Congress, Washington, D.C.
Jeannette Rankin Brigade Protesting Vietnam War
Bettmann, Jeannette Rankin Brigade Protesting Vietnam War, 1968. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Jeannette Rankin was born on June 11, 1880 outside of Missoula, Montana
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Recruiting Women to the War Effort
Service: Fall In!
National League for Women’s Service, Service: Fall In, c. 1917–1918. Collection of the New
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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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United States entered World War I, Black women responded with patriotism. Although many were frustrated with racial inequality nationally, they hoped that contributing to the war effort would improve the state of Black life in America. Through paid and
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when South Carolina fired on Fort Sumter and the Civil War began. Over the next four years, she saw the conflict come painfully close. Her beloved father joined the Confederate Army and died of typhoid fever. Her mother traveled to Pennsylvania to ask
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War Museum, Richmond, VA.
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A monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia—once the Confederacy’s capital city—in June 1907. Along with other Confederate
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their headquarters. The symbolism in this image ties anti-suffrage to the supposed honor and glory of the Old South. The women stand on either side of an elderly Civil War veteran. Nina holds a Confederate flag. Along the flagpole is a banner honoring
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-Conscription League and attracted thousands of people to her many anti-war protest meetings during World War I. In June 1917, she and Alexander were arrested and charged with conspiracy against the draft. They were each sentenced to two years in prison.
Emma was
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as men in all things. During World War I, she traveled to Europe as the first woman to report from the trenches on the front line.
Although Elizabeth never regained the level of stardom she experienced after her trip around the world, she continued
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believed in American ideals, and becoming a citizen didn’t seem very urgent.
Later on he took out first papers, “as a present” to me; but before the necessary two years had passed for ratifying them the matter of the war placed them on the table.
He had
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