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Declaration of Indpencedence
The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. It was adopted on July 4, 1776 by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia. -
Why sit here and die
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. -
Lucretia Mott
Taking up the cause of women's rights, she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a convention at Seneca Falls, New York, the first of its kind, “to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women.” The convention issued a “Declaration of Sentiments” modeled on the Declaration of Independence. -
Ain't I women
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. -
Excerpt from "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases"
Grizzard, who had only been charged with rape upon a white woman, had been taken from the jail, with Governor Buchanan and the police and militia standing by, dragged through the streets in broad daylight, knives plunged into him at every step, and with every fiendish cruelty a frenzied mob could devise, he was at last. -
A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
Color of law. -
Susan B Anthony
An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
believed that women were entitled to equal rights. But she also believed that women's differences from men made them uniquely qualified to engage in political activism. As she put it in her 1933 call to action, It's Up to the Women, “Women are different from men. -
The Zoot Suit Riots and Wartime Los Angeles
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place from June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. -
Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of using critical race theory as a lens to further explore and examine the Tulsa massacre. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues. -
Rainbow Coalition
The Rainbow Coalition was an antiracist, anticlass multicultural movement founded April 4, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots Organization and José Cha Cha Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords. -
Test... before the senate
Ironclad Test Oath. -
Women Rights overview
Movements for the equal rights of women in the United States have been shaped in response to a system of patriarchal social norms and laws that formed the basis of US cultural, political, and economic life. Patriarchy refers to a society in which fathers hold legal authority over dependent women and children or, more broadly, to a society in which a disproportionately large share of power is held by men. -
How Weinstein is by Markstein
Numerous women accusing Weinstein of rape and sexual assault have testified about his genitalia during the lengthy trial. In October, the jury was shown photos of Weinstein's private parts, and sifted through an envelope of images in a private room in the courthouse. -
Reconstruction: Crash Course Black American History (youtube)
At the end of the Civil War, the United States was still a very divided place. 700,000 people had died in a bitter fight over slavery. Reconstruction was the political process meant to bring the country back together. It was also the mechanism by which the country would extend the rights of citizenship to Black Americans, particularly those who had been recently emancipated. Today we'll learn about the Reconstruction amendments, the Freedman's Bureau, and the election of 1876 among other things -
Barbie
Women's empowerment.