1827: Emily Howland born (educator, reformer)
1829: Ellen Cheney Johnson (prison superintendent, reformer: temperance, prison reform; Sanitary Commission)
1896: Rose Pesotta, union organizer and first woman vice president of the International Ladies Garment Worker Union (ILGWU), 1934
1910: Pauli Murray, civil rights lawyer, Episcopal priest, first black person to earn a doctorate at Yale Law School, 1965
Quote for Today
“Individualism is the whole world rightly in ourselves, and welcome there. It is reality working with a sweet lack of interference, through us….It is the self thriving on what it has to do with, making beautiful what it has to do with.” – Pauli Murray
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