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Activism

1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association, which coordinated the national suffrage movement. In 1890, the group teamed with the American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Inventor

1956 Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, the inventor of numerous products we use today, is granted her first patent, for a "sanitary belt" (for menstruation). She holds the most patents of any African American woman.

Military

1942 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed H.R. 6293, establishing the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). In exchange for their non-combatant “essential services” — administrative, clerical and cooking, among others — up to 150,000 women would receive pay, food, living quarters and medical care, but not life insurance, medical coverage, death benefits, or the prisoner of war protection covered under international agreements. The bill was originally introduced by Massachusetts Congresswoman Edith Rogers.