JULY 27: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Myrtle Lawrence

Myrtle Lawrence, a sharecropper and labor organizer, worked within biracial Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union from 1936 to 1943. She was born today in 1891.

Helen Wolff

Helen Wolff, an editor and publisher, published many acclaimed translations under the imprint “A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book” at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. She later founded Pantheon Books with her husband in 1942. She was born today in 1906.

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