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Women’s History Month
On this day in…
1831, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, was born. She is credited with writing the first American detective novel.
1860, Susanna M. Salter, mayor of Argonia, Kansas, was born. She was the first woman elected as mayor and the first woman elected to any political office in the United States.
1880, Gillette Hayden, a pioneering dentist and periodontist, was born. She founded the American Academy of Periodontology and served as its president.
1900, Elena Sánchez Valenzuela, one of the first Mexican silent film stars, was born.
1903, the Martha Washington Hotel opens in New York City, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1955, 15-year-old Black teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white woman on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
On this day (yesterday) in…
1978, Women’s History Week is first observed in Sonoma County, California
1987, Congress passes a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month
Yesterday one of my dear friends got the news that her mom didn’t have long to live, like less than 24 hours. By the time you read this she may have let go and passed on. It’s been coming for a while now but still, it’s awful and I hate it. I am just sick that I can’t travel to be with my friend during this hard, hard time. I also heard from another friend that her stepdad passed away this weekend after a long illness. Another friend lost her mom and two grandmothers in the last year, and honestly, it’s too much. This is too much loss for people my age, isn’t it? It feels like we’re too young to be losing our parents but I guess we aren’t. So many of my friends have lost one or both of their parents, and I feel incredibly lucky that mine are still here.
Life is fragile, friends. Please never take it for granted.