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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
A SURVIVOR OF HER TIME —
AND A WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO BOW.
She wore it every day. And history proved her right.”
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, born in 1832 to abolitionist parents who believed their daughters deserved the same education as their sons. At a time when corsets and silence were expected of women, she wore trousers, studied medicine, and spoke her truth.
In 1855, she earned her M.D. from Syracuse Medical College, one of the first women in the nation to do so. When the Civil War began, she volunteered to serve. The Union Army told her no. Women could nurse, not cut, not lead, not command.
She went anyway. She worked in battlefield hospitals, crossed enemy lines to treat the wounded, was captured by Confederate soldiers, and survived months as a prisoner of war.
In 1865, President Andrew Johnson awarded her the Medal of Honor, the only woman in U.S. history to receive it.
Then, in 1917, Congress tried to revoke it. She wrote back: No.
She wore it every day until she died in 1919, pinned to her chest like armor. 58 years later, in 1977, the medal was restored.
History caught up.
“I don’t wear men’s clothes. I wear my own clothes.”
– Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
She wasn’t waiting for permission.
She was building a future where women no longer had to ask for it.
The world called her crazy.
History calls her right.
Just because ...
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2 comments:
What a brave, clever, .... and good person Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was. A role model for many of us.
Yes, indeed. Seems a bit grouchy, but that may be to expected?
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