by danarubin | Mar 29, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1946, Helen Gahagan Douglas took on Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare with a historic speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives. A Democratic member of Congress from California, Douglas took advantage of her international...
by danarubin | Mar 28, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1900, Yaa Asantewaa delivered a rousing speech that launched the War of the Golden Stool against British colonial rulers. Asantewaa was a queen in the Ashanti empire, modern-day Ghana, on the west coast of Africa. She was chosen by...
by danarubin | Mar 26, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ The first Black woman to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm delivered her first speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives on this day in 1969. It was a rhetorical thunderbolt delivered directly to President Nixon and her fellow...
by danarubin | Mar 25, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1965, civil rights leader Rosa Parks stood up at a rally in Montgomery, Alabama and spoke her heart out. She expressed the depths of her sorrow and anger over the country’s racial division and prejudice — but also her deepest...
by danarubin | Mar 23, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Helen Prejean’s passionate testimony against the death penalty on this day in 1998 came soon after one of the highest profile executions in the U.S. Just weeks before, Karla Faye Tucker had been put to death by the state of Texas for killing two...
