Kate Kennedy Remembrance • Colma

Kate Kennedy Remembrance • June 3

Kate Kennedy Remembrance: A tribute to a 19^th Century Champion for Women’s Rights and Workers’ Rights.

Sunday, June 3, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM, Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma

Sponsored by Irish Marvels Past and Present, the United Irish Cultural Center and the United Irish Societies.
More information email Jo Coffey at [email protected]

Guest Speaker: SF Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White

Among the host of people who down the ages have gone largely unheralded despite their significant contributions to the advancement of social justice is Kate Kennedy, an Irish 19th century San Francisco school teacher. In 1874 her test case secured the legal precedent in the United States for equal pay for women doing the same work as men. In 1886 she was the first woman in California to run for state-wide public office–State Superintendent of Schools. And in 1890 her test case ended, once for all, the political spoils system in California: no longer could civil service workers–and that included teachers–be fired except for professional “misconduct or incompetency.” read more at FoundSF