Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) worked as nurse among poor women on New York City’s Lower East Side and became an advocate for women’s health. In 1912, she gave up nursing and dedicated herself to the distribution of …
Women
This Week’s Women in History Profile: Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860–1935) considered to be the “mother” of American social work, a founder of the NAACP, a champion of women’s suffrage, an antiwar crusader and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Addams carved out …
From the Factory Floor to the Dark Cosmos: This Week’s Profile of Women in History
Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937) of the USSR became the first woman in space when she was launched into orbit, alone, aboard Vostok 6, on 16 June, 1963. She was 26 years old. It would be …
I am a Woman…Hear Me Roar…
On this day, 8 March, in 1926, memebers of the New york Fur and Leather Workers Union, many of them women, began a strike that would be met with police beatings and threats to life, …
A Woman’s Place is in the Cabinet
In recognition of March as ‘Women’s History Month’, we recall that it was on this day, 4 March, in 1933, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt named a woman, Frances Perkins, to be secretary of labor. …
Honoring Alumni Vel Phillips
We bring you another installment profiling an African-American with a Wisconsin history that made their mark. The first African-American female to earn a Law degree from UW-Madison was Vel Phillips. Ms. Phillips would go on …
UW-Madison Alumni, Hilton Hanna
February is Black History Month so we are going to use this blog to learn a bit more about those who made history in their own way…..people like Hilton Hanna. Mr. Hanna came to Madison …