Women in History

March

March 1: Rebecca Lee of Boston, Mass. becomes the first African-American womean to earn a medical degree in the U.S (1864).

March 2: Women start pilot training in the U.S. Navy (1973).

March 4: Jeanette Rankin becomes the first female member of Congress, representing Montana (1917).

March 10: In 1845, Women's rights activist Hallie Quinn Brown is born.

March 12: Born 1877, Annette Adams, the first female federal prosecutor.

March 13: Susan B. Anthony dies at 86, leaving a $10,000 estate to the women's suffrage movement (1906).

March 16: In 1947, Margie Hurley is the first female aviator to break the 300 mph airspeed barrier.

March 24: Dorothy Stratton is born in 1899. She is the director of the US Coast Guard Women (SPARS) during World War II.

March 26: Born 1819, German author and feminist pioneer, Louise Otto.

March 27: Born 1880, Ruth Hanna McCormick, newspaper publisher and US congresswoman.

March 30:  Born 1882, Melanie Klein, pioneer psychologist.

March 31: In 1776,Abigail Adams writes to her husband John, who is involved in developing the Declaration of Independence:" Remember the ladies...[we] will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice."

From: Women Who Dare(Library of Congress)