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Life Story: Emma Goldman

, 1940. anarchism: The political belief that government is unnecessary and that society would be better off if individuals took care of themselves and each other. assassinate: Murder. conscientious objection: Refusing to enroll in the military on

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Arguments for and Against Suffrage

, town, or local government. non-partisan: Neither supporting nor representing a political party. panacea: A solution that will cure all problems or symptoms. suffrage: The right of voting; in this era, suffrage often referred specifically to woman

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Life Story: Zitkala-Sa

to give up their entire culture in exchange for an education. She saw the staff treat children cruelly, and learned that the government paid the school for every child successfully removed from a reservation. She realized the schools were designed to

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Life Story: Jeannette Rankin

-war stance would likely end her political career, but she refused to sacrifice her integrity. She reminded critics that she ran on an anti-war platform and fulfilled her promise. Her colleagues and constituents shunned her, and she did little during the rest

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White Southern Activists and Anti-Suffrage

photograph in juxtaposition to the many Black suffragists within this unit, including Adella Hunt Logan, Fannie Barrier Williams, Ida B. Wells, and Mary Church Terrell. POWER AND POLITICS For more about Jim Crow racism and the Lost Cause mythology

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Black Suffragists

women have long ago been convinced, that their efforts would be more telling if women had the vote. More and more Black women want the vote. The fashion of saying “I do not care to meddle with politics” is disappearing among the colored woman faster

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The NAACP Fights to Protect Voters

administration of the laws by these State officials is a different matter. Mr. Pickens responds that there is no rule that prevents the federal government from using and enforcing common sense. If state laws violate the Constitution of the United States, Congress

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Women Without a Country

. However, as truly as a young man does, I went out to seek my own, coming to New York City the second year I was out of boarding school, with money earned by teaching in a district school. The American government recognizes men as full citizens and assumes

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Election Day 1920

political parties to recruit more women to vote. Nineteenth Amendment: The constitutional amendment that declared the right to vote could not be denied on the basis of sex; it was ratified in 1920. ratification: The process by which an amendment to

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Recruiting Women to the War Effort

the creation of a WWI propaganda poster and study how artists of the time used these elements to depict the wartime roles of women. POWER AND POLITICS; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE Source Notes Activism and Social Change. Art Activities. Classroom

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