APRIL 13: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty, a writer and photographer, was born today in 1909. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973 and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Clara Beyer
Clara Beyer, a labor lawyer, was born today in 1892. She worked with Frances Perkins and Molly Dewson on the Social Security Act of 1935 and campaigned to abolish child labor and to secure minimum wage and maximum hour scales.