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Florence Kelley

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Suffragist, political activist, governmental regulation proponent, NAACP, NCL, women and laborer’s rights

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National Child Labor Committee

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Founded 1904 to promote child labor rights, lewis hine= photographer who worked to show the negative aspects, college educated women worked as social progressives

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International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)

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one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female working-women membership, immigrants, eastern European Jews, organized massive strike, 1909-1910

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Bohemians

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Artists, writers, live in Greenwich Village, pro-femenism, New Women

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New Women

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Have more choices, working class womanhood, active in socialism, xenism, labor activism, female emancipation

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Mabel dodge

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wealthy American patron of the arts, bisexual, NYC “salon”, Armory Show founder and supporter, revolutionized women’s roles, feminism

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Feminism

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Changes in the public sphere: the new women, but also in the public sphere; economic independence (WTUL), sexual freedom (birth control), psychological freedom (marriage and family life) ; sameness/equality vs. difference

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International Council of Women

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Emphasizes family, golden rule, “female things”; Francis Willard is amer. Pres; focus on non-controversial issues (not suffrage

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International Woman Suffrage Association

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Established in 1904 by Carrie Capman Catt (pres of NAWSA) ; explicitly support feminism, say women are equal to men, WWI puts the group on hold

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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Forms IWSA, suffragist, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founded League of Women voters in 1920

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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

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Formed 1915, Pacifists, international group of women against WWI, say women are pacifists b/c they best understand the value of human life, are committed to providing all w/ the best quality of life, want to resolve conflicts without severing relationships, Golden Rule, adamant about the importance about an international group, like League of Nations, push for its creation at Treaty of Versailles.

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Emma Goldman

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an anarchist known for her political activism, writing; free-thinking "rebel woman" , advocate of politically-motivated murder and violent revolution

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Harriet Stanton Blanch

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Suffragist, WTUL member, led the 1910 New York suffrage parade, fought for ERA amendment

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Marion Martin

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Wants GOP women to join the party lines, head of Women’s division of the GOP in 1920’s, wanted reform, cohesive nationwide mobilization.

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Republican Women of PA

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Challenged the GOP, Marion Martin; anti-ERA, civil rights and pro-isolationism,

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Lochner v. New York

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1905 Ruled against limitations on labor, arguing for the individual’s right to rent their labor, led to employers forcing their laborers, often women, to work a lot, less labor regulation

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Muller v. Oregon

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1908 The case upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health

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Brandeis Brief

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1908 Provided social authorities with information on the health impacts of long working hours on women, supported women’s protection laws in Oregon, which was upheld

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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African-American woman and educator, FDR appointed her to his Black cabinet special adviser on minority affairs

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Gender in Great Depression

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Crisis in masculinity b/c of unemployment, Differences in experiencing depression: women at home didn’t have much of a change, government lays off all married women, it’s easier for a white woman to get a job than white men, changes in family life: birth rate falls, alcoholism increases (male thing), increased desertion of men from families, fewer marriages

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WCTU

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1873, Frances Willard, stop selling alcohol, no suffrage mentioned, women get political skills

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True Womanhood to Moral Authority

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“true womanhood”= purity, submissiveness, piety and domesticity; moral authority organizations twist it to their own purposes, remove submissiveness, expand domesticity to societ, examples: WCTU

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"Do Everything"

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WCTU’s platform to expand their social work beyond temperance, educate and take care of women: day cares, kindergarden, female matron for women prisoners, halfway homes, 1880’s

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Bertha Palmer

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Head of board of lady managers at World Fair in Chicago in 1893; meant to be largely honorary, but she used her influence to fight for “separatism” of men and women didn’t farther suffrage cause

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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African American and women’s rights activist known for her anti-lynching work in 1890’s, co-editor of Free Speech, an anti-segregationist newspaper

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national Ass. of Colored Women

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Founded 1896 formed in response to the exlusion of black women from the World’s fair, Ida B Wells = leader

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Mary Louise Smith

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first women head of RNC (republican women's convention), considers herself a feminist

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Women's Strike for Peace

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Cold War -- protest against nuclear weapons testing

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CORE Congress of Racial Equality

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sought to apply the principles of nonviolence as a tactic against segregation. Freedom Ride 1961 (black and whites white buses throughout south) beaten and bombed by white mobs, Freedom summer to register southern whites to vote, helped form Miss Freedom Dem Party

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SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Con.

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1958-57 born out of the bus boycott, nonviolent civil disobedience combined with education, first pres = MLK, jr. march on Washington

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SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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sit ins, freedom rides, MFDP, Freedom Summer, worked w/ SCLC, Ella Baker 1960

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COFO Council of Federated Organizations

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formed to coordinate and unite voter registration and other civil rights activities in Mississippi, A coalition of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations operating in Mississippi, NAACP, SNCC, CORE, SCLC

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Ella Baker

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civil rights activist who worked with and led NAACP, SCLC, SNCC

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New Right

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conservative group, grassroots movement to put Barry Goldwater as pres.; failed, but later support Ronald Reagan, opposed to non-interventionism of old right, 1964

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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president of National Ass. Colored Women in 1924, founded National Council of Negro women in 1935, in FDR's black cabinet,

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NOW National Organization of Women

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1966, founder and president Friedman, worked to support the ERA in the 1970's,

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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tasked with ending employment discrimination in the United States, part of Civil Rights Act of 1964,