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#OnThisDay, 26 Apr 1777, 16 year old Sybil Ludington is said to have ridden 40 miles to warn American colonial forces of a British attack.

There's no contemporary evidence – see https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00452

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

Janette Speyer 22h ago

Early 1900 women could not even vote. But Joel Ross made his daughters partners. They ran one of New York’s most iconic food shops. Unheard of in those days. “& Daughters” was more than plain branding, it was a revolutionary statement. One that helped shape a century of smoked fish, and female ownership on the Lower East Side. Pictured is the smoked herring plate and bagel with lox pastrami. #FoodHistory #WomensHistory #NYCEats #JewishFood #HiddenHistory

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Janette Speyer (@janettespeyer.bsky.social)

In 1900 women could not even vote. But Joel Ross made his daughters partners. They ran one of New York’s most iconic food shops. “& Daughters” was a revolutionary statement. One that helped shape smoked fish, & female ownership. #FoodHistory #WomensHistory #NYCEats #JewishFood #foodculturebites

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Janette Speyer 22h ago

CarveHerName 1d ago

#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons

Stefan Bohacek 2d ago

On this day, 75 years ago, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized a 450-student strike that "helped lead to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregated schools".

https://theconversation.com/75-years-after-she-led-a-student-strike-that-helped-end-school-segregation-barbara-rose-johns-now-stands-in-the-us-capitol-where-robert-e-lee-once-did-273531

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #segregation #racism #BrownVBoard #BrownVBoardOfEducation

75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did

In December 2025, the statue of Barbara Rose Johns replaced that of Robert E. Lee as one of the two Virginians displayed in the U.S. Capitol. Here’s why.

The Conversation

Debbie Cameron 3d ago

For #StGeorge’sDay Doris Hatt In 1915,while at Goldsmiths College, London, she designed a First World War recruiting poster, featuring St George and the Dragon.She soon disowned her work as news came through of the appalling casualties of the conflict. #WomensHistory #WW1

CarveHerName 3d ago

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

CarveHerName 3d ago

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #WomensHistory #Histodons

FrugalGamer 3d ago

I was reading through the Wikipedia article on Tuvan Throat Singing, and came across this sentence:

"There were a few female throat singers in Tuva's history, though it was believed a woman performing throat singing could cause infertility"
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing

...and it just kind of made me go into a mini-rage spiral. Every culture is the SAME. Any time women get even remotely close to do anything that men do, it's all "IT'LL CASE INFERTILITY." In the west, people use to claim that women RIDING BICYCLES would cause infertility. FUCKING BICYCLES.

I need a "List of things that have caused infertility" a la "List of things women have died from in literature."
neveryetmelted.com/2016/05/31/things-women-in-literature-have-died-from/

#rant #feminist #feminism #frustrated #women #womenshistory #sexism