#Today, 150 years ago, Lola Ridge was born in Dublin. She was to become a modernist #poet, a leading figure in the #modernist movement in #NewYork , a very prominent #anarchist#activist and campaigner für women's rights, the rights of immigrants and the poor. Lola Ridge has had a small renaissance since her biography came out 2016, but she could be read more widely. #writingWomen#womenwriter #poetry#20s#SaccoAndVanzetti
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1954, Mary Eliza Terrell (nee Church) died in Maryland, #USA .
Born in 1863 in Tennessee, her parents were both freed but recently enslaved people.
She was one of the first Black American women to earn a bachelor's degree, later becoming a teacher.
In 1892, she helped found the Colored Women's League in DC, and joined the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights (she was also a founding member of the NAACP). #OTD#histodons#civilrights#activist@histodons