In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists. Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimké, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women's rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress, who advocated for women's rights to own property, to vote, and to divorce; Mother Jones, "the Joan of Arc of the coalfields," one of the most inspiring voices of the American labor movement; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who worked for the reform of two of America's most cherished institutions, the home and motherhood; Anna Louise Strong, an intrepid journalist who covered revolutions in Russia and China; and Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, who fed and sheltered the hungry and homeless in New York's Bowery for more than forty years.
due dil·i·gence / noun (Law) = reasonable steps taken by a person in order to satisfy a legal requirement, especially in buying or selling something. It also means "a comprehensive appraisal of a business undertaken by a prospective buyer, especially to establish its assets and liabilities and evaluate its commercial potential."
I like the wording I found in that illustration above: "An investigation, audit, or review performed to confirm facts or details of a matter under consideration.
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I'm with you, Bonnie. DNR. No need. I'm not in danger either, but I like to plan ahead.
ReplyDeleteNext year I want to celebrate Women's History Month by reading picture book biographies of women, one a day. I waited to late to do that this year.