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March 2003

 
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LEGEND:  (W) = Website Feature  (LP) = Lesson Plan (PA) = Picturing America (WTP) = We the People Bookshelf
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Who Were the Foremothers of Women’s Equality? (LP)

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1896 Ethiopian army defeats Italians at the Battle of Adwa
African Voices (W)

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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)

5

Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage (LP)

National Portrait Gallery:
Seneca Falls Convention July 19-20, 1848 (W)

6
1806 Born—British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian Web (W)

1857 Dred Scott decision of Supreme Court—Blacks could not be US citizens
Oyez, Oyez, Oyez (W)

7
Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 1965
"We Shall Overcome": Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)

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)

10
1913 Death of Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor who rescued more than 300 of her people from slavery
Spirituals (LP)

11

U.S. Women's History Workshop (W)

12
1993—Janet Reno becomes first woman US Attorney General
Women’s Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs (LP)

13
1907 Financial panic plunges stock market—economic depression begins
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs (LP)

14



Women of the West Museum (W)

Women’s Suffrage: Why the West First? (LP)

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American Memory:
Women Pioneers in American Memory—Suffrage (W)

18

Victorian Women Writers Project (W)

19



Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film (LP)

20
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, White abolitionist, publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (W)

21

Lire Les Femmes Écrivains et les Littératures Africaines (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)

1998—Indonesian President Suharto resigns. VP B.J. Habibie sworn in as president
AskAsia: Indonesia (W)

26
1874 Born—Robert Frost

Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP)

27
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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Picturing First Families (LP)

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1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution
Remember the Ladies (LP)