Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day 2024 is on Saturday, July 13, 2024: Who are some inspirational women?

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Madame C.J. Walker: The first self-made millionairess in history and the first Black woman millionaire in the U.S., she created beauty products for Black people. She used her money to help the Black community and hired thousands of Blacks in her factories and as salespeople.

Dr. Mary Walker: Dr. Mary Walker earned her degree 6 years after Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman doctor in the U.S. In January, 1866, Dr. Walker became the only woman ever to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor----for her bravery in providing medical care during the Civil War. When she became a suffrage activitist, the medal was rescinded and never again given to a woman. Trivia: She believed women's fashions in her day were so "inhumane and ridiculous." In protest, she wore men's clothing in all her business dealings. She was berated by both men and women for doing so.

Chien-Shiung Wu: Wu came to the U.S. to study science when she was a teenager. She became "the queen of nuclear physics." As a scientist at Columbia University, she studied the movement of atomic particles. She proved that one of the most basic laws of physics was not true at all. She disproved the accepted law that identical nuclear particles always act alike; this radically altered modern physical theory. Her male co-workers were later awarded the Nobel Prize for physics based on her discovery.

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Teacher (briefly before her marriage) and philanthropist, she built kindergartens, libraries and other institutions in the mining towns in which her husband, George, held interests. As early as 1891, she made a large gift to the University of CA in order to endow several scholarships for women students. Later she financed a school for the training of kindergarten teachers. In 1897, she founded the National Congress of Mothers, a forerunner of the National Council of Parents and Teachers. Read more about Phoebe Apperson Hearst and the National PTA.

Anne Hutchinson

A courageous critic of Puritan clergy, she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy, sedition, and "assuming postures to which only men were entitled." She then settled the town of Portsmouth, RI in 1638 and formed an independent congregation there. She helped pave the way for the adoption of religious freedom by our nation. Read more about Anne Hutchinson's courageous life and her exile from Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Jovita Idar

She lived in Laredo, Texas, right on the Mexican border. During the Mexican Revolution, many injured people went there, and she took care of them. She also wrote for Spanish-language newspapers and started schools for Mexican-American children. She co-founded the League of Mexican Women, which focused its work on education for poor children.

Marian Anderson

As a child, her voice was so stunning that her church set up a special fund for her music education. From the choir of a Black church in Philadelphia, she went on to an exceptional international career as concert and opera singer. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to perform in their auditorium, Constitution Hall, because she was Black. In triump,h she relocated her concert to the steps of the Lincolm Memorial and drew an audience of 75,000 people. Arturo Toscanini said, "A voice like hers comes once in a century."

Carrie Chapman Catt, Women's Rights Activist

[in a speech at the Senate] No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.