voters would fix political corruption.
Instead, Emma wanted women to turn their attention to issues beyond suffrage. She trained as a nurse and midwife. She was often arrested for promoting birth control publicly and breaking other decency laws of the
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denied most Chinese people in this era.
Edith wrote about the challenges Chinese immigrants faced in the United States and the ways in which the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and other laws shaped daily life. Edith went to great lengths to humanize her
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. Instead, they have created organizations and committees to address society’s problems.
They realize that public opinion must first create a demand for a law, and afterwards enforce it in order to make the law effective. In this task of moulding and
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segregation and discrimination was reestablishing white control. Known as Jim Crow, it was imposed by laws, customs, and threats that narrowed nearly every aspect of Black Americans’ lives.
In the face of Jim Crow, Black Americans had to figure out how to
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, she also fought for laws protecting child and adult workers with the National Consumers League.
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
In 1940, with America on the brink of another world war, Jeannette ran for the
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in California fought for the vote and are now voting.
The State of Washington, new with its votes-for-women law, has already had a colored woman juror. Why not? She is educated and wealthy and wants to protect the best interests in her State.
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An excerpt from Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces that explores the racism black soldiers and support staff faced while serving their country in France.
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A set of three letters between a mother and the federal government that exemplify the tremendous sacrifices Native American parents made in exchange for a formal education for their children.
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