Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Murphy, with his minutiae, Stryker, with his clients' stubborn avowal of innocence, faced the jury of two women, ten white-collar workers and businessmen. What Chambers had called a "tragedy of history" was near judgment and the bitter...
These cap-and-gowners, Shirley M. Gallup, Doris B. Bennett, Martha K. Caires, Edith L. Stone, and eight other classmates last week received the first M.D. degrees ever awarded to women by Harvard Medical School. At graduation, they were the symbolical victors of a century-long battle. It was in 1847 that the first woman began trying to get into the medical school; but Harvard would have none of her, nor of any women thereafter (one reason: too many medical women graduates never bothered to practice). Finally, in 1945, when the wartime shortage of doctors had become acute, Harvard relented...
...graduate of Oberlin College and a resident of the national capital, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell should have been eligible to join the Washington branch of the American Association of University Women. But Mary Terrell was a Negro. In 1946, Washington turned her down...
Though 83, fiery Mrs. Terrell decided to fight. "I thought I'd be an arrant coward," she said, "unless I opened the way for other colored women." She applied for membership in the national A.A.U.W. and got in; Washington was ordered to take her in or get out of the association. Instead, Washington took the case to court and won the three-year fight; under the association's national bylaws, the court said, Washington had a right to exclude anyone it chose. Last week, at its national convention in Seattle, the A.A.U.W. voted to change the bylaws...
...that would not get Mary Terrell into the Washington chapter. As soon as the vote was counted, Washington made its decision: it seceded from the association. It was a pity, sighed the quietly disgusted New York Times, "because women with the advantage of a college degree really ought to know better, and because women representing the capital of this democracy ought at the least to act as though they believed in democracy...