Let's go shred with Judi Oyama for #GoSkateboardingDay! 🛹 Learn more about the award-winning professional skateboarder: s.si.edu/3XtNsp2 📷: John Krisick, 1977, National Museum of American History #GoSkateDay #GoSkateboarding

Born #OnThisDay in 1880, Helen Keller was an accomplished writer and renowned champion for human rights. Learn more about her and the watch she received as a gift when she was a teen: s.si.edu/4eEKEeW 📷: Charles Whitman, 1904 @SmithsonianNPG ⌚️: National Museum of American History

Just as Dr. Marian Pettibone’s name is forever linked to the worms she studied, her history is intertwined with the centuries-long fight for the recognition of women in science. Read more about the former Smithsonian NMNH curator. #InternationalPolychaeteDay s.si.edu/4cmk9cp

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Though excluded from national leadership, Black women were the backbone of the civil rights movement. Learn more about Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Mamie Till-Mobley: s.si.edu/4ckeJie

🎾 Althea Gibson became the first Black player to win #Wimbledon #OnThisDay in 1957. Learn more: s.si.edu/3W5BhgR 📷: Wallace Seawell, 1959, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Smithsonian’s NMAAHC

Renowned educator and reformer Mary McLeod Bethune was born #OnThisDay in 1875. Learn more: s.si.edu/4cDXEAc 🖼️: Betsy Graves Reyneau, 1943; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Peter Edward Fayard National Portrait Gallery USA

Among the most famous Black authors of the late nineteenth century, journalist, suffragist, and civil rights activist, Ida B. Wells was born #OnThisDay in 1862. s.si.edu/4cRXoNA 📷: Sallie E. Garrity, 1893 National Portrait Gallery USA

#OnThisDay in 1848, the women's suffrage movement in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention. Learn more: s.si.edu/4f7pjeg 📷: Unidentified, “[Seneca Falls, New York (upstream)],” ca. 1850, daguerreotype, Smithsonian American Art Museum americanart

#OnThisDay in 1969, Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon. Hazel Fellows has come to represent the group of women pattern cutters, seamstresses, and assemblers who made the spacesuits for the program. Read more: s.si.edu/3zUsu8S 📷: National Air and Space Museum

G⚽️AL! Get excited for the #Paris2024 Olympics with @RosarioDawson, a member of our advisory council! Read more from National Museum of American History curator Eric W. Jentsch: s.si.edu/3LF92Qd #SmithsonianOlympics

#OnThisDay in 1911, Harriet Quimby became the first licensed female pilot in the United States. s.si.edu/3Ytplav 📷: National Air and Space Museum

American Joan Benoit Samuelson became the first women's Olympic marathon champion #OnThisDay at the 1984 #Olympics in Los Angeles. She wore this running singlet at the 1980 Cascade Run Off in Portland, Oregon. 📷: City of Boston Archives 🏃‍♀️‍➡️: National Museum of American History #OTD

Happy birthday Ella Jenkins! 🎉 The "First Lady of Children’s Music" turns 100 today! She has used music to teach children about themselves and the world around them. s.si.edu/46yLlmg @folkways 📷: Bernadelle Ritcher. Courtesy the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

During a career that lasted more than 60 years, "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz helped popularize salsa music in the U.S. 🪙 Cruz is featured on a new quarter as part of our American Women Quarters™ Program in partnership with United States Mint. Learn more: s.si.edu/3YGowvf

Got Paris on the mind? Take a trip to the city of lights with the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, "Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939." Read more about the National Portrait Gallery USA exhibition: womenshistory.si.edu/blog/trail-ame…

#OnThisDay in 1920 the 19th Amendment was ratified. Read eight women's voting history stories you may not know: s.si.edu/46P1BzN 🪧: National Museum of American History

Born #OnThisDay in 1911, Isabel Morgan was a microbiologist who studied the development of immunity to polio viruses. Morgan is featured in our digital exhibition, "Becoming Visible: Bringing American Women's History Into Focus." Read more: s.si.edu/3AoJKDy

In 1961, Katherine Johnson calculated the flight path for America's first astronaut launched into space. Johnson was born #OnThisDay in 1918. Learn more about her: s.si.edu/3AylsqM

Known as "Constance the First," #OnThisDay in 1966, Constance Baker Motley became the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge. s.si.edu/4dB3sed 📷: Photo by Walter Albertin, courtesy of Library of Congress

Wonder what it's like to be a Smithsonian intern? This summer, our interns worked on projects across the institution that amplify women’s voices and contributions throughout history to tell a more complete American story. Learn more about the program: s.si.edu/3AXxlXo