The Origins of Women’s History Month: A Legacy of Advocacy In 1978, a group of visionary educators from Sonoma County, California—Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett, and Bette Morganto—founded the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) in Santa Rosa. They were motivated by a crucial realization: women’s historical contributions were frequently overlooked or missing…
PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE honors Black History Month by featuring Pat Banks Edmiston, Undra Mays and Casey Grant who paved the way for future black stewardess careers in a short film on “Civil Rights in the Sky”. The film shows how these brave women fought strongly for their rights to have the job they wanted despite…
The Points Guy posted a great review, written by Harriet Baskas, about tonight’s PBS American Experience documentary. She mentions how Dusty and Jean entered the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission after the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII passed Congress and filed the first discrimination complaint in the country based on gender discrimination. In the…