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OTD in 1972, the 1st standalone issue of Ms. debuted. Gloria Steinem & Dorothy Pitman Hughes wanted to translate “a movement into a magazine.” They did, disproving critics like newsman Harry Reasoner who said: “I’ll give it 6 months before they run out of things to say.”#WeTheMen
On this day in 1917, Lena Horne was born. She combined her singing career with civil rights activism, fighting for contracts guaranteeing that African Americans could attend her shows and insisting that she and her band be allowed to stay wherever they performed. #WeTheMen
OTD in 1966, the National Org. for Women was founded: “The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.” #WeTheMen
OTD in 1992, the Supreme Ct upheld abortion rights in Casey. The now-overruled opinion observed that “the ability of women to participate equally in the economic & social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.” #WeTheMen
On this day in 1919, Texas became the first southern state to ratify the 19th Amendment prohibiting sex-based denials of the vote. Texas suffragists had already won partial enfranchisement & they used that voting power to push for the 19th Amendment. #WeTheMen
OTD in 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the S Carolina State House flagpole & took down the Confederate flag. She was arrested for her civil disobedience & the flag was put back, but her actions drew attention to the issue. SC removed the flag from the capitol on 7/9/2015. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1913, women in Illinois won the right to vote for President, the first such victory east of the Mississippi River. Illinois preserved other sex-based disenfranchisement until the 19th Amendment’s ratification in 1920. #WeTheMen
OTD in 1996, the SupCt held that the Virginia Military Institute’s exclusion of women was unconstitutional. The Court explained that gov'ts cannot deny “to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature.” The Court later went in a different direction. #WeTheMen
OTD in 1970, a fed court in NYC ruled in favor of Faith Seidenberg & Karen DeCrow, “2 determined ladies” from the National Organization for Women, who sued McSorleys’ Old Ale House to challenge the bar’s 114-year policy of refusing “to serve women under any conditions.” #WeTheMen
On this day in 1988, the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, finally voted to accept female members after debating the topic for approximately two decades. #WeTheMen #BetterLateThanNever
OTD in 1873, a fed. court tried Susan B. Anthony for illegally voting in Rochester. The judge directed the all-white male jury to find SBA guilty, but didn’t sentence her to prison or pursue the $100 fine she refused to pay b/c he wanted to block her ability to appeal. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1937, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt told an interviewer: “there will be a woman President some day, but that day is not yet here.”
We are still waiting. #WeTheMen
OTD in 1866, Congress passed the 14th Amendment, which prohibits states from denying “any person” “the equal protection of the laws.” Sex discrimination remained pervasive, but it took the Supreme Court until 1971 to strike down a law for denying women equal protection. #WeTheMen
OTD in 1963, the Equal Pay Act became law, prohibiting sex discrim. in wages for the same job in the same workplace. Rep. Edith Green (D-OR) introduced the bill in 1955 & fought for 8 years to make it law. Her male colleagues called her the “Wicked Witch of the West.” #WeTheMen
On this day in 1921, Phyllis Wallace was born. She became a trailblazing economist studying sex and race discrimination in employment at the EEOC and as the first female professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. #WeTheMen
OTD in 1965, the Supreme Ct in Griswold v. Connecticut struck down a Connecticut law criminalizing the use of contraception. Estelle Griswold, executive director of Planned Parenthood Connecticut, openly violated the law and was arrested to set the test case in motion. #WeTheMen
OTD in 1916, East Cleveland became the 1st city east of the Miss River to empower women to vote in municipal elections. After the measure passed (936-508), suffragists gathered to celebrate. “There were shouts & songs & much laughing & exchanging of congratulations.” #WeTheMen
On this day in 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law. Trump wants to keep Jackson’s image on the front of the $20 bill. I prefer Harriet Tubman. #WeTheMen
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On this day in 1787, fifty-five state delegates, all white men, convened in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States. The Constitution they drafted purports to speak for “We the People,” but it has never protected all Americans equally. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1913, suffragists marched from Mineola to Hempstead, New York, in Long Island’s first suffrage parade. At the parade’s end, the suffragists held a rally calling for female enfranchisement that drew a 5,000-plus audience. #WeTheMen
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