Every Girl Pulling for Victory. Lithograph by Edward Penfield, 1918.
Before Rosie the Riveter, there were the Victory Girls. By the end of the First World War, women made up 20% of manufacturing workers. The U.S. Government was so impressed it decided women “deserved the protection of labor laws and in 1920 created the Women's Bureau, which has remained an essential lobbying resource for female workers in the fight for improved conditions and equality with men in the workplace" - The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History.
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Susie King Taylor (1848-1912). She escaped slavery and become the first African-American nurse to serve in the U.S. Army. Her autobiography, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, was published in 1902.
