Women in History

August

August 1:  In 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first licensed female pilot in the U.S.

August 4: Born 1697, Susanna Wright became a physician, scribe, and arbiter for the Conestoga Indians.

August 10: Born in 1859, Anna J. Cooper, black educator and president of Frelinghuysen University.

August 13: Born in 1818, abolitionist and suffragist, Lucy Stone.

August 17: Laura de Force Gordon is born in 1838. She was a pioneer California suffragist and newspaperwoman.

August 18: Tennessee becomes the 36th (and last) state to ratify the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage) in 1920

August 23: Born in 1847, physicist and astronomer, Sarah Whiting.

August 24: Nature writer Margaret Fairless Barber dies at age 32 after a long illness in 1901.

August 26: The 19th Amendment officially takes effect in 1920.

August 27: Born in 1910, Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College.

August 28: Born in 1952, Rita Dove, educator, author and Poet Laureate.

August 31: Born in 1870, educator Maria Montessori..

From: Women Who Dare(Library of Congress)