#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1985, Wilma Mankiller was sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She went to serve two more terms as Chief.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Carol Quillen, #NationalTrust’s CEO said she did not have a “hard objection” to a #WhiteHouse #ballroom — so long as its size, materials & design were consistent with the White House & did not overshadow the main building. It is the National Trust’s job, she said, to preserve #Americanhistory, particularly at the White House, given the building’s iconic status & central role. She noted that the org has also brought legal challenges to past admins’ construction projects.

#Trump #law #EastWing

#OnThisDay, 13 Dec 1983, Martha Layne Collins became Governor of Kentucky, USA. She was the first woman to hold the role, and no further women have governed the state.

Her husband was later convicted for peddling influence and accepting kickbacks during her time in office.
#AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1985, Wilma Mankiller was sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She went to serve two more terms as Chief.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 13 Dec 1983, Martha Layne Collins became Governor of Kentucky, USA. She was the first woman to hold the role, and no further women have governed the state.

Her husband was later convicted for peddling influence and accepting kickbacks during her time in office.
#AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Carol Quillen, #NationalTrust’s CEO said she did not have a “hard objection” to a #WhiteHouse #ballroom — so long as its size, materials & design were consistent with the White House & did not overshadow the main building. It is the National Trust’s job, she said, to preserve #Americanhistory, particularly at the White House, given the building’s iconic status & central role. She noted that the org has also brought legal challenges to past admins’ construction projects.

#Trump #law #EastWing

#OnThisDay, 4 Dec 1978, Dianne Feinstein was formally sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco.

She had been the acting Mayor after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk the week before.

She goes on to win two more terms, and to be elected to the US Senate where she served until her death in 2023.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 4 Dec 1978, Dianne Feinstein was formally sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco.

She had been the acting Mayor after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk the week before.

She goes on to win two more terms, and to be elected to the US Senate where she served until her death in 2023.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/113574213198949615

Another powerful speech from #KishaJames!

#Wamsutta #WamsuttasSpeech #UAINE
#UnitedAmericanIndiansOfNewEngland #FrankJames #FrankWamsuttaJames
#DayOfMourning #NationalDayOfMourning
#SettlerColonialism #IndigenousHistory
#AmericanHistory #Mayflower #ThanksgivingMyth

“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#ViolaFletcher, who as a child in 1921 saw her affluent Black neighborhood torched by white citizens in what became known as the #TulsaRaceMassacre — one of the most violent acts of racial violence in #AmericanHistory — & who, a century later, testified in #Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning #reparations, has died. She was 111 & the oldest survivor of the attack.

#UShistory #BlackHistory #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/viola-fletcher-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/113574213198949615

Another powerful speech from #KishaJames!

#Wamsutta #WamsuttasSpeech #UAINE
#UnitedAmericanIndiansOfNewEngland #FrankJames #FrankWamsuttaJames
#DayOfMourning #NationalDayOfMourning
#SettlerColonialism #IndigenousHistory
#AmericanHistory #Mayflower #ThanksgivingMyth