Women's History Month School TV Show Scripts

A collection of MHTV Scripts for
To my Murray Hill Teachers: Inspired by Ms. Whye and Black History
Month, I thought it would be cool to start a collection of MHTV scripts
highlighting quotes, the accomplishments, profiles, and facts about
inspiring women in history.
It’s easy to do!
Below, copy the first part of the script and add a few sentences, facts, or quotes. Our TV
show kids will look up a photo go go with the story and we will read it out to the school.
I will print out the scripts for the show. If you can, please try to include a source at the
bottom of the script & a link to help our kiddos. All work is Creative Commons with
Attribution.
This resource will be able to be used again next year, with a few updates and additions.
Thank you! @GwynethJones - The Daring Librarian.
Some Helpful Resources:
Official Women’s History Month Page - Library of Congress
50 Fascinating Facts for Women’s History Month
Women's History - Facts, Figures, Events & Pictures
8 Key Facts to Know About Modern Women's History
Women's History Month | TIME For Kids
Celebrate Women's History Month - The New York Times
Women’s History Month & The National Archives

MHTV National NEWS ITEM
Please Announce on: Wed March 1 (or first day of month)
Submitted by: Ms. Jones
(Type msg. Below in 16 pt. Size)
Women's History Month is an annual declared month that
highlights the contributions of women to events in history and
contemporary society.
The United States Congress passed a public law in 1987 which
designated the month of March as Women's History Month.
It is celebrated during March in the United States but also in the
United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with International
Women's Day on March 8.
Throughout this month we will be sharing with you inspiring
quotes, amazing accomplishments, and interesting facts about
significant historical and contemporary women.
For more information or to interact with this story use the hashtag
#MHTVNews and #WomensHistoryMonth
Created at MHMS by @GwynethJones, @MsDaniller, & @DunbarMarkJ

Please Announce on: Thursday March 2 (or 2nd day of month)
The theme of this year’s National Women’s History Month is
“Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business”
Women have always worked, but often their work has been
undervalued and unpaid.
We’d like to share one of the 2017 honorees, an amazing woman
named Lucy Gonzalez Parsons - Born in 1853, Ms. Parsons was
a labor organizer, writer, speaker, radical socialist, and an
anarchist. At the height of her activism, Parsons was described by
the Chicago Police Department as “more dangerous than a
thousand rioters.”
Lucy Gonzalez Parsons had Native American, African American,
and Mexican heritage. Parsons is credited with envisioning strikes
of the future, where, rather than walking out, strikers would stay in
and take over property and production. Thus creating what would
later become sit-down strikes during the U.S. civil rights
movement.
(Source)

Please Announce on: Friday March 3
In our celebration of Women’s History Month we’d like to share
this with you: The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade
On this day over 100 years ago, more than 8,000 women
gathered in Washington, D.C. to call for a constitutional
amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. The
suffragettes marched up Pennsylvania Avenue, along with 20
parade floats, nine bands, and some even riding on horseback.
Not all spectators were kind. Some marchers were jostled,
tripped, and violently attacked, while police on the parade route
did little to help. By the end of the day, over 100 women had to
be hospitalized for injuries. However, the women did not give up;
they finished the parade.
While it took another seven years for the Nineteenth
Amendment to be ratified on August 18, 1920, the women who
marched on this day in history accomplished their goal of
reinvigorating the suffrage movement.
MHTV Source & Photos

Please Announce on: Monday March 6th
this with you:
Boudicca (pronounced boo-dika) was the warrior Queen of a tribe
of Celts based in eastern England. In 60 AD, during the Roman
invasion of Britain, she led a revolt against the Romans and
almost drove the empire off the island.
After the death of her husband the king, the Romans seized her
property, beat her near to death, and abused her daughters. After
that, she raised an army and led a rebellion against the Romans.
According to the Roman historian Dio: “Two cities were
sacked and eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies
perished. Moreover, all this ruin was brought upon the Romans by
a woman, a fact which in itself caused them the greatest shame,”
Though ultimately she lost and Britain was conquered, Rome had
never expected a woman to put up such a furious and deadly
fight. A statue of her, riding a chariot, stands in a park in London.
Info Source (Picture)

Please Announce on: Tuesday March 7th
this with you:
Actress, Inventor, & Mathematician Hedy Lamar developed, in
1942, a secret communication system that would take down Nazi
submarines and later gave birth to a frequency system now used
in Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi.
Photo Source - - Intel Source & Google Doodle Video

Please Announce on: Wednesday March 8th
(Type msg. Below in 16 or 18 pt. Size)
this with you:
Did you know that a woman founded the oldest university
in the world?
Fatima Muhammad Al-Fihri founded the Al Qarawiyyin
(pronounced: al-Kara-ween) mosque and university in
Morocco in 859 CE. The university, still in existence,
became an important center for education and one of the
“first Islamic and most prestigious universities in the
world.”
Source w/ picture

Please Announce on: Thursday March 9th
this with you:
Did you know that a woman was elected to Congress four
years before women had the right to vote?
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to
hold national office in the United States when she was
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916 by
the state of Montana as a member of the Republican Party
Rankin was also instrumental in the legislation that
eventually became the 19th Constitutional Amendment,
granting voting rights to women. She championed the
causes of gender equality and civil rights throughout a
career that spanned more than sixty years. After retiring
from political life, she even traveled to India to study the
pacifist teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
Source

Please Announce on: Friday March 10th
this with you:
Did you know that a woman helped discover the molecular
structure of DNA?
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray
crystallographer who made contributions to the
understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA,
viruses, coal, and graphite.
(Source)

Please Announce on: Wednesday March 15th -- NOT PiDay!
Submitted by:
this with you:
Did you know that a woman helped invent the computer?
Countess Ada Lovelace - daughter of Lord Byron, was an
English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her
work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical
general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She
also invented the plans for a flying machine when she was
only 12 years old. That’s why she’s often called the Mother
of Computing
(History Channel Source)

Please Announce on: Thursday March 16th
Submitted by: Ms. Daniller
this with you:
Ever heard the phrase “breaking the glass ceiling?” Well,
Katharine Graham did just that in the field of journalism and
publishing by becoming the first female publisher of the
Washington Post, and the first female Fortune 500 CEO.
She led the Washington Post for over two decades and won a
Pulitzer Prize for her own autobiography in 1997.
Katharine Graham fought hard for respect in a field that did not
always take her seriously as a woman, and paved the way for
other women in publishing.
For more information or to interact with this story use the
hashtags #MHTVNews and #WomensHistoryMonth

Please Announce on: Friday, March 17th
(Type msg. Below in 16-18 pt. Size)
this with you:
While we haven’t had a female president in the United
States, yet, we have had many women in the presidential
line of succession! Frances Perkins was the first, when
she served as the U.S Secretary of Labor from 1933 to
1945, the first woman in a cabinet position.
Through her work, she executed many parts of FDR’s
New Deal, established the first minimum wage, created
laws against child labor, and many other actions to protect
workers that still impact us today.

Please Announce on: Monday, March 20th
this with you:
You’ve probably heard of Aretha Franklin and the
legendary song “Respect,” but did you know that the
queen of soul was the first woman inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame?
With 112 hit singles in Gospel, R&B and Soul music
categories and 18 Grammys over her amazing career,
Aretha Franklin was named the #1 Greatest Singer of All
Time by Rolling Stone magazine. Still performing today,
she has been making an impact in music and culture for
over 60 years!

Please Announce on: Tuesday March 21st
this with you:
Vijaya Lakshimi Pandit was an Indian politician who
achieved lot of firsts for women! She was the first woman
in India’s cabinet after gaining independence from Great
Britain.
She served as an ambassador for India for many years,
then as a delegate to the United Nations. In 1953, Vijaya
Pandit became the first female president of the United
Nations, making a huge impact on the entire world.

Please Announce on: Wednesday March 22nd
this with you:
You probably know her name, but do you know why
Malala Yousafzai is honored as a hero for women’s rights?
She has been fighting for the right for girl’s around the
world to get an education since she was 12 years old!
After her experience being shot just for going to school,
Malala has become an activist for education for women
and girls around the world, and has created an
international movement for equality.
She is the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize at only 17 years old, and one of only 48
women in the history of the Nobel Prize.

Please Announce on: Thursday March 23rd
Janet Harmon Bragg broke through barriers of both race
and gender to achieve her dreams. She was the only
woman in her class at the Aeronautical University in
Chicago in 1933, but did not let that stop her.
After learning how to fly, she tried to join the Women’s
Airforce Service Pilots Organization during World War 2,
but was denied because she was black. She was also
denied admission to the military nurse corps, due to her
race.
Determined not to give up, she enrolled in the Civilian Pilot
Training Program at Tuskegee Institute to earn her
commercial pilot’s license. Even though she passed the
test, she was initially denied her license because she was
a black woman.
She still did not give up, and took the test again in
Chicago, where she passed and became the first black
woman to receive a commercial pilot’s license. Her
perseverance paved the way for women of all races in
aviation across the country.

Please Announce on: Friday, March 24th
this with you:
Did you know that a woman founded the oldest university
in the world?
Fatima Muhammad Al-Fihri founded the Al Qarawiyyin
(pronounced: al-Kara-ween) mosque and university in
Morocco in 859 CE. The university, still in existence,
became an important center for education and one of the
“first Islamic and most prestigious universities in the
world.”
Source w/ picture

Please Announce on: Wednesday, March 29th
Submitted by: Dunbar
this with you:
Did you know that the gothic novel Frankenstein was
written by a woman?
Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer,
dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best
known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern
Prometheus. She was born in 1797, and her mother was
the famous feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley
spent her younger years working on her art with other
famous poets of her time, and eventually married one of
them. Unfortunately, he died in a sailing accident, and
Mary Shelley had to make a living through her writing. It
was hard work, especially in the early 1800’s, when
female writers had a very difficult time getting published,
but her most famous novel, Frankenstein or The Modern
Prometheus, is still taught here at Murray Hill 200 years
later.

Please Announce on: ____________________
Let's finish #WomensHistoryMonth STRONG
#LikeAGirl Here's a Pretty Powerful Video - take a look at this:
http://youtu.be/XjJQBjWYDTs
(Find by Googling: Always Like a Girl video - STOP VIDEO At
3:02 when the girl is running!)
So let’s never forget girls and women, that Like a Girl, isn’t an
insult… and if you’re ever made to feel like that, prove them
wrong and do your best to: win, succeed, achieve, and create
great things… Like a Girl!

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