Organized Labor and the New Deal
A page from a union scrapbook highlighting the involvement of women in Depression Era picket lines.
A page from a union scrapbook highlighting the involvement of women in Depression Era picket lines.
The story of a labor leader who led a major food-industry strike in her early 20s and was eventually ostracized for her political beliefs.
The story of the highest-ranking woman in the federal government who used her intellect and her network to enforce Prohibition and reform the prison system.
This letter from Mary Alexander illuminates women’s roles in the thriving trade of British New York.
The story of a Black woman who rose from plantation slave to plantation mistress in colonial Florida.
The story of a founding mother of St. Louis.
The story of a métis fur trader of the Great Lakes region.
These pages from the log book of the Sloop Rhode Island starkly demonstrate the treatment of enslaved people during the Middle Passage.
The indenture contract of nine-year-old Elizabeth Fortune reveals the opportunities available to young free black women in colonial New York.
Colonial women used spinning wheels like this one to create homespun thread that could be woven into fabric. In the lead-up to the American Revolution, spinning became an overtly political act, because it allowed women to avoid paying tax on imported British textiles and supported the general political protest against English policies.