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March 22, 2001

Bernice Colvard, Virginia Women's Legacies: National Women's History Month, Richmond, Va.: League of Women Voters of Virginia, [2001], HQ1438.V8 C65 2001, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. Bernice Colvard, Virginia Women's Legacies: National Women's History Month, Richmond, Va.: League of Women Voters of Virginia, [2001], HQ1438.V8 C65 2001, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

The League of Women Voters Celebrated Women's History Month

In 2001 the League of Women Voters of Virginia celebrated National Women's History Month by producing a leaflet entitled "Virginia Women's Legacies." This pamphlet described thirty Virginia women with historical significance. Included are Ida Stover, mother of president Dwight D. Eisenhower; Anne Spencer, internationally distinguished Harlem Renaissance poet; and Yvonne Bond Miller, Virginia's first African American woman legislator.