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Expanding Women’s Roles and Fighting Public Evils

in sex work against their will. vice: Wicked or immoral actions. What do the evils presented in this cartoon have in common? How do they represent moral questions that are a natural extension of women’s traditional responsibilities? How does

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Indigenous Education and Family Separation

. Female students were mostly taught domestic work: sewing, cleaning, cooking, ironing, and laundry. It was believed that female students would graduate, return home, and “elevate” their communities through an “American” approach to family life. The

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Life Story: Janet Randolph

had still not raised enough money to begin the work. In 1899, at Norman Randolph’s suggestion, the committee asked the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) to take over the fund-raising effort. The UDC had formed in 1894 as an association of

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Life Story: Maggie Walker

dedicated to doing good works for their members or to broader charitable activities. Nearly all had elaborate titles for their leaders (Maggie’s was Right Worthy Grand Secretary) and secret rituals that bound members together. Membership in these groups was

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Life Story: Ida B. Wells

died of yellow fever. The six remaining Wells children were orphaned, and Ida “suddenly found myself head of a family.” She went to work as a schoolteacher. She also continued her own studies, taught Sunday school, and did the family’s cooking, washing

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What is Feminism?

and women’s rights today. What are current debates around fashion, working mothers, last names, and other aspects of feminism? Although suffrage was not officially listed on the agenda, most feminists favored suffrage. Compare this advertisement to

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Black Suffragists

fully as she will when the question is less of an experiment, not as heartily as she will when her horizon broadens, but she bears her part. Wherever women have the vote, Black women are voting and working to make change. More Black women will vote as

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Arguments for and Against Suffrage

reason as a member of any committee where men and women are working together. In appointive positions, as members of educational, philanthropic and reformatory boards, which deal directly with the needs of the unfortunate of both sexes, individual women

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Together for Home and Family

opportunity to pursue life in the public sphere. In this new vision, women could go to college, work as teachers and librarians, join clubs and organizations . . . and vote. This progressive view did not necessarily contradict the traditional view of women

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Women Without a Country

tendencies—modified by later experience. With the ideas inherent in the woman movement I have always been imbued and have at times worked directly for the cause—even walked in the first parade of the women in New York. The author has fought for woman suffrage

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