On this day in women’s history…
| February 22nd, 2004February 22
1822: (Birthday) Isabella Beecher Hooker, a lifelong suffrage leader, born in Litchfield, Connecticut.
1860: Women shoemakers join strike for higher wges in Lynn, Massachusetts.
1912: Thirty-five starving women and children were beaten and arrested at the train station of Lawrence, Massachusetts, when they tried to go to temporary homes in Philadelphia. Workers were striking the lowering of wages and poor working conditions in the textile plants and were part of the now famous Bread and Roses strike.
1994: (A First) the Church of England announced officially that it would ordain women as priests. The first ordination of the 1,200 women in line for priesthood occurred March 12, 1994, with the first woman celebrating communion March 13, 1994, British Mother’s day. The U.S. Episcopal Church had ordained 1,031 women by the time of the Church of England announcement. Thirty-five Anglican priests announced they would leave the church, some saying they would join the Roman Catholic Church and predicting as many as one-third of the men would leave over the ordination of women. It did not occur.
