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Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) …
During World War II, as women stepped in to fill jobs vacated by men in the armed services, the federal government established public child care centers in local communities for …
The mid-Seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women's Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amendment inched toward passage. …
The experiences of widows and their children during the Progressive Era and the New Deal depended on differences in local economies and values. How did these widely varied …
Frances E. Willard's powerful leadership of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) made her one of the most commanding figures in the reform movements of the nineteenth …
Lara Vapnek tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage. During this period, working women in the nation's …
At age twenty-six Alice Freeman became the world's first female college president (at Wellesley College). Before going on to become the first Dean of Women at the University of …
The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouseJan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in …