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 28, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Please Note: All words in italics are direct quotes from Jeannette Rankin. The other words are from my research on this historical dynamo or from my imagination. Thank you to Ana Maria Spagna and Laura Pritchett for proposing this in one of their workshops. As the...
by Michele Genthon | Mar 30, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
An African-American Woman, the First in the history of Chicago, a city where minorities are in the majority and one-third of the population is black. The election is not until Tuesday, April 2nd, but the two candidates who are in the run-off are both African American...
by Michele Genthon | Feb 3, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Since 1922, a large percentage of the women who have gone to Congress have been First Women, the first to serve, the first to serve without following a husband into a position, the first to be elected, the first from a specific state, the first woman of color, and...
by Michele Genthon | Jan 24, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
The media has been abuzz with news about the number of new women entering the 116thCongress, and we should celebrate! However, that celebration should be tempered a bit. When we look at the United States Senate, we find that the number of women did not increase in the...
by Michele Genthon | Jan 1, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Happy New Year! In 2019 we will see some exciting women participating in the U.S. Congress for the first time—and I will be writing about them. Let’s start the year though with some exciting news out of the Western United States. Nevada is the first state in the...
