We forget how relatively recently women had to fight for the simplest most basic rights.
"On this day in 1923, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty pronounced it legal for women to wear trousers anywhere."
Now when will it be pronounced legal for women to take responsibility for their own bodies?
I'm having a hard time finding a reference to this by a serious source. So far, all I've found is "wacky history" type websites blowing your mind with this factoid without any citations. Can you point me in a direction? I'll check out my library's online newspaper archives, but that might take a bit.
I searched the New York Times archive for the word "Daugherty", from May 28-30, 1923. The only thing I found was an article about him denying that he was going to resign.
Also, nothing relevant in Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. That's all my library has online.
Maybe I could get into some smaller feminist papers if I visited the University library in person. But for now, I'm suspicious of this.
John Shirley
Michelle Hughes