Women's Birthdays & Milestones

August 7



Billie Burke b. 1886-comedian, actor, Glinda the Good Witch

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn b. 1890-"Rebel Girl," labor leader, communist, founded ACLU

1948: Alice Coachman is 1st Black woman to win Olympic gold medal




Quote for the Day

"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."

~ George Eliot

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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR AUGUST

Women's Equality Day, commemorates US women's suffrage, 1920: August 26


Reprinted from The WomanSource Catalog & Review's, "women's perpetual calendar"