It was on 6 March, 1988, that Irish Republican Army Volunteer, Mairead Farrell, was killed by British soldiers of the Special Air Service (SAS). Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she joined the Provisional IRA as …
Women
Activist, Scholar, Defendant
It was on 26 January, in 1944, that African American scholar Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She was raised in a politically active environment and her mother was an organizer of ‘Southern Negro …
Women’s Day – Celebrated!
It was a full house, and then some, at Varsity Hall in Union South when University Staff gathered together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The crowd heard an address from UWPD Chief Kristen Roman and …
Dairy Farmer’s Daughter
6 March, marks the day that artist Georgia O’Keeffe, died in 1986. She was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and attended High School in Madison. She began work as a commercial artist in …
Price on her Head
2 November marks the day in 1979 that African-American activist Assata Shakur escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey. Shakur, a New York City native, earned her GED and attended the …
Verboten?
It was on 20 September, 1932, that the German film, ‘Madchen in Uniform’ opened in American theaters. The film was directed by Leontine Sagan, a Jewish theater director, and depicted romantic feelings in an all …
Indictment
It was on 25 July, in 1974 that Barbara Jordan, a Democrat from Texas, spoke to her fellow members of the House Judiciary Committee as they debated the Impeachment of President Nixon. Jordan began her …
Barbara Streisand – This Week’s Jewish American Heritage Profile
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942, her mother was a soprano singer and her father a high school teacher who was a highly respected educator with a focus on helping underprivileged and delinquent youth. …
Nilde Iotti – This Week’s Women in History Profile
Nilde Iotti, the daughter of a railway worker, was the first woman to become president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for three consecutive legislatures from 1979 to 1992. Born in Reggio Emilia, she took …
Ingrid Bergamn – This Week’s Women in History Profile
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who became best known to American audiences through her role in the 1942 motion picture, ‘Casablanca’. In 1949, Bergman wrote to Italian director Roberto Rossellini, expressing her admiration for …