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1917 Peace activist & suffragist Jeanette Rankin first woman elected to US House of Representatives
Women & Social Movement in US 1775-1940 (W)
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1806 Born—British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian Web (W)
1857 Dred Scott decision, U.S. Supreme Court
Oyez, Oyez, Oyez (W)
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Civil rights march, Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 1965
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)
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1854 Born—Hallie Quinn Brown, women's right activist
Cultural Change (LP)
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1913 Death of Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor who rescued more than 300 of her people from slavery
Spirituals (LP)
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1993—Janet Reno becomes first woman US Attorney General
Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP)
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1907 Stock market plunges—economic depression begins
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)
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American Memory:
Women Pioneers in American Memory—Suffrage (W)
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1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, White abolitionist, publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (W)
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1940 Born—Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change (LP)
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1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 immigrant women workers
New Deal Network (W)
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1874 Born—Robert Frost
Poems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost (LP)
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1912 First Lady Helen Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant first cherry trees in Washington, DC
Women in the White House (LP)
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1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women in the US Constitution
Remember the Ladies (LP)
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