Significant Dates in history for Women, Women of Color, and YW Boston: 

January 1 (approx), 1941: Lucy Miller Mitchell becomes the first woman of color elected to the YW Boston's Board.  

February 19, 1868: YW Boston opens boarding home for 75 young women on Beach Street in Boston.

February 28, 1877 – Helen Magill White becomes the first woman in the US to earn a Ph.D. (from BU!) 

March 1, 1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler graduates from the New England Female Medical College in Boston, becoming the first Black woman in the US to earn a medical degree   

March 3, 1866: YW Boston was founded (known as YWCA Boston at the time). 

March 4, 1929: YW Boston's building at 140 Clarendon Street opens as the new headquarters.  

April 13, 1970: YWCA National adopts the One Imperative: To Eliminate Racism Wherever It Exists, By Any Means Necessary. 

April 30 (approx) 1968: YW Boston founds the Aswalos House in Roxbury as resource for Boston's Black community. In 1990 it launches a new program to support teen mothers. 

May 17, 1975: Brown vs. Board of Education rules to end segregation in public schools. YW Boston supports NAACP's March on Boston for quality desegregated education. 

May 20, 1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight 

June 1 (approx), 1995: YW Boston's first Academy of Women Achievers celebration  

June 10, 1963: Equal Pay Act signed prohibiting gender-based wage discrimination. 

July 2, 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 becomes law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. 

July 15 (approx), 1887: YW Boston collaborates with Traveler's Aid to welcome immigrants to Boston.  

July 19, 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention was held in New York as one of the first women's rights conventions in the US. 

August 6, 1965: Voting Rights Act is enforced nationally, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.  

August 18, 1920: Ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote nationally. 

August 28, 1963: Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives his "I Have A Dream" speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial. 

September 5, 2019: YW Boston's youth empowerment program, F.Y.R.E. begins.  

September 23, 1981: Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as the first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice. 

November 5, 1968: Shirley Chisholm is elected to the U.S. Congress, becoming the first Black woman in Congress. 

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on the bus, prompting the year-long Montgomery bus boycott.  

December 8, 1884: YW Boston's building at 40 Berkeley Street opens, including the first gymnasium for women.