Over 500 women are running for major political office this fall, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. In the past year, revelations of widespread sexual harassment in industry and politics spawned the #MeToo movement, inspiring women to seek higher office in record numbers this …
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Black Teachers Triumph in the Classroom: A Lesson in Integration & Integrity
In 1946, when Daisy Moore and Marietta Bryant were hired to teach African-American children in Globe and Miami, they didn’t know that they would be fired just a few years later after Arizona retracted the law requiring children from “African ancestry” to be segregated from “White” children in kindergarten through …
Read More »Remarkable Women of Arizona: Sarah Sorin Part 2
This is a series on three remarkable women who helped to shape the Globe-Miami community and the State. Sarah Herring Sorin, a pioneer professional, became a lawyer in Tombstone just ten years after the O.K. Corral gunfight. Born in 1861 and educated in New York City, her father, William Herring, …
Read More »Remarkable Women of Arizona: Rose Mofford Part 1
This is a short series on three remarkable women who helped to shape the Globe-Miami Community and the state of Arizona. Globe’s most famous citizen, Rose Mofford, may remember the grief shared by the whole community at Vickrey’s untimely death. Born Rose Perica in Globe in 1922, her father and …
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