NWHM in the News

"The Treasury partnered with the Smithsonian Institution's American Women's History Initiative, the National Women's History Museum and the Congressional Bipartisan Women's Caucus to select its honorees. It also solicited the public's input into whom it should feature on the coins."

The award recognises Mattel for empowering generations and inspiring change, and will be presented at the Women Making History Awards Gala in March.

"The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) has announced that Mattel will be honoured with the inaugural Evelyn Y. Davis Corporate Changemaker Award at NWHM’s Women Making History Awards Gala on 20th March 2025. Accepting the award on the company’s behalf will be Lisa McKnight, executive vice president and chief brand officer of Mattel."

The award, to be presented in 2025, will recognize Mattel for "empowering generations and inspiring change."

"The Evelyn Y. Davis Corporate Changemaker Award is the NWHM’s first-ever corporate award, given to Mattel to recognize the 'societal impact of its brands like Barbie on generations of girls,' and its 'purpose to empower all to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential,' per a release."

Mattel will receive the Evelyn Y. Davis Corporate Changemaker Award in 2025.

"The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) will honor Mattel at the Women Making History Awards Gala early next year. The leading toy and family entertainment company will receive the inaugural Evelyn Y. Davis Corporate Changemaker Award for its contributions to society and influence on the future generations of girls."

"In 1972, she made a largely symbolic run for the Democratic presidential nomination. It was the first time a Black candidate had sought a major party’s nomination for president, and the first time a woman had run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. She was blocked from participating in televised primary debates and, after legal action, was allowed to conduct only one speech, according to the National Women’s History Museum."

"Bridges’ act was not met without racism and backlash from the public: white parents took their children out of school and frequently threw objects at her, according to the National Women’s History Museum."

On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges walked to school in New Orleans with U.S. Marshals agents after desegregation. Folsom Cordova Unified observes this 64 years later.

"Bridges, now 70, became a travel agent for American Express after high school, according to the National Women’s History Museum. In 2011, she viewed Norman Rockwell’s 'The Problem We All Live With' painting, depicting her walking into the Louisiana school as a young girl, next to President Barack Obama at the White House. 'I think it’s fair to say that, if it hadn’t been for you guys, I might not be here, and we wouldn’t be looking at this together,' Obama, America’s first Black president, said to Bridges at the time."

The Maryland National Guard and Gov. Wes Moore officially recognized Harriet Tubman for her military service to both the U.S. and Maryland.

Tubman began working in the field harvesting flax at around the age of 13 and escaped when she was around 27 years old. After she escaped, Tubman dedicated her life to the abolition of slavery, according to the National Women's History Museum.

While the abolitionist might be most well known for her work on the Underground Railroad, she also served in the Union Army

"Tubman was born into slavery in 1822 in Dorchester, Maryland and later in life escaped to Philadelphia. She then became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and it is estimated she helped around 70 people escape to freedom, according to the National Women’s History Museum."

Grandmother of Juneteenth brings play about the woman considered the mother of voter registration to Fort Worth

An article about Hamer on the National Women's History Museum website says, "In June 1963, after successfully completing a voter registration program in Charleston, South Carolina, Hamer and several other Black women were arrested for sitting in a “whites-only” bus station restaurant in Winona, Mississippi. At the Winona jailhouse, she and several of the women were brutally beaten, leaving Hamer with lifelong injuries from a blood clot in her eye, kidney damage, and leg damage."