This all-female squadron of bomber pilots ran thousands of bombing raids on the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union during World War II. It went the 1985 equivalent of viral, and Danielsson - whose mother had reportedly survived a Nazi concentration camp - was widely hailed as a hero. This incredible image was taken during a 1985 demonstration of the Nordic Reich Party, in the Swedish city of Vaxjo, and shows heroic Danielsson hitting a neo-Nazi over the head with her handbag. This is a photograph of the lovely incident, appropriately titled A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag /F8O3YsI16h King, paving the way for diversity in the police force. This photograph, taken in 1918, shows America’s first female traffic officer, Leola N. But, 12 years before the bus seat incident, Parks resisted that rule, refusing to get off the bus until she was forced off by the driver. Black people used to have to board the front of the bus, pay their fare, and then get off to re-enter through the back door. Seamstress Rosa Parks became one of the central figures in the civil rights movement in the US in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit down.Īnd it wasn’t the first time she resisted segregation on a bus either. While we’re on the subject of pretty cool female pilots, can we also enjoy this picture of the competitors of the American female derby in 1929?
The wreckage was never found, and Earhart was officially declared lost at sea. It was during an attempt to fly around the world that Earhart’s plane disappeared, somewhere over the Pacific in July 1937. And that was just one of her many, many achievements, all in the name of advancing women in aviation. In 1928, American aviator Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Aged just 17 in the photo, French-born Ginesta was a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. This 1936 photograph of Marina Ginesta, a social activist, journalist, and translator, looking out over Barcelona from the roof of the Hotel Colon is one of the most iconic images of the Spanish Civil War. So, give it up for these completely badass women, who were owning feminism way before we donned our pussy hats. There's never a bad time to look back and recognise some of the ground-breaking achievements of our foremothers.
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