Life Story: Ellen Swallow Richards
The story of a brilliant and prolific MIT-trained chemist who fought for healthier homes and communities through the home economics movement.
The story of a brilliant and prolific MIT-trained chemist who fought for healthier homes and communities through the home economics movement.
The story of the college educated founder of Hull House, who went on to inspire a generation of social reformers and peace activists.
The story of America’s first self-made Black female millionaire and how she built a beauty empire that celebrated and empowered Black women.
An article from the "Chicago Defender" that describes the new opportunities and challenges northern cities offered women looking to escape the horrors of the Jim Crow South.
An excerpt from the NAACP’s testimony before Congress that includes the challenges Black women faced as they attempted to exercise their Constitutionally-granted right to vote.
The front page of the "The West Virginian" newspaper on Election Day 1920, the first national election after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
A pair of documents that present competing arguments for and against women gaining the right to vote.
The United States Supreme Court opinion in "Muller v. Oregon" that outlines one rationale behind laws designed to protect women in the workplace and demonstrates the often sexist and short-sighted nature of social reforms.
A newspaper article that challenges the unfair federal policy that tied a woman’s citizenship to that of her husband and offers an example of how one native born American woman was a victim of the system.
A photograph taken as the Tennessee state legislature debated ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. It aligns the anti-suffragist campaign with the preservation of the Old South.