The Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (CWHF) recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Connecticut for their significant achievements or statewide contributions.
The CWHF had its beginnings in 1993 when a group of volunteers partnered with Hartford College for Women to establish an organization to honor distinguished contributions by female role models associated with Connecticut. The first list of inductees contained forty-one women notable to Connecticut's history and culture, many of whom broke down barriers by becoming the first women to establish themselves in fields that had been previously denied to their gender.[1]Alice Paul, who had a role in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and later wrote the first version of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, was on the 1994 list of women. Also on that first list were actress Katharine Hepburn and her mother Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, who was a pioneer in women's rights and planned parenthood issues. Three of the Beecher clan are on that first list, Hartford Female Seminary founder Catharine Beecher, suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker, and abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Governor Ella T. Grasso was honored in 1994, as was Estelle Griswold, whose landmark Griswold v. Connecticut before the United States Supreme Court resulted in Connecticut's anti-birth control statute being declared unconstitutional.
The CWHF provides educational resources through two traveling exhibits, the Inductee Portrait Exhibit,[2] and its We Fight For Roses, Too,[3] a set of twenty-two standing panels displaying the stories of the inductees. The CWHF also provides speakers upon request.[4]
Activist, past director of the Connecticut General Assembly's Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and as executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut.
First woman elected state treasurer in Connecticut history, first African American woman elected state treasurer in the nation, and first African American woman elected to statewide office in Connecticut
Jurist, Chair of the Open Society Institute's Criminal Justice Initiative, Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice, first woman to sit on the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, subsequently serving as its Chief Judge
Widow of Samuel Colt, donated her entire art and firearms collection to Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, and provided funding to erect a Colt Memorial wing of the museum
Philanthropist, president and director of G. Fox & Co., from 1938 to 1959 she made her store available to Connecticut College for Women as a training program for retail education.
After passing the Connecticut Superior Court exam, won an 1882 ruling from Chief Justice John Park of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors that women were entitle to equal protection under Connecticut statutes and entitled to practice law in the state.
Sisters Hannah, Hancy, Cynrinthia, Laurilla, Julia and Abby. Family of early suffragists. Their home Kimberly Mansion is listed on the NRHP for Glastonbury.
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↑ Smith, Richard (Summer 2008). "Reviewed Work: Barbara McClintock: Genius of Genetics by Naomi Pasachoff". The Science Teacher. 75 (5): 78–79. JSTOR24142524.
↑ Ahles, Dick (December 26, 2004). "The Extraordinary Who Lived Among Us". New York Times.
↑ "Reviewed Work: Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942–1992 by Jane Hamilton-Merritt". Asian Affairs. 27 (4): 267–268. Winter 2001. JSTOR30172817.
↑ F.P.P (November 1882). "Supreme Court of Connecticut. In re Mary Hall". The American Law Register. 30 (11): 728–737. doi:10.2307/3304630. JSTOR3304630.
↑ "Katharine Houghton Hepburn". The Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Marr. Bryn Marr College. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
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↑ Henderson, Desirée (2009). "Reviewed Works: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook by Elizabeth Ammons; The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe by Sarah Robbins". Legacy. 26 (1): 166–169. doi:10.1353/leg.0.0070. JSTOR25679691. S2CID161122809.
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