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of women who shaped history
This biographical picture book tells the story of determined Elizabeth Blackwell, who fought scorn and barriers on her way to becoming the first woman doctor in the United States, in a lively and engaging manner with bright, upbeat illustrations. The book includes an author’s note providing additional information about Blackwell.
Deseret Hospital Board. Front row, left to right: Jane S. Richards, Emmeline B. Wells. Middle row: Phoebe Woodruff, Mary Isabella Horne, Eliza R. Snow, Zina D. Young, Marinda N. Hyde. Back row: Dr. Ellis R. Shipp, Bathsheba W. Smith, Elizabeth Howard, Dr. Romania B. Pratt Penrose. Courtesy of LDS Church History Library.
“Women founded their first formal medical organization in Utah in as the Female Council of Health. It met at least twice a month at the home of Brigham Young&#;s first mother-in-law.
In October , Young announced he was sending Utah women to eastern universities to train as physicians. Some of the most remarkable women in the territory answered the call, and the next fall Romania Pratt, widow of LDS Apostle Parley P. Pratt, enrolled in the Woman&#;s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Ellis Shipp joined her in , working her way through school as a seamstre
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Women’s History Month: A Book Every Day
In honor of Women’s History Month, each day Social Justice Books features a children’s book we recommend to highlight grassroots women’s history in the United States.
Find many more titles for children check out the booklist: women’s history and women’s lives.
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
By Carole Boston Weatherford, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
We begin the month with Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement about the life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Beautifully written and illustrated, it is one of the too few books about a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement that is not about King, Parks, or Lewis.
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
By Phillip M. Hoose
Today is the anniversary of the day (March 2, ) when in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman. This was nine months before Rosa Parks took the same action. Colvin was motivated by what she had been learning in school about African-American history (note this event follows Black History Month) and the U.S. Constitution. Parks knew Colvin from the NAACP Youth Council and was inspired in part to take her action by Colvin. Read mo
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