Women in History
October
October 3: In 1922, Rebecca Felton becomes the first woman to occupy a seat in the U.S. Senate.
October 6: Born in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer, voting rights activist and sharecropper.
October 10: Born in 1874, Beatrice Hinkle became the first female public health physician.
October 12: Born in 1860, Red Cross leader Mabel Boardman.
October 16: In 1916, Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic.
October 20: Born in 1937, Byllye Avery, founder of the Black Women's Health Network.
October 22: Born in 1834, Abigail Scott Duniway, Oregon journalist and lecturer on women's rights.
October 24: Born in 1830, Belva Lockwood, pioneering lawyer and U.S. presidential candidate.
October 28: Born in 1842, Anna Dickinson, suffragist and orator.
October 29: In 1966, National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded.
From: Women Who Dare(Library of Congress)