“We especially need imagination in science.
It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but
is somewhat beauty and poetry.–Maria Mitchell,
the first American woman
professional astronomer
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WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers stories from October 1 through October 7.
The next installment of WOW2 will be on Saturday, October 8, 2022.
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I became a part of the struggle …
for better working conditions, for more pay,
for improvements in the deplorable conditions
of women workers, Negro workers, Mexican
workers. Sometimes the struggle was mean.
We fought in the midst of KKK terror.
We were jailed for daring to strike.
We fought desperately for
the right to organize!–Luisa Moreno,
Guatemalan-born American
labor organizer
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“It was the 31st of August in 1962
that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles
to the county courthouse in Indianola
to try to register to become first-class citizens.
We was met in Indianola by policemen,
Highway Patrolmen,and they only allowed
two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.”–Fannie Lou Hamer,
Mississippi voting rights crusader
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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.
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.

THIS WEEK IN THE WAR ON WOMEN
just posted, so be sure to go there next, and
catch up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines: