Vivian Maier was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago’s North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her …
Women
Bernadette Devlin – This Week;s Profile in Women’s History
In 1969, at the age of 21, Bernadette Devlin became the youngest member of the UK Parliament when she was elected to represent the Mid-Ulster constituency of Northern Ireland. Devlin had previously been a Psychology student …
Golda Meir – This Week’s Women in History Profile
Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labor and Foreign Minister. Born in Tsarist Russia in 1898, Meir would later recall that her earliest memories were …
Citizen 13660
10 February marks the birthday of Mine Okubo in Riverside, California in 1912. Okubo is best known for her graphic illustrated memoir in which she told the story of her families internment during World War …
A Worldwide Cover Up
1 February marks ‘World Hijab Day’. The day was created by Nazma Khan, who post-9/11, experienced discrimination for wearing her hijab. It is a worldwide event that encourages Muslim and non-Muslim women to wear the …
The Russian Swan
8 January marks the birthday of Galina Ulanova, in St. Petersburg Russia, in 1910. In 1944 she became the Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet. In the USSR she was awarded the Stalin Prize in …
Puerto Rican Pride
19 November marks the birthday of Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron. On a rainy March 1st in 1954, Ms. Lebron left New York City, where she had been working in a shoe factory, and arrived in …
Rose Schneiderman – This Week’s “Profile in Jewish American Heritage”
Rose Schneiderman was a legendary organizer of women workers, once saying, What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has …
A Writer, A Witness, A Young Woman
In was in the month of March, in 1945, that Anne Frank, a 15 year old girl would perish in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In the hiding place in Holland where she and her family had …
This Week’s Women in History Profile: Maya Lin
Maya Lin (born 1959) the daughter of Chinese immigrants, rose to fame in 1981 when as a 21 year old architectural student at Yale University, Lin won a contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial …