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The first woman in America to edit a newspaper, the South Carolina Gazette.
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The inventor of cotton sewing thread, becomes the first American to receive a patent. -
North Carolina’s first chartered college for women, is opened and operated by the Methodist Church. -
The first African American woman in the United States to receive a B.A. degree is born in Raleigh. -
The first African American woman admitted to the U.S. bar. -
Forty thousand people march in a New York City suffrage parade, the largest parade ever held in that city.
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The first woman in the country to serve as state commissioner of public welfare and the first woman in the state to head a major department.
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The first woman in a presidential cabinet, serves as secretary of labor during the entire Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency. -
Approves birth control pills.
