The Women's Centennial Congress was organized by Carrie Chapman Catt and held at the Astor Hotel on November 25-27, 1940, to celebrate a century of female...
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freedom for all women in and outside of the home by increasing women's confidence and ability to choose. A project of the Women's Centennial Executive Committee...
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Carrie Chapman Catt (category International Alliance of Women people)
after her death. The last event she helped organize was the Women's Centennial Congress in New York in 1940, a celebration of the feminist movement in...
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World Anti-Slavery Convention (category Women's rights in the United States)
women." Eight years later they hosted the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. One hundred years later, the Women's Centennial Congress...
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Viola Florence Barnes (category American women historians)
she was honored by the Women's Centennial Congress as one of a hundred successful women in fields formerly closed to women. She focused on the history...
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Centennial Olympic Park is a 22-acre (89,000 m2) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center...
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1996 Summer Olympics (redirect from Centennial Olympics)
the Women's artistic gymnastics team all-around. The Games were marred by violence on July 27, 1996, when a pipe bomb was detonated at Centennial Olympic...
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petitioning Congress to declare March as Women's History Month. In 1978, the school district of Sonoma, California participated in Women's History Week...
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FIFA Order of Merit (redirect from FIFA Centennial Order of Merit)
congress. It is normally awarded to people who are considered to have made a significant contribution to association football. At FIFA's centennial congress...
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Mary Frances Winston Newson (category 19th-century American women mathematicians)
22 women to join the American Mathematical Society before 1900. In 1940, she was honored by the Women's Centennial Congress as one of a hundred women in...
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Frances A. Hellebrandt (category American women physiologists)
died February 2, 1992, in Upper Arlington, Ohio, at 90. The Women's Centennial Congress organized by Carrie Chapman Catt was held in New York City in...
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Congress are rare, and another one was not called until the 1900 Centennial of the Capital City. List of joint sessions of the United States Congress...
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(116th): Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act (Passed Congress version)". GovTrack.us. Retrieved 2021-06-15. "Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative...
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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (redirect from Enfranchisement of women in the United States)
movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878. However...
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in memory of the Centennial. The centennial was celebrated officially between the 19 May 1981 and the 19 May 1982, but the congresses and conferences which...
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from the Library of Congress Maurer, Elizabeth. "Pathways to Equality: The U.S. Women's Rights Movement Emerges". National Women's History Museum. 2014...
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(2000). Women's Rights Changing Attitudes 1900–2000. "Women's Suffrage: The Early Leaders". American Memory: American Women. The Library of Congress. Retrieved...
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Maud Slye (category American women scientists)
featured on the front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune. The Women's Centennial Congress organized by Carrie Chapman Catt was held in New York City in...
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their scores still counted. The fourth American Chess Congress (called the American Centennial Championship) was held in Philadelphia on August 17–31...
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The Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution...
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The American Women quarters program is a series of quarters featuring notable women in U.S. history, commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment...
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The Congress of the Confederation, or the Confederation Congress, formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, was the governing body...
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Look up sesquicentennial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 was a world's fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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The Senate of the Philippines is the upper house of Congress. The Senate is composed of 24 senators, each elected to a six-year term, renewable once, under...
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Ida Barney (category American women astronomers)
life in 1955. She was succeeded by Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit. The Women's Centennial Congress was organized by Carrie Chapman Catt, November 25–27, 1940, to...
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Liberty Bell (redirect from Centennial Bell)
include the so-called Justice Bell or Women's Liberty Bell, commissioned in 1915 by suffragists to advocate for women's suffrage. This bell had the same legend...
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own independent celebrations. 2006 was a pivotal year as it marked the centennial celebration of Filipino migration to the United States. While some used...
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Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, passed congress in 2020 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act...
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Centennial Celebration of Women in Politics and Legislation, sponsored by Ugnayan ng Kababaihan sa Pulitika, National Centennial Commission – Women Sector...
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Susan B. Anthony (category American women's rights activists)
1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family...
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