WOMAN of ACTION      Sakajawea   ~Whether spelled Sakajawea, meaning "Boat Launcher", or Sacagawea, meaning "Bird Woman", Sakajawea played an important role in history. She rose the Native American woman to higher levels of admiration and respect, among other recognitions. She was most likely born in 1790 in Eastern Idaho, a Native American of the Shoshoni tribe. When she was just ten years old, she was kidnapped by the Hidatsa, another tribe, and was brought to the … [Read more...]

  A Celebration of Women has been inspired today, in honor of Children's Week in Australia, (another land built on slavery) to pay Tribute to this Woman, and Celebrate her Life! At the age of 7 was uprooted from her home, and as a child, was taken to a strange land for the purpose of slavery. This Tribute shares that Grace and Divine Intervention can take place anywhere, anytime and at any hand. This little girl once landed in the hands of the Wheatley family, was never used as a slave; rather … [Read more...]

  A Celebration of Women™  is honored to pay Tribute to another icon of America, a Woman!  Her perseverence and intelligence created many great inventions; and her forsight of the necessity of water, inspired many of today's solutions of irrigation and general water supply. A True testiment to the Power of a Women!     WOMAN of ACTION™    Harriet Russell Strong   THE PINK AND WHITE, HELPLESS prettiness; the delicate, fainting, clinging doll is fast becoming a thing of … [Read more...]

  WOMAN of ACTION     Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor "We're not asking for superiority for we have always had that; all we ask is equality." -Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor     It would seem that not much is known about Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor. She was born in 1879 in Danville, Virginia, and later moved to Richmond, Virginia, where she was mostly raised. Her first marriage lasted only 10 years, but it was her second marriage that was most important.  In 1906, when she visited England, … [Read more...]

    WOMAN of ACTION     Emma Tenayuca     Emma Tenayuca was born on December 21, 1916, in San Antonio, Texas, one of eleven children. She lived with her grandparents during her childhood to ease her parent's strife. When she was 16 years old, she joined the labor movement and found out all about the Finck Cigar Company strikes. She graduated from Brackenridge High School in 1934 and became an elevator operator. However, she was still in the labor movement, and was arrested once when she … [Read more...]