Join us and @smithsonianapa to celebrate the life and legacy of the Honorable Patsy Mink and commemorate the release of the 2024 Patsy Mink quarter. This is the twelfth coin to be released in the United States Mint's American Women Quarters™ Program.

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Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the woman behind the weekend, the minimum wage, and safer working conditions was born #OnThisDay in 1880. She was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. Learn more: s.si.edu/3JbkfqH

🌒 It's #SolarEclipse day! We are celebrating by learning about some of the women who helped shape what we know about space. s.si.edu/3xpmDHr

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Born #OnThisDay in 1928, Dr. Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer, performer, and social activist.

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📷: © Brian Lanker Archive National Portrait Gallery USA #NationalPoetryMonth

Join us and @smithsonianapa as we take our Patsy Mink quarters to the U.S. Capitol.

🪙 Learn more about Mink and our American Women Quarters™ Program in partnership with United States Mint: s.si.edu/3vCrc0F

This #NationalPoetryMonth we recognize Phillis Wheatley, considered the first African American author to publish a book of poetry.

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A skilled communicator, Shirley Temple Black transcended her celebrity status as a child movie star to become an effective diplomat, serving as the first woman ambassador to Ghana (1974-76) and Czechoslovakia (1989-92). Smithsonian American Women's History Museum #WHM2024

Isabel Morgan's research provided essential building blocks needed to formulate the polio vaccine.

Learn more about her from curator Katherine Ott at National Museum of American History and in our digital exhibition, 'Becoming Visible': s.si.edu/4c3VSZ9

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✨ We asked which women in history, your community, or your family inspire you. Did you share your story with us? Check out our Community Story Explorer: s.si.edu/4a6kVcA

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Wonder Woman 'is the portrayal of a woman as the powerful creature that she is, one who cannot be diminished or overlooked. She is not a victim. She is extraordinary, as women are.' Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

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To become the first woman Associate Justice on SCOTUS, Sandra Day O’Connor broke barriers throughout her career. She was also the first woman to serve as majority leader in any state senate, serving in Arizona. Smithsonian American Women's History Museum #WHM2024

Hazel Fellows has come to represent the group of women seamstresses, pattern cutters, and assemblers who made the suits for the Apollo space program.

Learn more from National Air and Space Museum curator Emily A. Margolis in our digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible”: s.si.edu/4c3VSZ9

Join us Wednesday, March 27 for a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon and help make women's history more visible!

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Margaret Knight was an American inventor best known for a machine that mechanized the manufacture flat-bottom paper bags.

Learn more about her in our first digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible”: s.si.edu/3wHPCWB

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📽️ Now accepting applications!

Our Spotlight Documentary Residency will support four teams of filmmakers and community builders in chronicling the histories of notable American women and girls.

Learn more and apply today: s.si.edu/3wZlnuw

Famed milliner Mae Reeves was a businesswoman whose legacy was to empower and enfranchise African Americans across Philadelphia and the country. 60 original Mae Reeves creations are on display in our museum's Power of Place exhibition. More: s.si.edu/4920bRL

Listen and learn more about Japan-born American painter Hisako Hibi from americanart Curator of Twentieth-Century Art Melissa Ho.

Hibi is featured in our first digital exhibition, 'Becoming Visible': s.si.edu/4c3VSZ9

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.. Patsy A. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. 'We have to build things that we want to see accomplished…to make sure that others do not have to suffer the same discrimination.” – Patsy Mink Smithsonian American Women's History Museum #WHM2024

Elizabeth C. Babcock has been named director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, effective June 3.

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#OnThisDay in 1959 Lorraine Hansberry critically acclaimed play, “A Raisin in the Sun” opened on Broadway. It is the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. #WomensHistoryMonth