In this issue:
Women's History News & Events for October
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2018 Women's History Month Theme:
Nevertheless She Persisted

The 2018 theme recognizes the intersecting forms of discrimination women have faced, and continue to face, throughout American history and celebrates the diverse women who have fought, and continue to fight, discrimination at all level and in all forms.

Now's the time to begin planning your 2018 Women's History Month celebrations! One very special way to make women's history come alive is with a performer or presenter.

Costumed performers portray both famous and infamous women from our history with relish and panache, while authors and presenters bring the unbridled enthusiasm that comes from years of research and writing about a specific woman or women's history topic.

You can find performers from across the US, and in nearly every state, on the NWHP website.
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Eleanor Roosevelt's birthday is October 11th

As First Lady, journalist, activist, diplomat, Democratic Party leader, and public speaker, ER helped shape not only the United States but also the United Nations and the path we still follow toward the greater protection of human rights. This is the most extensive website for information and resources related to Eleanor Roosevelt.

For more info about this remarkable woman visit the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University. 
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NWHP Online Auction begins October 11th

Auction begins October 11th -- Eleanor Roosevelt's birthday!
Auction items will include an entire women's history library as well as recently published books with author autographs, a rich mix of unusual and practical gifts, and a wonderful selection of women's history memorabilia.

We are still looking for donated items to include!
Please send an image and description to: nwhp@nwhp.org.
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Invitation to contribute suffrage sites to
the National Votes for Women Trail 

In honor of the August 26, 2020, c entennial celebration of woman's suffrage in the United States, the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites is leading the effort to develop a nation-wide Votes for Women Trail. The Trail will highlight the role of each state in the 72-year battle to achieve women's suffrage. Will you join this effort?
 
This project is truly a grassroots effort. Each state will have a coordinator who will lead volunteers from across their state to find and to research those sites that have a history with the women's suffrage movement. They enter that information into a comprehensive database that will be used to populate an interactive nationwide map, which will - for the first time - represent the complete story of the struggle for women's suffrage. The ultimate objective of this project is to show how social change occurs, to honor the suffrage movement's countless participants, and to inspire future generations to treasure their right to vote. 

For more info about this fantastic project to include more women's history on our maps, visit the  National Collaborative for Women's History Sites.

Interested is assisting your State Coordinator? Please contact Marsha Weinstein today at: mweinst413@gmail.com; or call her at: 502-819-2537 . The suffragists of our states certainly did their share; now let's do ours!

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Entertaining and lavishly illustrated, the Gazette documents the victories, defeats, personalities and strategies used by state suffragists in their relentless effort to secure the basic right of citizenship for women. 

The publication also features  historic images, useful links and up-to-date news of the latest resources and projects highlighting women and democracy;  an update on the Equal Rights Amendment and how it could help change American society; and   a full-color poster highlighting the important success of generations who worked to win the right to vote for women.
 
Although we are completely sold out of print copies, the downloadable PDF version of our  How Women Won the Vote Gazette is still available online, along with another important suffrage-related resource guide, including cookbooks, patterns, songs and surprises, plus over 500 titles and links on suffragists and state suffrage history. 
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Women's History Calendar for October

Special dates in Women's History:
October 10, 1983: Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics about mobile genetic elements

October 11, 1984: Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to perform a spacewalk during Challenger flight 
 
October 15, 1948: Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy

October 16, 1916: Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.'s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York  

Important October Birthdays:
October 6, 1917: Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights leader and voting rights crusader, helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964) 

October 7, 1920: Kathryn Clarenback, founding member of the National Organization for Women, executive director of the National Committee on the Observance of International Women's Year (1977)

October 11, 1884: Eleanor Roosevelt, civil rights advocate, feminist, author, world diplomat, former First Lady (1933-45)

October 18, 1951: Terry McMillan, author of 13 novels including her first, Mama (1987), and most popular, Waiting to Exhale (1992) 

October 22, 1834: Abigail Scott Duniway, early western author and Pacific Northwest suffrage leader, (1871-1915), she was successful in winning woman suffrage in Oregon (1912)

October 26, 1947: Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State (2009-13), former Senator from New York (2001-09), former First Lady (1993-2001), and the historic first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party (2016)

October 31, 1860: Juliette Low, founder and first president of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. 

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A Little Women's History Halloween Humor

It's the time of year again where we go looking for clever Halloween costumes, and our friends at The Lily have helpfully come up with a list of feminist costume ideas, covering many of the important moments in current events as they relate to women that are sure to inspire meaningful dialogue. 

But our favorite is the "Woman on the $20 Bill." This clever and easy-to-assemble costume pays homage to the efforts to put a woman on the $20 bill.