On this day in 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt was born. As 1st Lady, she lobbied FDR to appoint more women & championed racial justice. In 1960, she chaired the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, which released a trailblazing study documenting the pervasiveness of sex discrimination. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1911, Cal. became the 6th state to extend equal voting rights to women. Bertha Margaret Boye created this poster for the Cal. referendum & it became the most popular poster from the woman suffrage movement. Suffragists called the poster’s yellow hue “the color of success.” #WeTheMen

On this day in 1911, suffragists & anti-suffs prepared for a California referendum the next day. Anti-suff Harry E. Deane said: “We now feel sure that a great many men have made the women promises without any intention of voting for them.” Maybe so, but suffs narrowly won the referendum. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1881, Esther Lape was born. She led the effort to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the Permanent Court of International Justice, which lost by 7 votes in 1935. She also fought the American Medical Association in mobilizing for universal health insurance. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1920, Kathryn Clarenback was born. She became a co-founder of the National Org. for Women & the driving force behind planning the 1977 National Women’s Conference, the first such conference the federal government had ever sponsored. #WeTheMen

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On this day in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She became a civil rights crusader who risked her life in mobilizing to make the right to vote a practical reality for people of color. She asked: “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave?” #WeTheMen

OTD in 1976, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Craig v. Boren. The all-male Court chose a trivial case w/ male plaintiffs—a challenge to OK’s sex-specific “near beer” law—to announce the standard the Ct. would apply when scrutinizing sex-based laws under the Equal Protection Clause. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1908, Eleanor Flexner was born. She became a pioneering women’s historian who wrote “Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States” (1959). The New York Times did not publish an obituary when she died in 1995. #WeTheMen

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On this day in 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened her first school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She went on to found Bethune-Cookman College and spend a lifetime advocating for civil rights. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a massive stroke that left him severely impaired. His wife, Edith Wilson, secretly took over much of her husband’s work for the rest of his term. #WeTheMen

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On this day in 1918, the Senate failed to pass the 19th A prohibiting sex-based disenfranchisement. Alice Paul, who led the more militant wing of the woman suffrage movement, was undaunted, contending: “This defeat is only temporary.” The Senate finally passed the 19th A on June 4, 1919. #WeTheMen

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On this day in 1889, the Wyoming state convention approved a constitution that extended equal voting rights to men and women. By 1914, all states west of the Rockies had adopted woman suffrage, while Kansas was the only woman suffrage state east of the Rockies. #WeTheMen

On this day in 2005, John Roberts became Chief Justice. Since then, US confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to historic lows. Many factors have contributed, including the Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and deny women the constitutional right to control their own lives. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1918, Sen Christie Benet (D-SC) announced his opposition to amending the Constitution to prohibit sex-based disenfranchisement. This meant that the amend. could not pass the Senate that year. The 19th A finally passed the Senate on June 4, 1919, with just 2 votes to spare. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1839, Frances Willard was born. She became a social reformer and the president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the nineteenth century’s largest U.S. organization of women. Willard championed woman suffrage and also mobilized to raise marriage ages for girls. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1960, British suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst died. Her radical tactics influenced the more militant wing of the American woman suffrage movement. Alice Paul, Lucy Burns & their colleagues were assaulted & arrested for picketing the White House. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1971, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the 1st black congresswoman, announced her intent to run for President. She declared that she was “Unbought & Unbossed” & promised “to represent all Americans.” She won 151 delegate votes at the Dem. Convention, but McGovern won the nomination. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1957, nine black students began their first full day of classes at previously all-white Central High in Little Rock. Entry required an armed escort from the U.S. Army, over the objection of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Six girls were part of the “Little Rock 9.” #WeTheMen