Ethiopian Women's Org.EWO for all Women
Located in the DFW Metroplex

 
 
 
 
 

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Celebrate Black History Month

February Highlights in US Women's History

  • Feb 1, 1978 - First postage stamp to honor a black woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Washington, DC
  • Feb 4, 1987 - First National Women in Sports Day is celebrated by Presidential Proclamation
  • Feb. 12 1869 - the Utah Territory passes a law allowing women to vote
  • Feb 15, 1921 - The Suffrage Monument, depicting Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, and carved by Adelaide Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol
  • Feb 15, 1953 - Tenley Albright is the first American woman to win the World Figure Skating championship
  • Feb 17, 1870 - Esther Hobart Morris became the first American woman Justice of the Peace
  • Feb 24, 1912 - Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Jewish organization in American history, focusing on healthcare and education in the Israel and the US
  • Feb 24, 1967 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star
  • Feb 25 1986 - Corazon Aquino sworn in as the first woman President of the Philippines
  • Feb 27, 1922 - US Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees women the right to vote

February Birthdays

  • Feb 1, 1878 (1950) - Hattie Wyatt Caraway , first woman elected to the US Senate(1932, D-AR) and first woman to preside over the Senate in 1943
  • Feb 3, 1821 (1910) - Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman awarded a medical degree in US (1849)
  • Feb 3, 1874 (1946) - Gertrude Stein, poet, author, art critic; famous for: "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
  • Feb 4, 1913 (2005) - Feb 4, 1913 - Rosa Parks - "Mother of Civil Rights Movement;" her arrest after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.With her consent, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson along with a colleague and two students mimeographed 35,000 handbills calling for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system, which eventual led to the Supreme Court decision to integrate buses.
  • Feb 4, 1921 (2006) - Betty Friedan, a uthor and activist; wrote “The Feminine Mystique” (1963); cofounder of National Organization for Women (NOW) (1966)
  • Feb 7, 1867 (1957) - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of beloved "Little House" books
  • Feb 9, 1944 - Alice Walker, writer, first African American woman to win Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for “The Color Purple” (1983)
  • Feb 10, 1927 - Leontyne Price, Grammy award winning opera singer
  • Feb 13, 1906 (1990) - Pauline Frederick, journalist, first woman network radio correspondent (1939), first woman to moderate a presidential debate (1976)
  • Feb 15, 1820 (1906) - Susan B. Anthony, leader of 19th century women's right movement; strategist; lecturer
  • Feb 16, 1870 (1927) - Leonora O'Reilly, labor organizer; founding member of Woman's Trade Union League; helped found NAACP
  • Feb 18, 1931 - Toni Morrison , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist; first African-American to win Nobel Prize for Literature (1993)
  • Feb 21, 1855 (1902) - Alice Freeman Palmer, educator; founded predecessor organization to American Assn. of University Women (AAUW) in 1881
  • Feb 22, 1876 (1938) - Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sha), writer; Sioux Indian activist; founded National Council of American Indians (1926)
  • Feb 22, 1892 (1950) - Edna St. Vincent Millay, first woman to receive Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923)
  • Feb 27, 1897 (1993) - Marian Anderson, opera singer, first African-American member of the New York Metropolitan Opera (1955)
 
 

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                               የዓላማችን አንባር እናት ልጇን ይዛ

                            

ሴቶች በዚህ ዓለም ላይ በምንኖርበት ግዜ ማንኛውም ሴት ሰባዓዊ መብቷ ተጠብቆ ከወንዶች ጋር በእኩልነት ደረጃ በትዳር ዓለም ውስት ሁነ በሥራ ወይንም በማንኛውም ቦታ ከወንዶች ጋር በእኩልነት ደረጃ እንድትታይና ተባብረው እንዲኖሩ ነው ።

እኛም በዳላስና በፎርት ዎርዝ የምንገኘው የኢትዮጵያ የሴቶች ድርጅት አላማ ያልተስተካከለውን ለማስተካከል የልታየቸውን ለማሳየት ለማያውቁት ለማስተማር ትምህርት ለመስጠት ሲሆን ከዚህም በላይ ልዩ ልዩ ችግር ያላቸውን ሴቶችም ሆነ ወንዶች ለመርዳት እንጥራለን እናቶችም ይህን ዓላማ በመከተል የሴቶች መብትና እኩልነት ሚዛን ምን ያህል መሆኑን ማስተማርና ለወደፊቱ ትውልድ እንዲያስተላልፉ የምንግዜም ትግላችን ነው ።

 በዳላስና በፎርትዎርዝ የሚገኘው የኢትዮጵያ የሴቶች ድርጅት።

Ethiopian Women's Organization has worked tirelessly to help those that have been abused, neglected and is in need of help and compassion.

Please recognize all the women and men who dedicate their time and effort to help those who are less fortunate or in need for their efforts to help bring peace to someone’s life.                                                        

Please join us hand in hand to make a difference.

                                     


Mission

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Ethiopian Women Organization is dedicated  to eliminating all forms of discrimination, promoting equality,peace and justice. By empowering women, it assists with access to education, employment and public services. Also committed, to ease the transition and overcome cultural and language barrier challenges.                                                                                                  

                                                      

                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                           

        

Why You Should Join:

                                           

 Every person needs a chance at life.  There has been a time when we all have needed help. Now I believe it is time for you to do the same. We understand that everyone is busy with work and their families, but some people don't even have a stable job or a family to go home to. Some are alone in this country with no one to give them a chance, just maybe you're the person to do it. So please find the time in your busy schedule and come to our meetings and participate in our organization.