Girls in costume sit in front of Budda during Autumn Moon Festival in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, 1939
"Intended as a term of derision, it was nevertheless swiftly appropriated by the suffragettes themselves. Rather than a mark of stigmatization, it became a positive badge of identity — of shared aims and aspirations."
Pat Eng, found of New York Asian Women’s Center, via Makers
Petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association for passage of the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” sent to Congress on May 2, 1916
The amendment passed Congress on June 4, 1919. It was ratified as the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920.Petition from Texas Woman Suffrage Association, 5/2/1916, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives (ARC 306659)
Space physicist Virginia Carter in her lab at Aerospace Corp. in CA, 1972.
How does a women go from being a physics researcher to an executive producer in television? Virginia Carter has quite an amazing story:
“It was 1973. I was working at the Aerospace Corporation, flying pioneering satellite experiments, but my other major interest was in the burgeoning field of feminism. Although I was very middle-of-the-road politically, I became an extreme activist in the feminist community, even serving for two years as president of the Los Angeles branch of the National Organization for Women. I gave speeches, lobbied the media, and generally made noises that were heard. I met Frances Lear through our common activism in the feminist movement. Her husband, Norman, was three years into the revolution that he had created in television with All in the Family.”
After working as a researcher for 10 years, Carter made a sudden career move into TV programming:
“Norman’s great contribution to television at that point in his career was to bring significant social issues to prime time comedy. Under his leadership the sitcom became politicized. Norman found me, through Frances, because of my expertise about the Women’s Movement. I knew more about that than Norman did, or Frances, or almost any other person in Hollywood at the time.”
(Image via UCLA’s superb collection of LA Times Photography)
Pre-1800 Asian/Pacific Islander women of note?
Now is so the time for those suggestions
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Photos from previous posts: Ho Miu Ling (Madame Wu Ting Fang), Indira Gandhi, Uzbek girl engineer, Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, Philippine schoolgirls, and Japanese mother and daughter.
May Day celebrations at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.
“The Queen and Attendants” - ca. 1930
May Pole dance - 1910
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As Queen you were fully conscious of the responsibilities attached to your position. You were utterly dedicated to the duties of your office. But you were also a daughter, a wife, a mother and head of the family. And you have always sought to do full justice to each of those responsibilities. Sometimes you felt torn, but you combined your many duties with great inspiration. You never refused a request for help. Even in times of personal sorrow you supported us all in the most loving and dependable manner.
With the help of my father, you developed your own style as Queen. You never chose the easy path of fleeting popularity. You navigated stormy waters, charting a sure and steady course in the knowledge that you were part of a long tradition.
Now, I follow in your footsteps. And I have a clear picture of my duties. No one knows what the future may hold. But wherever my path leads, and however long it may be, I will always carry with me your warmth and your wisdom.
I know that I speak for many in the Netherlands and in the Caribbean parts of our Kingdom when I say: thank you for all the wonderful years in which you served as our Queen.
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King Willem-Alexander speaking of his mother, Queen Beatrix, on the occasion of his investiture, 30 April 2013.
Full speech at source.
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