On this day in women’s history…
| February 26th, 2004February 26
1858: (Birthday) Lavinia Lloyd Dock, nurse, settlement house worker, union activist, and suffragist, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A timeline of her social activist work shows how committed and passionate she was:
Involved with Social Reform Club. Also worked with NY Women’s Trade Union League.
1909 Walked picket lines for Shirtwaist strike
1913 Spoke at ANA convention urging nurses to support union movement
1910 Hygiene & Morality published; called for abolition of double standard of morality; abolish, not regulate prostitution, suffrage for women, self control for men.
1912 Walked with 4 other women from NYC to Albany on a Suffrage hike
1913 Organized marchers from the Lower East side for the Suffrage parade, carried banners in 10 languages
1917 Led suffrage pickets from the National Women’s Party Headquarters to the White House. Was jailed June 25 and August 17, 1917, and again August 6, 1918 for participating in militant demonstrations.
With Leonora O’Reilly founded a local of the United Garment Workers of America at a Henry Street workshop. Encouraged workers to unite in trade unions.
Crusader against VD; early member of American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis
1921 Praised birth control leader Margaret Sanger: “for teaching to poor working women what all well-to-do women may learn from reliable authority”
Active in National Woman’s Party
Condemned World War I
