These snippets about American women, stitching together individuals and events, create a colorful quilt from the patchwork of our history, weaving a tapestry from many strands, knitting connections, perhaps mending the fabric of our democracy with facts.
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MAY 17, 1954: BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION & CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY
Note: I’ve written about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision before, because it is a pillar of civil rights law. Patterns of segregation continue to divide our democracy.
On a Monday in May, 1954, the Supreme Court announced its...
LOOSE ENDS: 5.15.26
Your responses to MOTHER’S DAY & MIFEPRISTONE (5.10) were more furious than fond. Someone suggested a new name for the second Sunday in May: “Out of respect for all who mother. I propose Happy Mothering be our expression. All can mother and...
MAY 10, 2026: MOTHER'S DAY & MIFEPRISTONE
On the second Sunday in May, American moms, grandmothers, godmothers and sometimes stepmothers are celebrated with cards, bouquets and breakfast in bed. According to the National Retail Association, the holiday has become one of the most pr...
MAY 2-10, 1963: FROM THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE TO CALLAIS
The struggle to advance civil rights for Black Americans was long, hard-fought and often deadly. Small steps, even Supreme Court victories, were followed by setbacks and frequently violent resistance to federal orders to integrate schools a...
APRIL 28, 1930: NANCY DREW
Dear Readers: Just for fun, a reprint of an earlier PINK about an American girl icon.
In late 1929, Edward Stratemeyer hired Mildred Augustine Wirt, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, to write the first Nancy Drew book. He gave her the pse...
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An independent historian, activist, and author of IN HER OWN RIGHT: THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, and FORMIDABLE: AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY, "an engaging, multiracial, profoundly illuminating tour de force." (NYTimes)
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