This month, we're celebrating the birthdays of the following women:
Doris Fisher, businesswoman who co-founded the Gap (May 2)
Septima Poinsette Clark, educator, civil rights activist, and voting rights activist (May 3)
Nellie Bly (the pen name of Elizabeth Cochrane Seama), journalist and investigator (May 5)
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, ordained minister who became the first woman to serve as chaplain to the Connecticut state legislature (May 6)
Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist (May 8)
Jacqueline Cochran, pilot who set multiple records, including as the first woman to break the sound barrier (May 11)
Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman who founded Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. (May 12)
Sophie Kurys, baseball player and the greatest base stealer in All-American Girls Professional Baseball League history (May 14)
Madeleine Albright, diplomat who became the first female United States Secretary of State when she took office in 1997 (May 15)
Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer who became the first female NASA executive, served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, created NASA's space astronomy program, and is known as "the Mother of Hubble" (May 16)
Regina M. Anderson, playwright and member of the Harlem Renaissance (May 21)
Helen Taussig, cardiologist and founder of pediatric cardiology who was the first woman to be elected head of the American Heart Association (May 24)
Rachel Carson, marine biologist and conservationist who wrote Silent Spring (May 27)
Amelia Bloomer, suffragist who was the first woman to own, edit, and publish a women's newspaper (May 27)
Click here to read the May newsletter in full.
