On this day in 1876, Mary Ritter Beard was born. Her 1946 book, Woman as Force in History, criticized male historians for ignoring women. She argued that women “have been a force in making all the history that has been made.” A male reviewer called Beard’s book “rather waspish.” #WeTheMen

On this day in 1890, Barbara Armstrong was born. In 1919, she became the 1st female law professor at Berkeley. The school didn’t hire another female professor until 1960. Armstrong was a key advocate pushing for the 1935 Social Security Act, minimum wage laws & universal health insurance. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1905, Maggie Kuhn was born. She became a senior rights activist and co-founded the Gray Panthers in 1970, after she was forced out of her job at 65 and given a sewing machine as a parting gift. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1776, the 2d Continental Congress began signing the printed version of the Dec. of Independence. It declared “that all men are created equal.” In 1848, the first U.S. woman’s rights convention improved on that idea, declaring “that all men & women are created equal.” #WeTheMen

On this day in 1870, Utah’s territorial elections included women for the first time. Utah women voted until 1887, when Congress chose the year of the Constitution’s centennial to enact an anti-polygamy statute with a provision reinstating women’s disenfranchisement in the Utah territory. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1913, suffragists from across the nation gathered in Hyattsville, MD, and drove together to the Senate to present a petition with 85,000 signatures. Anti-suffragists dismissed the event as “cheap advertising.” #WeTheMen

On this day in 1940, Pat Schroeder was born. She became the first woman to represent Colorado in Congress and ran for president in 1988. She said: “When people ask me why I am running [for office] as a woman, I always answer: ‘What choice do I have?’” #WeTheMen

Short answer: The Constitution doesn't give the President the authority to change election rules on his own.

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@jillhasday.bsky.social, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor in Law, was interviewed on @wccoradio.bsky.social’s Adam and Jordana Show discussing Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to restrict mail-in voting. z.umn.edu/bg7f

On this day in 1936, Elizabeth Dole was born. When she ran for president in 2000, she had already been a Secretary of Transportation & a Secretary of Labor. One study of the news coverage of Dole’s presidential campaign found that 16.7% of the articles mentioned her dress & appearance. #WeTheMen

On this day in 2016, Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. She said: “I’m so happy this day has come . . . . because when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone. When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit.” #WeTheMen

Want to know more about Trump’s effort to get the Supreme Court to uphold his executive order limiting mail-in voting? This morning at 9:35, I will be on WCCO radio with Adam Carter & Jordana Green. @wcconews.bsky.social

On this day in 1874, Alice Duer Miller was born. She became a poet, playwright, and novelist. From 1914 to 1917, she used her witty NY Tribune column to argue for woman suffrage. She titled the column: Are Women People? New York finally ended sex-based disenfranchisement in 1917. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1879, Lucy Burns was born. During the battle for the Nineteenth Amendment, Burns led most picketing for the National Woman’s Party and spent more days in jail than any other American fighting for woman suffrage. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1917, the bank functioning as landlord for Cameron House, National Woman’s Party headquarters, informed the suffragists that they had three months to vacate the premises. The bankers reportedly objected to how the suffragists were picketing the White House during WWI. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1990, the Americans with Disability Act was signed into law, prohibiting disability discrimination in employment, accommodations, telecommunications, and more. Activist Patrisha Wright was a key force leading the lobbying campaign for the ADA. Allies called her “The General.”

On this day in 1897, Elizabeth Packard died. Her husband had her committed to an asylum for 3 years by falsely claiming that she was insane. After getting out, she pushed for an 1867 Illinois law guaranteeing public hearings before anyone, including wives, could be institutionalized. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1920, Bella Abzug was born. She spent her life championing feminism & civil rights. When Abzug first ran for Congress in 1970, she declared: “This woman’s place is in the House . . . the House of Representatives!” She won & many female candidates have repeated her slogan. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1937, women finally convinced Congress to repeal a 1932 law providing that layoffs of federal employees would target married people whose spouses also worked for the federal government. Predictably, many more wives than husbands lost their jobs. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1939, Mildred Jeter was born. After she married Richard Loving in 1958, Virginia prosecuted the couple for violating the state’s interracial marriage ban. The Lovings sued to challenge the ban’s constitutionality and won in the Supreme Court in 1967. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1939, Jane Bolin became the first black female judge in the US. In 1958, she said this about women’s rights: “Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have to fight every inch of the way — in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” #WeTheMen

OTD in 1923, the Nat’l Woman’s Party launched its campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment declaring that: “Men & women shall have equal rights throughout the US & every place subject to its jurisdiction.” Today, the Constitution still does not include an explicit commitment to sex equality. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1970, Rep. Martha Griffiths collected enough signatures (218 out of 435 House members) for a discharge petition that freed the Equal Rights Amendment from the House Judiciary Committee. Committee Chair Emanuel Celler had kept the ERA trapped for decades without a hearing. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1848, 300 people gathered for the first woman’s rights convention in the United States. The Seneca Falls Convention adopted a Declaration of Sentiments that proclaimed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.” www.nps.gov/wori/learn/h...

On this day in 1891, Doris Fleischman was born. She became a feminist, kept her last name after marrying in 1922, and was the first married American woman to have a passport issued under her “maiden name.” She told authorities that she did not want “to travel under a false name.” #WeTheMen

On this day in 1917, suffragist Elizabeth Rogers was sent to jail for picketing the White House. She told the judge that women were protesting “the President of the United States, who has the power to start in motion the machinery which will give women suffrage and who does not do so.” #WeTheMen

On this day in 1862, Ida B. Wells was born. She became a journalist, civil rights champion, and anti-lynching crusader. Wells lobbied Congress to pass anti-lynching legislation, but Congress did not make lynching a federal hate crime until 2022. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1864, Maggie Lena Walker was born to enslaved parents. She became the 1st woman to charter a US bank. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank helped African American customers in the South help themselves when public institutions would not. #WeTheMen www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

Biography: Maggie Lena Walker

Entrepreneur Maggie Lena Walker transformed black business practices and gained national prominence as the first woman to own a bank in the United States. Read more at womenshistory.org.

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On this day in 1917, sixteen suffragists picketing the White House were arrested & sentenced to two months in the Occoquan Workhouse for “obstructing traffic.” Amelia Himes Walker was one of them. After the 19th Amendment’s ratification, she continued to work for woman’s rights & the ERA. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1848, Jane Hunt, Mary Ann McClintock, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martha Wright decided to hold the first woman’s rights convention in the United States. They scheduled the meeting to begin on July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, NY, and began spreading the news. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1984, Walter Mondale (UMN Law ’56) named Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first female vice presidential nominee from a major party. She said: “This choice says a lot about [Mondale], about where the country has come, and about where we want to lead it.” #WeTheMen