Women's History Month
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Women's History Month
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March is Women’s History Month. 2025’s theme is “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations.”
Nell Sykes was a Salem schoolteacher, who lived at 1251 Center Street NE here in Salem during the 1920s. She was a teacher in Salem Public Schools - dietician who served the American Red Cross Commission to Siberia between 1918 and 1920. To see a photo of Nell in the Library of Congress prints and photographs online catalog from April 10, 1920, please visit their American National Red Cross photograph collection.
If you want to learn more about the work of the American Red Cross in Russia during their Civil War, please take a look at Julia Irwin’s article titled “The Great White Train” in Science Direct’s Endeavour journal, Volume 36 no. 3.