Exhibition of works female artists working in France and Sweden circa 1750-1860.
National Museum, Stockholm, 27 September 2012 - 20 January 2013.
From the landmark civil rights case, Mendez v. Westminster, which desegregated California schools:
The equal protection of the laws’ pertaining to the public school system in California is not provided by furnishing in separate schools the same technical facilities, text books and courses of instruction to children of Mexican ancestry that are available to the other public school children regardless of their ancestry. A paramount requisite in the American system of public education is social equality. It must be open to all children by unified school association regardless of lineage.
From the decision of Judge Paul J. McCormick, from Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County, 1946.
The entire case is available online through the National Archives website. Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ enter ARC Identifier 294939. Read full transcripts from the case.
¡Celebración de la Herencia Hispana!
To pay tribute to the many generations of Hispanic Americans that have enriched our nation’s history, the National Archives at Riverside will be highlighting some of our holdings relating to Hispanic American history in our region (Southern California, Arizona, and Clark County, NV), including records relating to Private Land Claims, Immigration and Naturalization, military service and many more.
For more information about Hispanic Heritage Month, see http://hispanicheritagemonth.gov/
On September 25, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to be sworn in as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Reagan had nominated O’Connor earlier that summer, and he wrote in his White House diary, “Called Judge O’Connor in Ariz. and told her she was my nominee for Supreme Ct. Already the flack is starting and from my own supporters… I think she’ll make a good Justice.”
O’Connor helped inspire a generation of women to pursue careers in law—when she was appointed, thirty-six percent of law school students were women; by the time she retired from the court in 2006 that percentage had risen to forty-eight percent.
Last year, O’Connor spoke to a group of high school students at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley and told them:
“It was exciting to be the first, but I did not want to be the last.”
Photo: Sandra Day O’Connor being sworn in as Supreme Court Justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger. Her husband, John O’Connor looks on. 9/25/81.
More from the Center for Legislative Archives
June 30, 1965. Lady Bird attends the ceremony for National Head Start Day. Head Start began as an 8-week summer program as part of LBJ’s War on Poverty. Since then, the program has expanded to include children of all ages and offers services all year. For more info, check out this page on the program’s history at the Office of Head Start’s website.
Front Row L-R: Timothy Shriver, Robert Shriver, Danny Kaye, Lady Bird Johnson, Mrs. Lou Maginn (Director of a HeadStart project in East Fairfield, Vermont), Sargent Shriver.
Dominique Moceanu bounded on to the world stage in 1996 as the youngest member of the “Magnificent Seven,” the US’s first Olympic gold medal winning women’s gymnastics team. Today she is a mother of two and an author. Her memoir, Off Balance, starts with the story of her parent’s marriage and follows her life to the present day.
Previously I read Shawn Johnson’s Winning Balance. For me, Off Balance is a much more interesting book. Dominique is ten years older than Shawn, which gives her more life experiences to write about and more distance her period as a teenage Olympian. Dominique also seems to have had a much more challenging life than Shawn, from her tumultuous childhood to her discovery of an unknown sister at age 23.
Off Balance is worth picking up if you’re a gymnastics fan …or if you want to find out more about that secret sister.
The Go For the Gold Gymnasts, Dominique’s children’s books, on Amazon
natalka01 asked: Do you want to upgrade your tags, specifically USSR, by un-lumping almost all Eastern European countries in with Russia? The Ukraine one only has one woman/post, and Ukraine is a country bigger than France. Lovely blog, great description of things you like, and great finds.
(For anyone who doesn’t know, non-US history posts are tagged by country, list here)
The country tags are a little bit loose. I’ve kept the USSR as a tag because the centralized control it exerted was a big part of history, but most posts have the contemporary country name as well (Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, etc). There are a lot of countries I’ve posted very little or nothing about, which is less than ideal. But it comes down to what I know about and what I can easily find. Some countries put more online than others. Sources in English are better for some countries than others, like look at the difference between Wikipedia’s category of French women by occupation and the same section for Ukrainian women (I have issues with Wikipedia). Plus a lot of the French posts are reblogs from the lovely French History.
This is a work in progress of little history posts, but it is hard to make it balanced considering how much more history there is online from some countries when compared to others.
In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics.
Smithsonian Magazine, October 2008
Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina in space.
Ellen has spent nearly 1,000 hours in space over four missions conducting atmospheric research and visiting the International Space Station. Today she is Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ellen is also a co-inventor on patents for an optical inspection system, an optical object recognition method, and a method for noise removal in images.
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy hosts a tea party for wives of new ambassadors. The guests stand in front of the grand staircase in the Entrance Hall of the White House.
Guests include: Neila Zouiten Bourguiba (wife of Ambassador Habib Bourguiba, Jr. of Tunisia); Mrs. Frédéric Guirma of Upper Volta; Mrs. Sergio Fenoaltea of Italy (first name unknown); Helena Drozniak (wife of Ambassador Edward Drozniak of Poland); Mrs. Michel Gallin-Douathe of Central African Republic; Seelawathie Rambukwella Gopallawa (wife of Ambassador William Gopallawa of Ceylon); Mrs. Matrika Prasad Koirala of Nepal; Nepalese interpreter Bhinda Malla; Mrs. Il Kwon Chung of South Korea; Mrs. Emmanuel Datnongo Dadet of Congo; Virginia Rusk (wife of Secretary of State Dean Rusk); Mrs. Ousmane Diop of Senegal; Mrs. Seydou Conte of Guinea.
Though it was the convention of the time, I really hate it when women are listed as Mrs. Husband’s First and Last Name. A quick google search suggests Mrs. Il Kwon Chung may be Park Hye Soo as that is the name given for his wife in this 1994 obit (although it may be a later marriage).
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Thérèse Peltier (1873 – 1926) was a French sculptress and aviator. Popularly believed to have been the first ever woman passenger in an airplane she should perhaps instead be recognised as the first woman to pilot a heavier-than-air craft. A friend of fellow sculptor Leon Delagrange when he became interested in aviation Peltier soon followed](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_malbltNClq1r4iw2yo1_500.jpg)
Issy[-les-Moulineaux], Thérèse Peltier [aviatrice] sur le Delagrange (17 septembre 1908) : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]
Thérèse Peltier (1873 – 1926) was a French sculptress and aviator. Popularly believed to have been the first ever woman passenger in an airplane she should perhaps instead be recognised as the first woman to pilot a heavier-than-air craft. A friend of fellow sculptor Leon Delagrange when he became interested in aviation Peltier soon followed
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