March 2: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Susanna M. Salter

Susanna M. Salter, mayor of Argonia, Kansas, was born today in 1860. She was the first woman elected as mayor and the first woman elected to any political office in the United States.

Gillette Hayden

Gillette Hayden, a pioneering dentist and periodontist, was born today in 1880. She founded the American Academy of Periodontology and served as its president.

Claudette Colvin

Today in 1955, 15-year-old Black teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white woman on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Elena Sánchez Valenzuela

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

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Watch Claudette Colvin talk about her experience with Democracy Now: