Shelby Knox, featured in the amazing film "The Education of Shelby Knox," is starting a calendar project that will feature daily posts with events in Women's History! Even though some of the entries thus far may not strike you immediately as "radical," the acknowledgement that women have a distinguishable recorded history is radical in and of itself. The project started on January 1st and will continue everyday for an entire year. Check it out!!!
My favorites so far:
January 1st,1977: Jacqueline Means becomes the first woman ordained in the Episcopal Church with official sanction.
January 2nd,1857: M. Carey Thomas, 1st female dean in the US, 2nd president of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, born.
January 11th,1935: Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, CA, becoming the 1st woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
January 18th, 1777: Baltimore newspaper publisher and postmaster Mary Katherine Goddard produced the first printed copy of the US Declaration of Independence.
Keep the Women's History coming, because this history buff is LOVING it.
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