December 3, 1842Birth
of Ellen Swallow Richards, chemist and domestic scientist.
December 5, 1784 Death
of Phillis Wheatley, a freed slave who learned Greek and Latin,
became a poet, and wowed English royalty. Wheatley proved equal
intellectual capacity of African-Americans to a country that
wanted and needed to believe that black people were intellectually
inferior.
December 6 National
Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada),
in memory of the 1989 Montreal murder of 14 women murdered in
an anti-woman hate crime.
December 10, 1931 Jane Addams, a founder Hull House in Chicago
and president of the Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom, won the Nobel Peace Prize.
