JANUARY 3: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
Lucretia Coffin Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott was born today in 1793. She was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She is perhaps best known for her work to organize a women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York (now known as the Seneca Falls Convention).
Anne Ayres
Anne Ayres, a nun and founder of the first Episcopalian religious order for women, was born in 1816.
Aretha Franklin
In 1987, Aretha Franklin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of fame. She was the first woman artist to receive that honor.
Sophia B. Packard, the co-founder of the institution that would become Spelman College, was born today in 1824
Sophia B. PackarD
In 1924, Sadie Peterson Delaney opened the Veteran’s Library at the Tuskegee, AL Veterans Administration Hospital. Here she pioneered the field of bibliotherapy – “the treatment of a patient through selected reading.” Delaney, one of a proud tradition of Black female librarians, served at the library she founded for 34 years.
Sadie Peterson Delaney
1905, Anna May Wong was born in Los Angeles. She would go on to become the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American actor to become an international star. Her television series, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, was the first U.S. television show starring an Asian-American.
Anna May Wong
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Aretha Franklin had many great hits. Here's one: