Two images that show women at work in different settings: at home in an urban tenement and in a factory in the rural South. The images also point to the challenges of working motherhood.
VIEW
A suffrage poster with a multi-faceted view of womanhood that places men and women as equals, but still celebrates women as homemakers and caretakers.
VIEW
A newspaper article that challenges the unfair federal policy that tied a woman’s citizenship to that of her husband and offers an example of how one native born American woman was a victim of the system.
VIEW
A photograph of the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, a women-led organization in Atlanta, Georgia that provided a safe haven and social services for black women and children.
VIEW
An advertisement for Margaret Sanger’s women’s health clinic in a predominantly Italian and Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York. This resource demonstrates the challenges women faced in securing their reproductive rights.
VIEW
An illustration that raises questions about the role of women in social reform and outlines the social evils many middle-class citizens feared.
VIEW
An illustration that raises questions about the role of women in social reform and outlines the social evils many middle-class citizens feared.
VIEW
A pair of documents that present competing arguments for and against women gaining the right to vote.
VIEW
