| 11-03 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Military Women's Veteran's Benefits
Anne Henrietta Martin helped women get the vote in Nevada
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Marge Piercy and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Event 11-03-1977, by an act of the U.S. Congress,
women who trained airmen in World War II and transported planes to England
(unarmed) were finally granted veteran's benefits after seeking them in
vain for 34 years.
The air force considered them civilians and blocked
any veteran benefits for the Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASPS) headed
by the undisputed greatest pilot of them all, Jacqueline Cochran.
In 1974, the National Organization for Women (NOW)
joined in the campaign to get full military honors and benefits for the
WASPS who flew 50 million miles during World War II. Thirty-nine lost their
lives on duty. The women, among other things, towed the targets that rookie
flyboys used live ammunition to shoot at. They weren't always accurate.
The women received no military benefits and even their
burial expenses were paid for by their families.
The women received no military retirement, medical,
or educational benefits that all men in WWII received, even those men who
never left the U.S. or were in safe posts and never in any danger.
On May 22, 1979, the surviving
WASPS - fewer than 800 - finally received official military status from
the Defense Department.
HIStory ignores - denies - women's military
deaths in WWII.
Another reason HERstory is so necessary.
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Anne Henrietta Martin
Event Nov. 03, 1914, Nevada's men vote in women's
suffrage six years before the national franchise was ratified, thanks in
great part to Anne Henrietta Martin (B. 09-30-1875), who headed the history
department at the University of Nevada. She took the leadership role in
the campaign which gave Nevada women the vote.
AHM was president of the militant National Woman's
party, but joined Carrie Chapman Catt and Janna Addams in their Woman's
Peace party. Her writings were published in the leading magazines of the
day.
AHM had been active with Emmeline Pankhurst in London,
England, and was arrested for demonstratiing there in 1910. Returning to
Nevada, she led the state suffrage amendment to victory.
She ran for the U.S. Senate from Nevada in 1918 and
in 1920, bypassing the standard political parties. She wrote extensively
on women's rights and suffrage. Her leadership role with the National Woman's
Party and her experiences with Pankhurst, some say, made her the dominant
influence on Alice Paul next to Lucy Burns.
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11-03 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-03-1841, Isabella MacDonald Alden, author
of nearly 75 books in the religious mode, mainly for children. At her
peak she sold more than 100,000 books a year. She was a staff member of
several magazines.
B. 11-03-1876, Mary Augusta Leavitt, physician,
early authority on anaesthesia.
B. 11-03-1904, Jennie Lee, Baroness of Asheridge,
Scott-born member of the British parliament 1929-31, 1945-70. Served as
a member of the Labour party cabinet. Promoted the arts.
B. 11-03-1949, Ann Wintour, editor, Vogue
magazine, 1988. Formerly editor in chief of House & Garden.
B. 11-03-1952, Roseanne Barr, comedienne.
Her parents sold blankets and crucifixes door to door. In 1991, she revealed
her father's sexual abuse of her.
Event Nov. 03, 1970, Gertrude W. Donahey
elected state treasurer, becomes the first woman to hold an elected state
office in Ohio.
Event Nov. 03, 1977, after 34 years, the U.S.
Congress finally granted members of the Women's Auxilliary Service
Pilots (WASPS) full veteran's benefits.
Event 11-03-1987, the growing acceptance of
women as political leaders was indicated by the re-election of Kathy
Whitmire as mayor of Houston, TX, and the elections of mayors Annette Strauss
of Corpus Christi, TX, Betty Turner of Charlotte, NC, and a black woman
Carrie Saxon-Perry of Hartford, CT.
Event 11-03-1987, Ann Dore McLaughlin, appointed
Labor Secretary by President Ronald Reagan, the second woman to hold
that post.
Event 11-03-1990, Gro Harlem Brundtland, becomes
Prime Minister of Norway for the third time and appoints nine women
in her 19-person cabinet.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
PIERCY, MARGE:
"All women hustle.
Women watch faces, voices, gestures, moods.
"She's the person
who has to survive through cunning."
--
Marge Piercy, Small Changes, 1973
STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY:
"Throughout this protracted
and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each
new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion and
uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame
an assembly of Hottentots."
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1879.
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