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<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement. </p><p>In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined. </p><p>&quot;I certainly don&#x27;t want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.</p><p>OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action. </p><p>Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/britishhistory/" rel="tag">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/london/" rel="tag">#London</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.” </p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/worldwar2/" rel="tag">#WorldWar2</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>