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February 2nd, 2004
February 2
1878: (Birthday) Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (Kate’s mother) born. From Bryn Mawr Women as Suffragists - the NAWSA Alumnae:
Hepburn co-founded the Hartford Equal Franchise League in 1913, a group that eventually numbered between 20,000-30,000 members. She later became President of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, an affiliate of the
NAWSA, actively speaking as a representative of women who were mothers as well as suffragists. In September 1917, inspired by the arrests of the White House pickets, she resigned from the Connecticut organization and joined the
National Woman’s Party. By November 1917 she was on the NWP’s National Executive Committee, where she continued to make public appearances on behalf of the cause.
1901: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps established by Act of Congress.
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February 2nd, 2004
February 1
1853: The first issue of Una, a women’s rights newspaper, published by Paulina Wright Davis.
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February 3rd, 2004 at 2:15 pm
I’ve always thought it was cool that Kate Hepburn was a “Jr.”
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