JULY 22: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus wrote “The New Colossus,” later inscribed on the Statue of Liberty (“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”). She was born today in 1849.

Miriam Underhill

Miriam Underhill, a mountaineer who participated in the first all-women ascent of the Matterhorn in 1932, was born today in 1898. She developed “manless climbing,” or all-women climbing groups.

Jane Bolin

Jane Bolin, the first African American woman judge in the United States, was born today in 1908. She was also the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department.

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