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Picture Brides and Japanese Immigration

on Asian immigration and Angel Island, see Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. Source Notes Asian American Experiences. Classroom Application. High School. Image. Immigration, Migration, and Settlement. Legal Status. Middle School. Modernizing

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Together for Home and Family

Life. Document. Domesticity and Family. Elementary School. High School. Legal Status. Middle School. Modernizing America, 1889−1920. Northeast. Region. Resource Type. Social Reform. Suffrage. Themes. Topics. Units. Voting. 1915. 1916. 1917

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Life Story: Zitkala-Sa

Act in 1924 and the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The laws helped Indigenous people secure American citizenship and regain control of their lives from the federal government. Zitkala-Sa died in Washington, D.C., on January 26, 1938. Throughout

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Waged Work and Protective Laws

. In the decades that followed, the opinion was an important piece of legal text. During the New Deal of the 1930s, it inspired important protection laws for men, women, and children. But it also justified treating women as second-class citizens who

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The NAACP Fights to Protect Voters

registration. This denial was made not only in violation of the general laws of the United States, but in violation of the laws of South Carolina; Mr. Pickens witnessed Black women facing discrimination when trying to vote. Many were denied the right to

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Fighting for Healthy Women and Families

, New York University, The Margaret Sanger Papers Project. PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0iY29udGVudC1kaXZpZGVyIj48L2Rpdj4=In the early twentieth century, birth control was a controversial issue. Federal obscenity laws made it illegal to share or sell birth control

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Women Without a Country

enemy”? What does this term mean, and why would it apply to her? PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0iY29udGVudC1kaXZpZGVyIj48L2Rpdj4= Connect this document to William Blackstone's explanation of coverture, a common law practice where women fell under the legal and

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Election Day 1920

. Image. Legal Status. Middle School. Modernizing America, 1889−1920. Power and Politics. Region. Resource Type. South. Suffrage. Themes. Topics. Units. Voting. 1920. 1921

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Life Story: Mary Church Terrell

District of Columbia Anti-Discrimination Laws. (CCEAD). The Anti-Discrimination Laws were a series of laws passed in the 1870s meant to end discrimination against Black citizens in Washington, D.C. The laws, however, had never been properly enforced. Under

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Waged Industrial Work

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.

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