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**Rural Black Woman as Deliverer: Margaret Murray Washington, Her Vision and Life's Work
written by Michelle Rief, fl. 2015 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2015), 16 page(s)
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written by Michelle Rief, fl. 2015 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2015), 16 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay, Reflections on Documents
Author / Creator
Michelle Rief, fl. 2015
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Margaret Murray Washington, 1865-1925, Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915
Topic / Theme
Suffragists, Schools, Associations and organizations, Biographies, Women and Education, Political and Human Rights, Access to Higher Education, Suffrage
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**Sarah Parker Remond, a Colored Lady Lecturer at Home and Abroad
written by Janice L. Sumler-Edmond, fl. 1999 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2014), 11 page(s)
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written by Janice L. Sumler-Edmond, fl. 1999 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2014), 11 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay, Reflections on Documents
Author / Creator
Janice L. Sumler-Edmond, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, Sarah Parker Remond, 1826-1894
Topic / Theme
Public speaking, Abolitionists, Speeches, Suffragists, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Abolition of Slavery, Suffrage, Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Civil War (1860–1865), Reconstruction (1866–1876), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Settler Society in North America: Women's National Indian Association, 1880-1940
written by Cathleen Cahill, fl. 2016 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 19 page(s)
In the post-Civil War United States the Women’s National Indian Association or WNIA was the largest women’s Indian reform association and a major force in shaping federal Indian policy. In existence from 1879 to 1951, the WNIA spanned an important era in women’s political activism. The organization changed s...
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written by Cathleen Cahill, fl. 2016 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 19 page(s)
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In the post-Civil War United States the Women’s National Indian Association or WNIA was the largest women’s Indian reform association and a major force in shaping federal Indian policy. In existence from 1879 to 1951, the WNIA spanned an important era in women’s political activism. The organization changed strategies several times over its lifetime and as such it offers an excellent window into the evolving opportunities for and strategies...
In the post-Civil War United States the Women’s National Indian Association or WNIA was the largest women’s Indian reform association and a major force in shaping federal Indian policy. In existence from 1879 to 1951, the WNIA spanned an important era in women’s political activism. The organization changed strategies several times over its lifetime and as such it offers an excellent window into the evolving opportunities for and strategies of women’s political participation. Those opportunities, however, were at their root based on the United States’ conquest of Native nations and its colonial power over them.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Cathleen Cahill, fl. 2016
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Amelia Stone Swanson Quinton, 1833-1926
Topic / Theme
Indigenous Women, Women and Religion, Social Reform and Political Activism, Relations with Imperial Women, Women Missionaries, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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**The Solidarity of Humanity: Anna Julia Cooper's Personal Encounters and Thinking about the Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Oppressi...
written by Sharon Harley, 1948- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2015), 20 page(s)
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written by Sharon Harley, 1948- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2015), 20 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay, Reflections on Documents
Author / Creator
Sharon Harley, 1948-
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Anna J. Cooper, 1858-1964
Topic / Theme
Suffragists, Educational opportunities, Race relations, Gender relations, Political and Human Rights, Suffrage
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The Springplace Mission: A Women’s Cultural Crossroads in Early-Nineteenth-Century Georgia
written by Rowena McClinton, 1940- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 19 page(s)
The narratives in the Moravian's Springplace Mission to the Cherokees were written by a German-speaking woman missionary, Anna Rosina Kliest Gambold (1762-1821), who had a profound penchant for details and was devoted to non-European cultures. Her purpose-driven life reflected the prevailing contemporary values o...
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written by Rowena McClinton, 1940- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 19 page(s)
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The narratives in the Moravian's Springplace Mission to the Cherokees were written by a German-speaking woman missionary, Anna Rosina Kliest Gambold (1762-1821), who had a profound penchant for details and was devoted to non-European cultures. Her purpose-driven life reflected the prevailing contemporary values of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Moravian Church: non-violence, humility, non-acquisitiveness, service, and tolerance. Th...
The narratives in the Moravian's Springplace Mission to the Cherokees were written by a German-speaking woman missionary, Anna Rosina Kliest Gambold (1762-1821), who had a profound penchant for details and was devoted to non-European cultures. Her purpose-driven life reflected the prevailing contemporary values of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Moravian Church: non-violence, humility, non-acquisitiveness, service, and tolerance. These two volumes, some 1,490 printed pages, contain her observations of Cherokee people and enslaved people of African descent, who came to Springplace from nearby Cherokee cotton-growing plantations. Unlike government records of the time, her eyewitness accounts are graphic and raw in detail and provocative in describing not only intimate Cherokee family relationships but also enslaved peoples' struggles to survive. No other primary material elucidates so intensely and clearly in this time period the interacting lives of Cherokees, African people in bondage, and white missionaries.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Rowena McClinton, 1940-
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Anna Rosina Gambold, 1762-1821
Topic / Theme
Indigenous Women, Women and Religion, Social and Political Leadership, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Women Missionaries, African Americans, Cherokee, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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**State Commissions and Economic Security for Women
written by Cynthia Harrison (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2009), 1 page(s)
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written by Cynthia Harrison (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2009), 1 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay, Reflections on Documents
Author / Creator
Cynthia Harrison
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Economic discrimination, Minimum wage, Associations and organizations, Women in workforce, Work and Class Identity, Rights to Wages, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Subtle Assertions in a Complicated Context: Filipino Women during the American Colonial Period
written by Frances Anthea Redison, Mary Barby Badayos-Jover, Adrianne Francisco and Febe Pamonag, fl. 2007 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 42 page(s)
The American colonial period had a profound impact on Filipino women’s activism, achievements, and status. Filipinas found increased educational opportunities, access to previously-closed professions, and a greater presence in the public sphere. However, these so-called opportunities were largely accessible only...
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written by Frances Anthea Redison, Mary Barby Badayos-Jover, Adrianne Francisco and Febe Pamonag, fl. 2007 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 42 page(s)
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The American colonial period had a profound impact on Filipino women’s activism, achievements, and status. Filipinas found increased educational opportunities, access to previously-closed professions, and a greater presence in the public sphere. However, these so-called opportunities were largely accessible only to those belonging to the elite class. Women during the decades of American rule were also caught between the conflicting aims of the...
The American colonial period had a profound impact on Filipino women’s activism, achievements, and status. Filipinas found increased educational opportunities, access to previously-closed professions, and a greater presence in the public sphere. However, these so-called opportunities were largely accessible only to those belonging to the elite class. Women during the decades of American rule were also caught between the conflicting aims of the American colonial state and the Filipino nationalist movements, which were male-dominated. Filipino women thus had to carefully navigate the socio-political context in order to define and eventually achieve what they were aiming for.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Frances Anthea Redison, Mary Barby Badayos-Jover, Adrianne Francisco, Febe Pamonag, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2016-12, 2016
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Maria Paz Mendoza-Guazon, 1884-, Encarnacion A. Alzona, 1895-2001, Paz Márquez-Benitez, 1894-1983
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Political and Human Rights, Work and Class Identity, Women and Education, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Suffrage, Women as “Bourgeoisie”, Access to Higher Education, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Filipinos, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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**Thinking Suffrage: Ida B. Wells-Barnett on Faith and Politics
written by Patricia A. Schechter, fl. 2002 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2014), 9 page(s)
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written by Patricia A. Schechter, fl. 2002 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2014), 9 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay, Reflections on Documents
Author / Creator
Patricia A. Schechter, fl. 2002
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931
Topic / Theme
Voting rights, Suffragists, Religious faiths, Newspapers, Lynching, Journalists, Women and Religion, Political and Human Rights, Religious Leadership and Religious Activism, Suffrage, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914), 20th Century in World Histor...
Voting rights, Suffragists, Religious faiths, Newspapers, Lynching, Journalists, Women and Religion, Political and Human Rights, Religious Leadership and Religious Activism, Suffrage, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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**"Under this name she is fitly described": A Digital History of Gender in the History of Woman Suffrage
written by Michelle Moravec, fl. 2021 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2015), 1 page(s)
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written by Michelle Moravec, fl. 2021 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2015), 1 page(s)
Collection
Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay, Reflections on Documents
Author / Creator
Michelle Moravec, fl. 2021
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Suffragism, Women's rights, Scientific research, Gender, Political and Human Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Suffrage
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U.S. Empire, 1820-2004: United States Women Shape Political Culture in the Panama Canal Zone, 1903-1975
written by Katherine Marino, 1981- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 29 page(s)
This document cluster explores the role that white U.S. women played in the Canal Zone, the unincorporated territory of the U.S. surrounding the Canal, from the beginning of construction in 1903 to the late 1930s. The primary sources shed light on women’s part in creating the “imperial borderland” around the...
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written by Katherine Marino, 1981- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 29 page(s)
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This document cluster explores the role that white U.S. women played in the Canal Zone, the unincorporated territory of the U.S. surrounding the Canal, from the beginning of construction in 1903 to the late 1930s. The primary sources shed light on women’s part in creating the “imperial borderland” around the Panama Canal, one of the most important overseas possessions of the United States, through their roles as homemakers, nurses, and teac...
This document cluster explores the role that white U.S. women played in the Canal Zone, the unincorporated territory of the U.S. surrounding the Canal, from the beginning of construction in 1903 to the late 1930s. The primary sources shed light on women’s part in creating the “imperial borderland” around the Panama Canal, one of the most important overseas possessions of the United States, through their roles as homemakers, nurses, and teachers, and through their women’s organizations. These women shaped the political culture of the Zone by promoting U.S. middle-class domestic ideals. Yet their objectives did not always comply with U.S. political objectives; they also pushed for rights for themselves as workers, women, and widows, making other demands on the state.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Katherine Marino, 1981-
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Alexander Street
Topic / Theme
Construction of the Panama Canal, 1881 to 1915, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women of Color, Empire and Feminism, Empire and Family Life, Race Discrimination, Support for Imperialism, Caribbean and West Indians, Panamanians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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