Today in Birthdays: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, born on this day in 1810, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent, writing for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune.
Her book "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" is considered the first major feminist work in the United States, and later feminists like Susan B. Anthony cited her as an inspiration. Fuller was also an advocate of abolishing slavery and prison reform.
Today in Birthdays: Joe Slovo (1926 - 1995)
Joe Slovo was a South African politician and opponent of the apartheid system born on this day in 1926. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Party (SACP), a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a commander of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
Slovo was married to Ruth First, another prominent South African anti-apartheid activist who was assassinated by the government. He, along with First, was arrested and detained for two months during the Treason Trial of 1956, and lived in exile from 1963 to 1990, conducting operations against the apartheid régime from the United Kingdom, Angola, Mozambique, and Zambia.
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