97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

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This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate brave women, including one who became the first person ever to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive – and an aviation pioneer who became the first person ever to survive a solo flight west across the Atlantic, against the headwinds. Also: a little-known landmark Supreme Court decision that advanced the cause of racial justice, and a group of North Carolina women who took a patriotic stand in the years before the Revolutionary War.

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