1841: Agnes Irwin born (educator)
1848: Dorothea Dix presents her request to the U.S. Congress for a perpetual fund for the "indigent insane"
1849: Harriet Hubbard Ayer born (business woman: cosmetics)
1859: Leonora Piper born (spiritualist and medium, analyzed in William James' Will to Believe and Other Essays)
1862: May Irwin born (actress, singer)
1869: Emma Goldman born (reformer, radical)
1880: Helen Keller born (writer, lecturer, deaf-blind woman)
1888: Antoinette Perry born (actress, director)
1893: Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset born (legislator, reformer)
1924: Efua Sutherland born (writer)
1924: Rosalie Allen born (singer, yodeler)
Quote for Today
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
-- Dorothea Dix
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