Women's Birthdays & Milestones
January 5
Olympia Brown b. 1835-suffragist, pacifist, Universalist minister
1994: National Political Congress of Black Women demonstrate against "gangsta rap"
Quote for the Day
"The story of a love is not important --what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
~ Helen Hayes
ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR January
- Women's Global Media Monitoring Project, Media Watch: 408-423-6355, January 18
- Black Women in the Academy: 617-253-8889
- Board on Women and Minorities of American Meteorological Society: 617-227-2426, ext. 206
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women annual meeting, UN: 212-963-3160
- National Labor Leaders' Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS: 202-466-4615
- Schweppes International Women's Tennis Open, WTA: 813-895-5000
- Women in Higher Education International Conference: 915-747-5142; fax 915-747-5538
- Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities: An International Celebration, Eatonville, FL, featuring music, performers, lectures, workshops: 407-647-3307
Reprinted from The WomanSource Catalog & Review's, "women's perpetual calendar"