Lucile Wilcox Roeder combined family, volunteerism and public service into a life well-lived

by Kathi Santora | May 31, 2024

(May 30, 2024) Lucile Wilcox Roeder was born in 1903, before women could vote. However, her life in Mountain Maryland was one of public service and volunteerism. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in education from Temple University in 1926 and taught physical education...

N. Louise Young Spencer, Maryland’s first African American female physician, delivered babies for 50+ years

by Kathi Santora | May 29, 2024

(May 29, 2024) As the only daughter of Howard E. Young, Maryland’s first African American licensed pharmacist, and Estelle Hall Young, a high-profile West Baltimore community activist and suffragist, it is not surprising that N. Louise Young Spencer earned...

MWHC joins other women’s advocates to applaud the Maryland legislature’s bill that urges action on Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

by Kathi Santora | Apr 9, 2024

(April 9, 2024) The Maryland ERA-affirming resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 1, passed on the House floor. The resolution clearly affirms the Legislature’s view that the federal Equal Rights Amendment is valid and should finally be published as a part of the United...

Dr. Phyllis Williams rose above mid-century segregation to become a groundbreaking economist and government leader

by Kathi Santora | Mar 30, 2024

(March 30, 2024) In 1948, when Phyllis Ann Wallace earned her PhD from Yale, Black people still couldn’t eat in many restaurants or try on clothes in department stores. Women, Black and White, were shut out of workplaces or treated poorly. With a stellar combination...

Astronaut Mary Cleave looked at Earth from the Atlantis window and promised to protect her

by Kathi Santora | Mar 29, 2024

(March 29, 2024) By the time astronaut Mary Cleave moved to Maryland in 1991 to work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, she had already flown on two Atlantis Space Shuttle missions. In those, she orbited the Earth 172 times, traveling 3.94 million miles.  An...