Women's History Calendar
July Highlights in US Women's History
- - Mary Katherine Goddard publishes the Declaration of Independence in Baltimore where she is the only printer.
- - Seneca Falls Convention, the country's first women's rights convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York
- - Suffragist crash the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall to challenge the Vice President about the fact that federal government of the United States opposed the right of women to vote.
- - The National Women's party starts picketing the White House for universal woman suffrage
- - Amelia Earhart's plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean, near Howland Island
- - the first class of Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) begins at Fort Des Moines, IA. The WAAC accepts both black and white women.
- - Althea Gibson is the first black woman player to win a Wimbledon title in women's tennis singles. Two weeks later she won a major U.S. tennis title, capturing the national clay court singles championship
- - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act; Title VII prohibits sex discrimination.
- - the Susan B. Anthony dollar starts circulating
- - President Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman Supreme Court Justice
- - Representative Geraldine Ferraro (D-New York) is chosen to run for Vice-President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket with Walter Mondale
(D-Minnesota).
July Birthdays
- - Nettie Stevens - Biologist, discovered X and Y sex chromosome
- - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - Writer and lecturer; developed techniques for counseling the dying and their families
- - Mary McLeod Bethune - Black educator; minority affairs advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ) - Mary Baker Eddy - Founder, Church of Christ Scientist
- - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Black journalist, crusaded against lynching
- - Louise Bethune - First woman architect, 1881
- - Emma Lazarus - Poet; wrote "The New Colossus," 1883, later inscribed in the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…"
- - Harriet Strong - Agriculturist; patented water storage dams
- - Bella Abzug - Lawyer; NY Congresswoman, 1972-1976, initiated proposal for Women's Equality Day
- - Lucy Burns - Suffragist; leader of Congressional Union with Alice Paul. During July 2004 the New York City Council will issue a proclamation that that pays tribute this extraordinary woman from Brooklyn, New York.
- - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - First Lady from 1961 - 1963; established White House Historical Association