1884: Ida B. Wells refused to leave a first-class car. It took three men to drag her off. She sued and won; the Tennessee Supreme Court took it back. 1892: run out of Memphis for her newspaper, she published Southern Horrors. 134 years ago this month.

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June 1972: the FCC ruled 5-0 that Shirley Chisholm had no right to equal TV time with her rivals. That night a federal court overruled it. The first Black woman elected to Congress. Unbought and unbossed. On November 3, we vote again.

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1944: Recy Taylor was assaulted by six white men in Abbeville, Alabama. They threatened to kill her if she told. She told anyway. Rosa Parks took her case. Two grand juries refused to indict. Asked in 2011 if anything happened to them: "No ma'am, nothing."

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Fannie Lou Hamer was beaten in a Mississippi jail for trying to vote. When she told the nation in 1964, the President called a press conference and the networks cut away. She asked: "Is this America?" She'd have turned 109 on Tuesday.

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The Supreme Court called Mitsuye Endo an American citizen. Her own country had locked her up anyway. Offered a way out, she stayed behind the fence so her case would be heard, and her win helped close the camps.

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The government counted 3,406 sterilizations of Native women in four years. Of 113 consent forms it checked, not one fully met the rules. It never asked the women.

Dr. Connie Pinkerman-Uri did.

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Alice Ball made chaulmoogra oil into a leprosy treatment the body could absorb. She died in 1916, aged 24, unpublished, and the papers that followed never named her. In 1922 the doctor who asked her printed two words: Ball's method. #HerHistory

In 1933 a Nobel laureate refused Kamala Bhagvat a place at India's top science institute because she was a woman. She sat in at his office until he relented. A year later the institute admitted women. Cambridge PhD, 1939, 40 pages. Kamala Sohonie. #HerHistory

In 1966 a nurse in Queens and her husband filed a patent: a door camera, a bedside screen, two-way audio, a remote lock, a radio alarm. Never built. Today 40 patents cite it — including Ring's. Marie Van Brittan Brown. #HerHistory