1849 Elizabeth Smith Miller appears... in "turkish trousers," soon to be known as "bloomers."

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1850 Quaker physicians establish the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, PA to give women a chance to learn medicine. The first women graduated under police guard.

1855 In Missouri v. Celia, a Black slave is declared property without right to defense against a master's act of rape.

1933 Frances Perkins, the first woman in a Presidential cabinet, serves as Secretary of Labor during the entire Roosevelt presidency.

1960 Women now earn only 60 cents for every dollar earned by men, a decline since 1955. Women of color earn only 42 cents.

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