FEBRUARY 14: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

The League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters is founded as "a mighty experiment" at the Victory Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago, Illinois, in 1920.

Katherine Stinson

Katherine Stinson, the fourth licensed woman pilot in the country, was born today in 1891. She was the first woman to “loop the loop” and the first woman to fly in Asia, drawing 25,000 to watch in Tokyo.

Deeper Dive

From the spirit of the suffrage movement and the shock of the First World War came a great idea - that a nonpartisan civic organization could provide the education and experience the public needed to assure the success of democracy. The League of Women Voters was founded on that idea. Read more.