July 14: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

National Women’s Party

Today in 1917, 16 women from the National Women’s Party were arrested while picketing the White House demanding universal women’s suffrage. They were charged with obstructing traffic.


Gertrude Goldhaber

Gertrude Goldhaber, a physicist and an early researcher into nuclear structure and the properties of nuclei, was born today in 1911.


Muriel Snowden

Muriel Snowden, a civil rights worker co-founded Freedom House (1949) with her husband in Boston as a community organization to promote self-sufficiency and social justice. She was born today in 1916.