“I was kind of doing this little Rosie the Riveter meets Uncle Sam,” she ... with the lights of the One World Trade Center in the background, an American flag draped beneath and a reminder ...

During wartime, women entered the workforce, with many recruited to assemble airplanes for the war. Palacioz was one of them.

As some references to the historic contribution of women and other marginalized groups are being erased from the federal ...

By Kathy Chouteau In 1942, after spotting a Department of Defense advertisement recruiting workers, Omezelle Gipson boarded a ...

Every Friday she can be found at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park Visitor Center in Richmond speaking to groups. “It’s kind of the most important thing in ...

Connie Palacioz is Wichita’s own “Rosie the Riveter,” for volunteering at the B-29 Doc hangar during the war. “When visitors come and they ask us, and then I tell them that I worked there ...

Thursday, the Dutch Embassy honored her as one of the “Rosies.” Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon representing women who worked during World War II to support the war. Their efforts helped ...