Celebrate Women’s History Month 2022 and honor American women and their personal sacrifices for America and the World
AGN.News Team
March 1, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AGN.News) – Women’s History Month in the U.S. is an annual month that highlights the achievements, contributions and the accomplishments of women in the events in history.
Here and there, are women who are gifted and supremely endowed. Women’s History Month recognizes them in 2022 and gives us a chance to honor them. It begins on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 and ends Thursday, March 31, 2022 in the United States.
Women’s History Month began in 1978 as “Women’s History Day” in Sonoma County, California. In the United States, it evolved into a week in 1980 and then as a month in 1987.
Eventually, Women’s History Month began to be celebrated nationally and in many communities internationally, including in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other countries. The contributions of women and the value of celebrating those contributions has had a positive and monumental impact on the global society.
This impact can be seen in the development, growth and leadership in both the success of business, institutions, and the history of law and government in the country.
This role of women in business, family, community and government as builders of the homeland can be seen in every area of life today.
Who are these women? Women like Gerda Lerner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Sandra Day O’Conner, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elena Kagan, Susan B. Anthony, Coretta Scott King, Sonia Sotomayor, Viola Liuzzo, Kamala Harris, Dr Jill Biden, Laura Bush, Cindy McCain, Victoria Woodhull, Michelle Obama, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, and Alice Paul.
Additionally, Amy Coney Barrett, Juliette Gordon Low, Aretha Franklin, Barbara Walters, Amelia Earheart, Clara Barton, Chen-Shiung Wu, Althea Gibson, Diane Crump, Flo Hyman, Dolores Hueta, and Beatrice Dixon are all among the many other women, too many to mention here, who are endowed with the skills and motivation to find success in their fields, worthy to be honored.
Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, founded the Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts was organized after Low met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.
Upon returning to Savannah, Georgia, she telephoned a distant cousin, saying, “I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!”.
Viola Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist who gave her life in the struggle for the right to vote.
In March 1965, Liuzzo heeded the call of Martin Luther King Jr. and traveled from Detroit, Michigan, to Selma, Alabama, in the wake of the Bloody Sunday attempt at marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Liuzzo participated in the successful Selma to Montgomery marches which were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression.
At the age of 39, on March 25, 1965, while driving back from a trip shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport, she was fatally hit by shots fired from a pursuing car containing Ku Klux Klan members Collie Wilkins, William Eaton, Eugene Thomas, and Gary Thomas Rowe (an undercover FBI informant).
The trio, Wilkins, Eaton, and Thomas were acquitted of murder in state court. However, Wilkins, Eaton, and Thomas were charged in federal court with conspiracy to intimidate African Americans under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act and were found guilty by an all-white, all-male jury, and sentenced to ten years in Federal prison, a landmark in Southern legal history.
MacKenzie Scott Tuttle is an American novelist and philanthropist. She was named as the world’s most powerful women by Forbes in 2021, and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Women’s History Month gives everyone the opportunity to recognize these pioneer-spirited women in medicine, business, government and the founders of companies that employs both women and men to inspire the next generation of leaders.
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