1485: Veronica Gambara born (poet, art patron)
1824: Mary Green Pike born (writer)
1843: Martha George Rogers Ripley born (physician, reformer: suffrage, temperance, sanitation)
1854: Mary Eliza McDowell born (reformer: labor, sanitation; "Angel of the Stockyards")
1870: Etta Cone born (art collector)
1874: Lucy Maud Montgomery born (writer: Anne of Green Gables)
1924: Shirley Chisholm born (politician)
1929: Joan Ganz Cooney born (television producer)
1930: Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones) died (labor organizer)
Quote for Today
No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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