The story of the highest-ranking woman in the federal government who used her intellect and her network to enforce Prohibition and reform the prison system.
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A page from a union scrapbook highlighting the involvement of women in Depression Era picket lines.
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Propaganda posters recruiting women to different types of war work.
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The story of a labor leader who led a major food-industry strike in her early 20s and was eventually ostracized for her political beliefs.
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Photographs of women sharecroppers taken by agents of the Farm Security Administration.
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Photographs of African American women doing industrial war work.
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The United States Supreme Court opinion in Goesaert v. Cleary that favored laws protecting women from morally corrupt work environments.
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A newspaper article discussing how the end of the war affected women defense workers.
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A federal report on women receiving government assistance in Chicago.
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A newspaper article about a mother who made and sold illegal liquor out of necessity.
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