by Michele Genthon | Jun 30, 2020 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Mary McLeod Bethune, during her lifetime, was called “The First Lady of Negro America” and “The First Lady of the Struggle.” In 1974 she became the First African American Woman to have a statue installed in a public park within the District of Columbia. Mary McLeod...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 24, 2020 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
In early January 2019 Katherine A. Rowe was inaugurated as the First Woman President of the college of William and Mary, three and one-quarter centuries after it was founded. I began to wonder what took so long, especially for a college named after a woman. Then I...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 16, 2020 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
“Race and sex were twin strikes against me. I’m not sure which was the hardest to break down.” [Alice Dunnigan] Alice Dunnigan had an impressive record for breaking barriers. She has multiple firsts to her name, the First Black Woman to report the...
![Eliza Lucas Pinckney [1722 – 1793] – First Woman Inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame](https://michelegenthon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ELIZA-LUCAS-PINCKNEY-e1591572418870.png)
by Michele Genthon | Jun 10, 2020 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
Independence is all I wish, and a little will make us that.[Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1779] Eliza Lucas was 16 years old when she took over the management of her family’s three plantations in South Carolina. She had been dead for almost 200 years when she became the First...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 3, 2020 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
“If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.” [Sarah Caldwell] Sarah Caldwell was the First Woman to conduct the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. A producer, director, and impresario, as well as an opera conductor, she was...
