history
The roots of feminism were planted millennia ago; we must understand feminism throughout history to contemplate how much farther we can go.
WOMEN IN HISTORY
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. Their marriage and her execution by beheading, made her a key feature in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff5 years ago in Viva
WOMEN IN HISTORY
One of the most well-known of the English Queens, Alexandrina Victoria was born on 24th May, 1819, at Kensington Palace, London, at 4.15 in the morning. Her father was Prince Edward, the 4th son of King George III, and her mother was the Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. The little princess was christened on 24th June, 1819, in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton. Alexandrina Victoria was fifth in line to the throne.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff5 years ago in Viva
THE SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT
A Suffragette was a member of militant women’s organizations in the early 20th century who, under the banner “Votes for Women”. Fought for the right to vote in public elections, known as women’s suffrage. The term refers in particular to members of the British ‘Women’s Social and Political Union’ (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906 a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term ‘Suffragist,’ in an attempt to belittle the women advocating women’s suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff5 years ago in Viva
Statues of Real Women Who Lived
Statues in the United States that Honor Women Real women. Women who lived. A couple years ago there was a big movement to fund-raise and commission the installation of more statues here in the United States of women. Not just a statue that represents the female gender but statues of real women who lived. Who had a name and that we wish to honor with a monument.
By Paula C. Henderson5 years ago in Viva
First Black Woman To Receive White House Correspondent Credentials
Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first black woman correspondent to receive White House credentials and become a member of the press galleries. As a journalist, Dunnigan reported on the decline of Jim Crow during the forties and fifties. She accompanied President Harry S. Truman’s on his 1948 campaigning trip: the very first black reporter to travel with a president.
By Paula C. Henderson5 years ago in Viva
The Lost Generation
It’s easy for one to imagine the colossal leap basic education has bounded in the last hundred years. Back in the 20’s women were just being allowed into colleges, albeit these were mostly colleges for women only. Harvard didn’t even allow women on the main campus; a separate college called Radcliffe worked with Harvard but did not give out diplomas until 1963. Although most women were allowed equal education through certain colleges, they were not allowed an equal diploma.
By Mae McCreery6 years ago in Viva
We Celebrate the Birthday of Anne Frank
We Remember Anne Frank on June 12. Her Birthday. ANNE FRANK was born June 12, 1929 in Germany. She died February/March 1945 at the age of 15 years. She dies in a Nazi Germany concentration camp after she and her sister Margot along with her parents were found to be hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where her father, Otto Frank worked. Anne and Margot’s father Otto started a company, Pectacon, a wholesale distributer of spices, herbs and pickling salts. While in hiding from July 1942 until their capture in 1944 Anne kept a diary she had received for her 13th birthday in 1942.
By Paula C. Henderson6 years ago in Viva
Founder of the Suffrage League of Virginia
We celebrate the life of Adele Goodman Clark who passed away on this day, June 4, in 1983 at the age of 100. Adele, along with several other women founded the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. She also served as the first chair of the League of Women Voters in the year 1920, becoming president of the league in 1921.
By Paula C. Henderson6 years ago in Viva
