March 8TH International Women’s Day

Women’s March Is Honoring It With ‘A Day Without A Woman’ Campaign

Take the day off from work (paid and unpaid)

Avoid Shopping For One Day

Wear Red In Solidarity

The Month of March is ‘Women’s History Month’

A Celebration of Women’s Contributions to History, Culture and Society

Observed in U.S. Annually Throughout the Month of March Since 1987

IDA B. WELLS

JOURNALIST, NEWSPAPER EDITOR, SUFFRAGIST, SOCIOLOGIST, AND GEORGIST

WORKING ON BEHALF OF ALL WOMEN, CALLED FOR

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON TO PUT AN END TO

DESCRIMINATORY HIRING.

DR. JEWEL LIMAR PRESTAGE

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO EARN A PHD IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

FROM AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN 1954, AT THE AGE OF 23

HARVEY BERNARD GANTT

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ELECTED AS MAYOR OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA (1983),

AND WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR

UNITED STATES SENATOR (1990)