Life Story: Matilda Hughes
The life story of a woman who survived slavery and built a new life in Reconstruction.
The life story of a woman who survived slavery and built a new life in Reconstruction.
Article about a charitable enterprise that supported middle class Civil War widows.
A newspaper account of Confederate women smuggling goods out of the Union.
A newspaper article that illustrates how Black workers were the targets of racist campaigns led by white supremacists in the Reconstruction Era.
This collection of sources illustrates the backbreaking nature of laundry work, one of the few professional opportunities open to Black women in the Reconstruction Era.
The life story of a Confederate woman who lost everything and turned to white supremacy.
Black laundry workers in Jackson, Mississippi demand living wages in 1866.
The story of a woman who purchased her own freedom and became the dressmaker of the First Lady.
Sources that illustrate the lives of women in the plantation system.
The United States Supreme Court opinion in Goesaert v. Cleary that favored laws protecting women from morally corrupt work environments.