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...
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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...
by Michele Genthon | May 26, 2020 | Aviation and Space, FIRST WOMEN
NASA is sending another telescope like the Hubble into space, and it has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. For the first time in NASA’s 61-year history, a billion dollar program has been named for a woman. “[Naming the telescope after Roman]...
by Michele Genthon | May 19, 2020 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. [Victoria Woodhull] In 1870, the New York Herald published a letter to the editor written by Victoria Claflin Woodhull, announcing her...
by Michele Genthon | May 12, 2020 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
May Sinchi Breen was called “The Ukulele Lady,” and even “The Goddess of Uke,” but her love of the instrument was not instant. When she was 30 years old Breen received a ukulele as a Christmas present, but she took it back to the department store to exchange it for a...
