EDSITEment Calendar for March
 Women's History Month

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 LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan (ALA) = Additional Learning Activity   * = This Month's Activity
M TU W TH F SA/SU
   
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1915 Born-Ralph Ellison, author of The Invisible Man

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1896 Ethiopian army defeats Italians at the Battle of Adwa African Voices (w)

 

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Women and Social Movements in the United States,
1830-1930 (W)
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1917 Peace activist & suffragist Jeanette Rankin first woman elected to US House of Representatives Women & Social Movement in US 1775-1940 (W) 		5
National Portrait Gallery:

Seneca Falls Convention July 19-20, 1848 (W)

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1806 Born - British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian Web (W)

1857 Dred Scott decision of Supreme Court - Blacks could not be US citizens Oyez, Oyez, Oyez (W) (LP)

1957: Ghana becomes independent from Great Britain Art and Life in Africa Online: Ghana (w)

 
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Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 1965

"We Shall Overcome": Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
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1908 First International Women's Day, founded by German labor activist Clara Zetkin

1981 President Carter proclaims "National Women's History Week"

1987 Congress declares "National Women's History Month"

Great American Speeches (W) Hillary Rodham Clinton at 4th UN Conference on Women, Beijing, China, Sep. 5, 1995

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1854 Born - Hallie Quinn Brown, women's right activist

1892 Born - Vita Sackville-West, British novelist and poet

 

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1913 Death of Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor who rescued more than 300 of her people from slavery Spirituals (W)
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1993 Janet Reno first woman US Attorney General
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1907 Financial panic plunges stock market - economic depression begins Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)


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Annie Oakley

Women of the West Museum (W) 		15
Al Hijra - Islamic New Year 		16

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American Memory:

Women Pioneers in American Memory--Suffrage (ALA)
18

1842 Born - French symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme 		19
Molly Brown

Scripting the Past (LP)		 20
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe,
White abolitionist, publishes
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (W)
American Studies at University of Virginia (W)

2002 Vernal Equinox - 1st day of spring
21
Sasan B. Anthony

History of Education (W) 		22
1972 After languishing since 1923, the ERA is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification
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1940 Born - Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo Lire Les Femmes Écrivains et les Littératures Africaines (W)
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1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 immigrant women workers New Deal Network (W) 		26
1874 Born - Robert Frost Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)

1911 Born - Tennessee Williams		 27
First Lady Helen Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant first cherry trees in Washington, DC 1912

Women in the White House (LP)
 28
2002 1st day Pesach
(Passover) - Jewish
29
1973 U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam

 30 Martha Washington

Picturing First Families (LP)
31 1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution Remember the Ladies

2002 Easter - Christian Gregorian