A first for the Supremes
This photographs shows the September 25, 1981, swearing-in of Sandra Day O’Connor—the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice Warren...
A proud day
Mrs. Stella Lewandowsky is shown taking the oath of allegiance to become a U.S. citizen on January 21, 1948.
A proud Marine
This is a photograph of Lance Corporal Felicia A. Lynch, United States Marine Corps. Women have served in the Marines since first being admitted as clerks in 1918....
Announcing the nomination
This draft press release from President Ronald Reagan’s administration announces the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first woman Justice of the...
Appealing to the Board
President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up the National War Labor Board in January 1942. The Board mediated wartime labor disputes and consisted of representatives from...
Arrest report of Rosa Parks
In 1955, a 42-year-old seamstress touched off a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system when she was arrested for failing to yield her seat to a white...
Before “Rosie the Riveter”
Women riveters pose for the camera at the Navy Yard in Puget Sound, Washington. Taken on May 29, 1919, a generation before the more famous World War II image of...