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Life Story: Nellie Bly

. Although several newspapers turned down her application because she was a woman, she was eventually given the opportunity to write for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. In her first act of “stunt” journalism for the World, Elizabeth pretended to be

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Life Story: Jovita Idar Juárez

Golfo, La Luz, La Prensia, and Evolución. Each of them provided a new opportunity for activism through journalism. In 1917, Jovita married Bartolo Juárez and moved to San Antonio, Texas. She and her husband founded the Democratic Club and became

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Black Suffragists

Black Suffragists Colored Women as Voters, 1/2 "Colored Women as Voters." The Crisis, September 1912. The Modernist Journals Project: Brown

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Life Story: Edith Maude Eaton

, national, and international publications. In addition to journalism, Edith also enjoyed fiction writing. The people she met while working as a reporter informed her short stories. While she published some work under the name Edith Maude Eaton, she also

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Black Life in the Urban North

in this era, see Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow. Source Notes Black Experiences. Classroom Application. Document. Great Migration. High School. Immigration, Migration, and Settlement. Jim Crow. Journalism. Middle School. Midwest

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Life Story: Ida B. Wells

and decided to turn to journalism full time. Three years later, she bought a share in the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight and was appointed its editor. She was the first female co-owner and editor of a Black newspaper in the US. She began writing

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Expanding Women’s Roles and Fighting Public Evils

through journalism. DOMESTICITY AND FAMILY; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE Source Notes Activism and Social Change. Classroom Application. Daily Life. Document. Domesticity and Family. Entertainment & Media. High School. Image. Middle School

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Waged Industrial Work

), who used journalism to shed light on the challenges of life in modern industrial America. Raising a family and working for wages was a balancing act many women faced. Examine these two images and then analyze Margaret Sanger’s clinic poster, which

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