by Kathi Santora | Oct 31, 2024
(October 31, 2024) Joanne Goldsmith, a Maryland Women’s Heritage Center (MWHC) founding board member and a continuous MWHC supporter, passed away on October 29, 2024. Among her many notable accomplishments, Joanne courageously stood up for desegregation and...
by Kathi Santora | Sep 23, 2024
(September 23, 2024) Want to research the life of a family member or local woman of note? You don’t need to be a trained historian or genealogist. Join the MWHC and the Worcester County Public Library to learn how to get started. You can “add HER story to history to...
by Kathi Santora | Sep 4, 2024
(September 4, 2024) Upcoming MWHC artist Malynda Madzel recently reflected on her unlikely path to becoming an artist in her 70s: “My journey into abstract painting began over 50 years ago, without a paint brush or a color chart anywhere in my line of vision. I...
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...
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...
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...
