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History of Women's Achievement In America

The unique and independent American woman: adventurer... pioneer... poet... mother... educator... artist... freedom fighter. A History of Women's Achievement in America examines the 400-year history of American women's inspiring accomplishments and victories. Without the American woman's pioneering fortitude, the early colonies at Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation, would not have survived. From then on, millions of American pioneer women would push the frontier ever forward. Destined to play an essential role in the shaping of the United States; American women forged an identity unlike any other in the world. That identity found a voice as they created great literature and science. American women led the fight to end slavery, limit corporate power, provide education for all . . . and to protect the poor, the disenfranchised, the immigrants and the insane. At the same time, these unique American women would have to fight tirelessly for their own equality in politics, education and the workplace... even the right to vote.

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  • A New Age of Equality
    Friday, April 26
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1985- Wilma Mankiller Becomes Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. 1986- Oprah Winfrey Initiates a New Era for Women in Television. 1989- Asian American Amy Tan Publishes The Joy Luck Club. 1997- Madeleine Albright Begins a New Era for Women in American Leadership. 1998- Pleasant Rowland Sells the American Girl Company. 2001- Linda Alvarado Wins the Horatio Alger Award.
  • American Women Find Their Voice
    Friday, April 19
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1959- Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun is Produced. 1963- Betty Friedan Launches the New Women's Movement. 1967- Lynn Margulis Explains the Origin of Complex Biological Life. 1969- Joan Ganz Cooney Launches Sesame Street. 1973- Roe v. Wade Strikes Down Anti-Abortion Laws. 1978- Hispanic Golfer Nancy Lopez Wins Her First LPGA Championship. 1981- Women in the Legal System and Sandra Day O'Connor.
  • America Becomes A Super Power
    Friday, April 12
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1936- Eleanor Roosevelt Transforms the Role of First Lady. 1942- "Rosie the Riveter" Joins the War Effort. 1950- Babe Didrikson Named Woman Athlete of the Half Century. 1950- Gwendolyn Brooks Wins the Pulitzer Prize. 1950- Margaret Chase Smith Stands Up to Joseph McCarthy with Declaration of Conscience Speech. 1955- Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Montgomery Bus to a White Passenger. 1956- Tennis - Pro Althea Gibson Becomes the First African American Woman to Win Grand Slam Tourney.
  • Women Begin to Transform Themselves
    Friday, April 5
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1916- Jeannette Rankin Becomes First Woman Elected to Congress. 1920 - Edith Wharton Wins a Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence. 1920- Women Gain the Right to Vote. 1928- Margaret Mead Publishes Coming of Age in Samoa. 1929- Georgia O'Keeffe Visits New Mexico for the First Time. 1932- Amelia Earhart Flies the Atlantic Ocean Solo. 1935- Mary McLeod Bethune Founds the National Council of Negro Women.