July 2, 1937Amelia Earhart's
plane disappeared over the South Pacific on what was supposed
to be her around-the-world flight.
July 3, 1860Birth
of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of Women and Economics
and the dramatic chronicle of her own depression, The Yellow
Wallpaper.
July 6, 1957Althea
Gibson became the first black person to win the British
tennis championship at Wimbleton.
July 10, 1865Birth
of Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of the National Council
of Negro Women.
July 19, 1848Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott launched the first women's
rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
July 20, 1939Birth
of feminist artist Judy Chicago, creator of The Dinner
Party and other groundbreaking works.
July 22, 1849Birth of Emma Lazarus, author of the verse on the Statue
of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled
masses yearning to breathe free..."
July 30, 1818Birth
of Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights.
