This #WomensHistoryMonth, I will be honoring some notable women and their contributions, which have helped shape America’s culture and history.
Join me in lifting up their stories.
Join me in lifting up their stories.
Born in Virginia, Virginia Minor was the co-founder and the first president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri. She was the plaintiff in the SCOTUS case, Minor v. Happersett, where the Court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote. 
Marguerite Higgins was a reporter & war correspondent for the N.Y. Herald Tribune during WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. She advanced the cause of equal opportunity for female war correspondents & was the first woman awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and Black American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).
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