February 3, 1893
Abigail Ashbrook of Willingboro, New Jersey, refused to pay taxes because, as a woman, she was denied the right to vote.
February 3, 1964
In New York City, 464,000 students, mostly black and Puerto Rican, comprising nearly half the citywide enrollment, boycotted the New York City schools for one day to protest the system’s de facto segregation, 10 years after Brown v. Board of Education.
