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Just months after the revelations of the Holocaust's devastation, Bess Myerson was crowned the first (and only) Jewish Miss America in 1945.

Myerson refused to adopt a suggested less-ethnic pseudonym, and her victory was seen as a symbol of America's rejection of the crimes and prejudices that ravaged Europe as well as a representation of the vitality of the American Jewish community.

Myerson's win did not receive automatic acceptance. When an invitation to speak at a country club was revoked because of her Judaism, Myerson distanced herself from the pageant scene, and instead began lecturing about discrimination and the consequences of prejudice.

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The first transport of Jews to Auschwitz was 997 teenage girls. Few survived. As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Edith Friedman Grosman, who was 17 when she arrived at the N**i concentration camp, tells her harrowing story in a new book

"On this date in 1898 (April 20th), Laura Smith Haviland died, at the age of 89. (Born Dec. 20, 1808.) Quaker. Pacifist. Abolitionist. Feminist. Suffragist. In 1832, after moving to Michigan Territory from western New York, Laura helped organize the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society, the first anti-slavery organization in Michigan. In 1837, she and her husband Charles founded the Raisin Institute, the first racially integrated school in Michigan.

"The Haviland farm became Michigan's first Underground Railroad station. Laura personally escorted escaped slaves into Canada. She also made trips into the deep South and attempted to liberate the children of fugitive slaves. A bounty of $3,000 was placed on her head, dead or alive, by a Tennessee slave-owner. The town of Haviland, Kansas is named in her honor.

"Born in Kitley, Ontario, Canada. Died in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Buried in the Raisin Valley Cemetery, Adrian, Michigan, next to Charles. ~The Marginal Mennonite Society Heroes Series"

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"On this date in 1898 (April 20th), Laura Smith Haviland died, at the age of 89. (Born Dec. 20, 1808.) Quaker. Pacifist. Abolitionist. Feminist. Suffragist. In 1832, after moving to Michigan Territory from western New York, Laura helped organize the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society, the first anti-slavery organization in Michigan. In 1837, she and her husband Charles founded the Raisin Institute, the first racially integrated school in Michigan.

"The Haviland farm became Michigan's first Underground Railroad station. Laura personally escorted escaped slaves into Canada. She also made trips into the deep South and attempted to liberate the children of fugitive slaves. A bounty of $3,000 was placed on her head, dead or alive, by a Tennessee slave-owner. The town of Haviland, Kansas is named in her honor.

"Born in Kitley, Ontario, Canada. Died in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Buried in the Raisin Valley Cemetery, Adrian, Michigan, next to Charles. ~The Marginal Mennonite Society Heroes Series"

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Ukrainian girl at war 🇺🇦

Illustration - Hadyechenko

The First Supper
by Susan Dorothea White
“The First Supper is after Leonardo da Vinci's dramatic painting The Last Supper. Although The Last Supper is a magnificent composition, I wanted to challenge the acceptance of the image of thirteen men on one side of a table as a celebrated symbol of a patriarchal religion. In place of the men, all with similar features, I painted thirteen women from different parts of the world. I used a calculator to construct my composition in proportion to Leonardo's.”