Archive for '- Women’s Rights'
Suffrage and suffering at the 1913 March
Today’s blog post comes from Jessie Kratz, archives specialist in the Center for Legislative Archives. If you are participating in the 100th anniversary of the parade on Sunday, stop by the National Archives to see the document that finally gave women the right to vote. The 19th Amendment is on display from March 1 to [...]
Posted by Hilary on March 1, 2013, under - Women's Rights, Pennsylvania Avenue, Uncategorized.
Tags: 100th anniversary, 19th amendment, committee hearings, DC Police, guest post, march, parade, Pennsylvania Avenue, Senate, suffrage, voting, voting rights, washington, woman suffrage
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The 19th Amendment on display at the National Archives
The 19th Amendment is on display from March 1 to March 8 at the National Archives Building in honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1913 woman’s suffrage parade in Washington, DC. We will also be screening the 2004 film “Iron-Jawed Angels” at noon on March 2. Today’s guest post is from curator Bruce Bustard. [...]
Posted by Hilary on February 28, 2013, under - Civil Rights, - Women's Rights, Pennsylvania Avenue, Uncategorized.
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History Crush: Susan B. Anthony
Today’s History Crush guest post comes from the National Archives staff in New York City. Sara Lyons Pasquerello, education technician, and Angela Tudico, archives technician, don’t care about clichés! Their love for this suffragist will never falter—and might even expand! As we enter Women’s History Month, it is only fitting that we reveal our history crush—Susan [...]
Posted by Hilary on March 7, 2012, under - Women's Rights, History Crush.
Tags: civil disobedience, Congress, history crush, illegal voting, Quakers, suffrage, Susan B. Anthony
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A Matter of Simple Justice
Today’s guest post was written by Barbara Hackman Franklin, former White House staff member for the recruitment of women and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. The story of how Franklin and other women cracked the glass ceiling is finally told in a new book that draws from “A Few Good Women,” an oral history project [...]
Posted by Hilary on March 5, 2012, under - Civil Rights, - Revolutionary War, - Women's Rights.
Tags: "A Few Good women", 1971, Atomic Energy Commission, Barabara Hackman Franklin, Civil Service Commission, Dixy Lee Ray, Federal Maritime Commission, Helen Delich Bentley, Jayne Baker Spain, Marina Whitman, Memorandum for Cabinet Secretaries and Agency Heads, Newsweek, Nixon, Whitman, women
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Eleanor Roosevelt, what’s in your wallet?
Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884. She was the niece of former President Theodore Roosevelt, and later became the wife of future President Franklin D. Roosevelt (her fifth cousin). She is known for her role as First Lady during the Great Depression and World War II. She was the first woman in that [...]
Posted by Hilary on October 11, 2011, under - Great Depression, - Presidents, - Women's Rights, - World War I, - World War II, Unusual documents.
Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Theodore Roosevelt, wallet
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