On January 21, 1913, the Oakland YWCA announces that the city’s own Julia Morgan — the most accomplished woman architect in the country — is…
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Phyllis Diller, 37, mother of five, former San Leandro News-Observer shopping columnist, gets her first stand-up comedy gig at San Francisco’s Purple Onion on March…
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After California’s male voters decisively defeat a women’s voting rights ballot measure in 1896, suffragists display plenty of public bravado. But it’s all for show. …
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That’s how an article in the July 30, 1897 San Francisco Call describes Mrs. Eliza Thorrold, who is set to take the examination to be…
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Alexander and Abby Clifton Fisher come to San Francisco in 1877. In 1879, Abby Fisher is presented the highest award at the State Fair in…
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Margaret “Maggie” Yee grows up dreaming of being a pilot like Amelia Earhart. She becomes one of only two Chinese American WASPs, serving in WWII.
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Emily Pitts Stevens occupies a hallowed position in the pantheon of early suffrage advocates in California. As a 25-year-old teacher of night classes for working women…
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“For the first time in the history of this nation a political party has chosen a Negro woman for the second highest office in the…
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On October 24, 1884, Marietta Stow declares her candidacy for vice president of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket, during a speech…
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On February 17, 1925 Florence Prag Kahn wins a special election to fill the San Francisco congressional seat previously held by her late husband, Julius.…
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