Did you Know?
That on July 2, 1979 the Susan B. Anthony dollar was released?
That on July 2, 1937 - Amelia Earhart’s plane was lost in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island?
That on July 2, 1964 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act;
Title VII prohibiting sex discrimination in employment ?
That July 4, 1876 - Suffragists crashed the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall
to present the Vice President with the “Declaration of the Rights of Women” written by Matilda Joselyn Gage?
That on July 6, 1957 - Althea Gibson was the first African American woman player to win a
Wimbledon title in women’s tennis singles?
That on July 7, 1981 - President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman
Supreme Court Justice?
That onJuly 12, 1984 - Representative Geraldine Ferraro (D-New York) was chosen as the first
female to run for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket with
Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota) ?
That July 14, 1917 - 16 women from the National Women’s Party were arrested while picketing
the White House demanding universal women’s suffrage; they were charged with obstructing traffic?
That on July 19-20, 1848 - The Seneca Falls Convention, the country’s first women’s rights convention,
was held in Seneca Falls, New York
That on July 20, 1942 - The first class of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) began at Fort Des Moines, IA ?
