Aug 26, 2019 12:09PM ● By WLMagazine
Ninety-nine years ago today, the US ratified the 19th Ammednemant, prohibiting states and the federal government from denying citizens the...
Aug 08, 2019 09:00AM ● By WLMagazine
by Julia Bouwkamp for The Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History CouncilIllustrations by Libby VanderPloegIn March of 1918, Cornelia Steke...
Jul 10, 2019 09:00PM ● By WLMagazine
Hattie Beverly was “the first woman of colored blood to aspire to an appointment in the city schools as a teacher.”
May 10, 2019 09:00AM ● By WLMagazine
Early in the twentieth century, when most of Kent County had no library service, books generally available to rural schoolchildren were owned and loaned by their teachers.
Apr 10, 2019 09:00AM ● By WLMagazine
Meet the Women of West Michigan Who Made History Valeria Lipczynski (1846-1930) First woman delegate to a Polish National Alliance Nation...
Mar 08, 2019 10:00AM ● By WLMagazine
Grand Rapids had more women physicians in the 1890s than in the 1950s, when trails had to blazed for a second time. A beneficiary of early women pioneers in medicine, Frances...
Feb 08, 2019 10:00AM ● By WLMagazine
Five African American women who have played major roles in our city's history with their outstanding achievements in the face of adversity.
Feb 07, 2019 10:00AM ● By WLMagazine
A well-known community organizer who challenged Jim Crow laws and protested discrimination in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Emma S. Warren Ford was an...
Jan 08, 2019 10:00AM ● By WLMagazine
Meet the Women of West Michigan Who Made History Constance Rourke( 1885-1941) Author and Educator
Dec 13, 2018 02:00PM ● By WLMagazine
Grace Ames Van Hoesen(1870-1959 ) Suffragist, Kent County Commissioner
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