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Feb 10
February
Suffrage
Educator
Adella Hunt Logan
Educator, Suffragist and Administrator
Mar 3
March
Suffrage
1913 Women's Suffrage Procession
Cloaked in a desire for the right to vote, for women......
May 7
May
Medicine
Nursing
Suffrage
Civil Rights
Baptist
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary was the first licensed African American nurse in the United States and first African American graduate of an American nursing school. She was born in the spring of 1845 in Dorchester, Massachusetts to freed, formerly enslaved people who relocated from North Carolina for a chance at better civil and economic opportunities for their family.
Aug 31
August
Journalism
Suffrage
Activist
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Wow!
Sep 23
September
Suffrage
Journalism
Educator
Civil Rights
Mary Church Terrell
"A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex."
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