November 8, 1897 Birth of
Dorothy Day, radical humanitarian and pacifist who founded the
Catholic Worker.
November 11, 1744Birth
of Abigail Adams, who urged her husband, John, to "remember
the ladies." He laughed.
November 12, 1815 Birth
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, co-organizer of the first women’s
rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. She went on to form an
alliance with Susan B. Anthony to continue the fight for women’s
rights until both died, still denied the right to vote.
November 14, 1917 "Night
of Terror," when suffragists were imprisoned and brutalized
after picketing the White House, demanding the right to vote.
November 16, 1916Margaret
Sanger was arrested in Brownsville, NY, for operating a
birth control clinic -- the first in the US. She went on to
found Planned Parenthood.
November 17, 1637Anne
Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
for defying the colony’s male religious leaders.
November 18, 1787Birth
of Sojourner Truth, whose "Aren't I a Woman"
speech electrified an 1851 Ohio women's rights convention.
November 23, 1921
Passage of the Sheppard-Towner Act, providing federal funds
to states for instruction in maternity and infant care, under
the leadership of Julia Lathrop, first head of the Children’s
bureau, with huge efforts from women’s organizations.
November 25 Women’s
Merrymaking Day celebrated in ancient times.
November 26, 1792Birth
of Sarah Grimke, abolitionist and women's rights advocate.
