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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Woman's Rights Activist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped found the American woman's rights movement, led the Seneca Falls Convention, wrote The Woman's Bible and brought about change for women.
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Remember the Ladies: The Women's Rights National Historical Park
1998 marked the 150th anniversary of the First Womens' Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. This brief overview provides a description and history of the Women's Rights Historical Park located in Seneca Falls, New York, authorized in 1980, to preserve and protect those sites that played such a key role during the Convention.
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The Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
When the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1920, American women won the right to vote. This was a hard-won victory.
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Individualist Feminism- A Different Kind Of Women's Movement
This article outlines the history of a less well-known group of feminists, the individualist feminists, and where their libertarian spirited philosophy stands now.
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Tahirih, Poet and Martyr in 19th Century Persia
Tahirih was a 19th century Iranian female poet and a follower of the Báb who was killed both for her beliefs and for championing greater freedom for women.
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The 19th Amendment
It all began in upstate New York in 1848 when five women organized the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.
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Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States
A brief history of the Suffragists fight for the right to vote. Lydia Taft, Abigail Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony
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Women's Words of Wisdom
Women's speeches and quotes honoring Women's History month
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Abigail Scott Duniway (Part 1)
Abigail Scott Duniway was one of the leading women who fought for women's rights in the Pacific Northwest, especially the right to vote. She also fought for the rights for women to enter a contract and for women to have equal rights in a divorce. She also fought for the abolition of slavery. She had six children of her own, but never stopped fighting for human rights.
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Abigail Scott Duniway (Part 2)
Abigail Scott Duniway was one of the leading women who fought for women's rights in the Pacific Northwest, especially the right to vote. She also fought for the rights for women to enter a contract and for women to have equal rights in a divorce. She also fought for the abolition of slavery. She had six children of her own, but never stopped fighting for human rights.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft's writings helped influence the attitudes and philosophies of nineteenth-century women's rights activitsts despite her radical and scandalous life.
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Who Was Isabella Beecher Hooker?
A look at the life of suffragette Isabella Beecher Hooker, daughter of Lyman Beecher and his second wife Harriet Porter Beecher.
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment assured freed slaves the right to vote. At that time a woman's right to vote was still not universal.
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Susan B. Anthony: Freedom Fighter
Susan B. Anthony's fight for the right of women to vote was preceded by her involvement in the abolitionist movement to rid the United States of slavery.
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Effective Feminist Influence on Policy?
Esaay discussing Nina Burleigh's offer to the President.
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From Republic to Democracy
The proclamation that all men are created equal took a long time to fulfill in a nation that originally denied political rights to all but propertied white males.
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Holiday Lesson Ideas July-December
Do you use monthly holidays in your lesson plans? Here's an continuing overview of "holidays" from July to December.
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The Angel of the Battlefield
A brief war and postwar biography of Clara Barton
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The Women's Civil War
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The Women's Rights Movement
Are the freedoms that female human rights activists fought so hard to obtain now being taken for granted?
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Woman Astronomer Maria Mitchell
The discovery of a comet led Mitchell to be the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1848.
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I'm Thankful To Be A Woman
Thanksgiving Special! Why should a woman be thankful for not being a man? Even though women may have difficult issues to deal with, there are LOTS of reasons to be thankful to be a woman.
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Lesbians in Americn History
A look at six lesbian or bisexual women who helped shape American history.
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Sarah Hale, Mother of Thanksgiving
If one knows that Sarah Hale is the famous author of "Mary had a Little Lamb", one may wonder, after reading this, why turkey is the mainstay of Thanksgiving Dinner!
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The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
A gathering that would spark an organized movement to change the status of women in America
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull
The first woman to become a stock broker, address a congressional committee, and run for president, Victoria was a maverick of her time.
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Vinnie Ream
Vinnie Ream's talent was obvious to anyone who spent time in her studio. It's how she played powerful men to showcase that talent that makes for interesting conversation.
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150 Years Of The Women's Rights Movement (Part 1)
1998 marks the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention. Women have a lot to celebrate about what they have achieved in such a short period of time.
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Twenty-Five Greatest Champions of America: Part Four
The continuing series profiling the most effective and principled advocates for the cornerstone tenets of America's founding era.
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William Lloyd Garrison: The Liberator Roars
A look at the life of William Lloyd Garrison and his newspaper, the "Liberator." This controversial man was in the midst of a heated debate not only of slave emancipation but of what freed slaves could be in our country.
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Slavery As The Issue: The Causes Revisited.
This piece revisits the issue of slavery as a cause of the Civil War by breaking it down into four distinct parts: slavery as a moral, social relations, economic, and political issue.
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Susan B. Anthony - The Woman for All Women
This is the story behind Susan B. Anthony's life and her determination to change the rights of women. From her upbringing in a Quaker home to the Women's Suffrage movements, her journey and challenges are truly inspiring for any woman in search of a beginning.
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Jewels for Christmas from Avi, Susan Albert and Raab Associates
Reviews of popular books for the Christmas season by well-known and not so known children's authors. Interview with AVI and Susan Wittig Albert.
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