On this day in women’s history…

Posted by bean | March 12th, 2004

March 12

1912: Juliette Gordon Low organizes the first troop, in Savannah, Georgia, of will be the Girl Scouts of America.

1925: Mary Belle Harris, prison reformer, is appointed superintendent of a Bureau of Prisons facility for women in Alderson, West Virginia.

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