who tried to use the telephone.

    — Laura Howe Richards: "Eletelephony"

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