Welcome to WOW2 — Late April!
WOW2 is a twice-monthly sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers women and events from April 15 through April 30.
The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark moments in women’s history. It also serves as a reference archive of women’s history. There are so many more phenomenal women than I ever dreamed of finding, and all too often their stories are almost unknown, even to feminists and scholars.
This is an on-going, evolving project. So many women have been added to the lists over the past three years that even changing the posts from monthly to twice a month, the pages keep getting longer and more unwieldy – an astonishing and wonderful problem to have!
April is Black Women’s History Month, and we have a number of phenomenal African American women with birthdays and major milestones this month. It’s also National Poetry Month, and we have some exceptional poets too.
For the entire previous LATE APRIL list as of 2018, click HERE:
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Otherwise, what you’re seeing on this Late April 2019 page are only the NEW people and events, or additional information, found since last year.
These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.
Note: While I much prefer to present women who are positive role models, and the vast majority of the women posted here are inspirational, there are always a few who should be taken as cautionary tales.And there is one really horrible woman in this Late April batch — Elizabeth Dilling. If you’ve wondered where today’s Far Right Extremist women have come from, Dilling is one of their truly ugly step-mothers, and her story should not be forgotten.
This Week in the War on Women
has posted, so be sure to go there next to catch
up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines: