JANUARY 8: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

ELLA T. GRASSO

On this day in 1975, Ella T. Grasso became Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.

THE REVOLUTION

In 1868, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury published the first edition of The Revolution, which became one of the most important radical periodicals of the women's movement, although it circulates for less than three years. Its motto: "Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!"

In 1977, Pauli Murray was ordained as the first female African American Episcopal priest. A poet, writer, activist, labor organizer, and legal theorist as well, she was an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement.

Carolina Herrera

DEEPER DIVE

You can view issues from The Revolution on Lewis & Clark's Digital Collection here.