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Life Story: Ellen Swallow Richards

believe the nearby primary school offered a strong enough education for girls. When Ellen was a teenager, the family moved to a different town so that Ellen could attend one of the few high schools in the region accepting female students. Ellen learned to

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Life Story: Jane Addams

years old. Her father was a prominent businessman, banker, Civil War veteran, and Republican politician who claimed Abraham Lincoln as one of his many friends. His commitment to social reform and women’s education significantly shaped Jane’s view of the

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Life Story: Jovita Idar Juárez

. Jovita’s parents encouraged her to obtain an education. She attended a Methodist school called the Holding Institute. In 1903, she graduated with a teaching certificate and began teaching in the tiny town of Los Ojuelos, Texas. Jovita was frustrated by

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Life Story: Mary Church Terrell

owned a popular hair salon. Mary’s parents insisted that she and her younger brother receive the best possible education. They sent Mary to the Antioch College Model School in Ohio when she was eight years old because they felt the schools in Memphis

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Higher Education and the Domestic Sciences

Higher Education and the Domestic Sciences Document, page 1 of 2 Agricultural College of Utah, Excerpt from The Organization and Course of Instruction of The

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Indigenous Education and Family Separation

Indigenous Education and Family Separation Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return Home, 1/2 Theresa Green, “Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return

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Life Story: Zitkala-Sa

ending. There were no schools on the reservation, and she wanted her daughter to have an education. According to her autobiography, as soon as Zitkala-Sa boarded the train, she regretted begging her mother to let her go. She was about to spend years away

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Fighting for Healthy Women and Families

information and devices, leaving many women uninformed about their own bodies. Middle- and upper-class men and women were more likely to be educated and chose to have fewer children. But poor families who had less access to education continued to struggle with

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Exercise and Functional Fashion

fragile and needed the protection of home. But new research proved all bodies benefit from movement. Schools and colleges required physical education courses for female students, and women fortunate enough to have leisure time used it to pursue exercise

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Black Suffragists

black mother. But without a vote she has no voice in educational legislation, and no power to see that her children secure their share of public-school funds. Black mothers are concerned about education and need the vote to ensure their children receive

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