1816: Eliza Trimble Thompson born (temperance reformer)
1860: Laura Drake Gill born (educator)
1895: Carol Weiss King born (lawyer; defended many radicals)
1901: Clara L. Maass died (nurse)
1920: Tennessee certifies ratification of the 19th Amendment
1933: Lucy Ella Moten died (educator)
Quote for Today
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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