When Angelina andSarah Grimke, daughters of a slave-holding family in South Carolina, began lecturing against slavery in the northeastern United States in the mid-1830s, their actions were condemned. Women belonged at home with their children, not at the lectern. Hostility toward women’s involve...
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Category: Activists Activists Activists,First Women,Social Reformers First Women’s Rights Activists II May 28, 2020•Maggie Pioneers in the Fight for Women’s Rights Activism consists of efforts to promote changes in society, politics, the economy, or the environment. Activism can be expressed ...
House Representatives on Tuesday — a political victory that until this year had been beyond reach for numerous Native American women. Her fellow Democrat Sharice Davids, who is Ho-Chunk, also won her historic bid to represent a U.S. House district in Kansas....
America's women activists have striven bravely and tirelessly to affect the course of American history. Their story, as told in letters, memoirs, diaries, and speeches, is as wide and varied as America itself. This anthology begins with the then-government's attempt to silence Anne Hutchinson...
American feminist activists who have been described as “solitary” and “individual theorists” were in reality connected to a movement —utopian socialism—which was already popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades that cachinnated in the first women’s rights confer...
Radicalism at the crossroads: African American women activists in the Cold War With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what black women activists did prior to 1960. Perhaps this gap is due...
1830s, free Blackcommunitiesin the Northern states had become sufficiently large and organized to hold regular national conventions, where Black leaders gathered to discussalternativestrategies of racial advancement. In 1833 a small minority of whites joined with Black antislavery activists to form the...
Tillie Olsen was an American writer and social activist known for her powerful fiction about the inner lives of the working poor, women, and minorities. Her interest in long-neglected women authors inspired the development of academic programs in women’
Over the next two years, as NOW struggled to establish itself as a national organization, more radical women’s groups were formed by female antiwar, civil rights, and leftist activists who had grown disgusted by the New Left’s refusal to address women’s concerns. Ironically, sexist ...