By Will Schneider :: On April 22, 1867, two young African American sisters of Sacramento, California stood upon the stage and gave their first professional concert. At only nine and eleven years old, Emma Louise Hyers and Anna Madah Hyers, filled San Francisco’s Metropolitan Theater with 800 listeners. Their beautiful soprano and contralto voices wonContinue Reading The Hyers Sisters Concert Debut
By Jeannette Butts :: On April 4, 1906, a conference about women’s suffrage was held in Portland with speakers from around the state which featured suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway. Duniway is considered the “Mother of Equal Suffrage” and “the pioneer Woman Suffragist of the great Northwest.” In 1850, an act passed in Oregon which allowedContinue Reading Marching to Victory! The Briefest History of Women’s Suffrage in Oregon
By Tanya Monthey :: The first female senator to be elected into the US Senate was Hattie Wyatt Caraway from Arkansas in 1932. Twenty-eight years later, Oregon elected Maurine Neuberger to become the third woman ever to be elected for the US Senate. Though many women before Neuberger had served as US Senators, they didContinue Reading Oregon Trailblazer | Maurine Neuberger