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  1. The Beverly Beacon: Rise of Women's Voice in Media Publications
    date November 1, 1913map Essex, Massachusettstags Women, Politics, women's rights, Media

         In New England at the turn of the twentieth century women took pen to paper to address the struggles among women in the fight for equality. The Beverly Beacon was the first all women published newspaper. Emerging in the early 1900s, it expressed women's opinions about social, economic, and political aspects of life in the rural New England town of Beverly Massachusetts. The women writers of...

  2. Boston Suffragists Celebrate Their Efforts
    date September 22, 1920map Suffolk, Massachusettstags Women, suffrage, Laws

    On September 22, 1920, the women of Boston took to the streets for a “victory parade” to celebrate the “happy ending to a ‘long fight and a good fight’.” Four hundred strong, they wore dark clothing and hats; with the exception of 37 women, who were dressed in white clothing, wore blue streamers and carried the name of each state that had passed the Suffrage Amendment. Seven automobiles...

  3. Women Entering the Business Sphere: Analyzes The Washington Post article, "Women in Business" in comparison to Shelley's, Learning to Stand and Speak.
    date 1880 to 1881map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Careers, Business, Washington Post, Education, House, women's rights, Women

    In the late 18th to early 19th century, women began to explore their intellectual talents outside of the education field. The Washington Post (1877-1954) published an article titled Women in Business, expressing the purpose of the exhibit mounted by the League of Business and Professional Women. The goal was to help others, specifically women, appreciate their business skills and embark in professional...

  4. Birth Control
    date August 18, 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags birth control, Cold War, Women

    In the Fayetteville Observer on Sunday August 18, 1968, the paper noted that a Russian man came up to a Westerner and asked him for some birth control pills for his wife.  Normally, a man would ask for whisky or chewing gum, but this time it was different, and the request took the Westerner by surprise.  The reason he asked for birth control pills was because there was a housing shortage in Russia...

  5. Modesty versus Fashion: Nineteenth Century American Women’s Dress
    date 1836map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Women, fashion, clothing, dress, virtue, good wife

    In an 1836 lifestyle manual for women, entitled The Young Lady’s Friend, John Farrar outlined the expectations for an American Christian women’s behavior in a particular chapter entitled Dress a Test of Character. In this chapter he discussed the appropriateness and significance of a nineteenth century women’s dress in relation to how she was viewed by society. According to Farrar, “Christian...

  6. The Republic Woman and the public sphere in the early 1800s.
    date March 2, 1822map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Women, women's rights

    Susan Thoughtful wrote to the editor of The Euterpeiad on March 2, 1822 to ask a few simple questions about the position of men and women in the republic society. She wondered how women were considered for government positions and how it affected the ideals of marriage. Thoughful questioned for example, a woman named Elizabeth Bartlett. Since she ran for office for the Register of Deeds, Bartlett created...

  7. Funeral Services held for Rose O’Neal Greenhow
    date October 1, 1864map NEW HANOVER, North Carolinatags Death, Espionage, Women

         Funeral proceedings were held on October 1, 1864 to lay to rest noted Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Greenhow worked in an elaborate spy network that encompassed Washington D.C. and the surrounding areas. Greenhow became one of the standouts in the spy-ring, supplying vital information to the Rebel forces at critical points during the start of the Civil War. Her greatest achievement...

  8. Sexist Laws: Are Prostituion Laws Sexist?
    date August 30, 1974map Jefferson, Alabamatags Seventies, Birmingham, Alabama, Women, prostitution laws

    In 1974, the city of Birmingham, Alabama prostitution ordinance survived the first challenge in court. A federal judge denied a request from a Foxy Entertainment employee who called the ordinance unconstitutional. A woman, Lynn Floyd, is appealing her prostitution conviction. Floyd’s suit says that the ordinance is unconstitutional because it seems to only apply to women. Linda LeMoncheck found in...

  9. Advancements In the Women's Rights Movement
    date October 29, 1951map Worcester, Massachusettstags Women, Women's Rights, suffrage

    Over one thousand women gathered in Worchester, Massachusetts, for a Women's Rights Convention in October 1851. "Wit, humor, truth, poetry, absurdity, and misdemeanor madness, were all component parts of the proceedings and speeches," wrote a journalist for the Daily Alabama Journal. Among the speakers were E. Oakes Smith, Abby Kelly Foster, and Lucretia Mott. The journalist observed that some of the...

  10. The March for Freedom
    date March 3, 1913map Frederick, Virginiatags Women, Women's Rights

    The day was March 3, 1913 in Washington D.C., many women at the time have wanted equal rights, that they were not receiving, so many important women icons decided to act upon their beliefs. The women gathered 5,000 supporters, such as Mrs. Taft. She and other supporters walked down Pennsylvania Avenue in hopes of rallying the crowd and getting as many supporters as possible. The women used decorated...

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