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March 2006

 
Women's History Month
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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)

2

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

3

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

4
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)

7
Civil rights march, Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 1965
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)

8

Kate Chopin's The Awakening: No Choice but Under? (LP)

9
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)

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

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

14
American Memory:
Women Pioneers in American Memory—Suffrage (W)

15

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

16

Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia (LP)

17
1431—Last day of Joan of Arc's examination at her trial at Rouen, France.
Witnesses to Joan of Arc and The Hundred Years' War (LP)

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20
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, White abolitionist, publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (W)

21

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-paper”—The “New Woman” (LP)

22

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper”—Writing Women (LP)

23
1940 Born—Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change (LP)

24

Scribbling Women (W)

25
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 immigrant women workers
New Deal Network (W)

26
1874 Born—Robert Frost
Poems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost (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)

28

National First Ladies Library (W)

29

Victorian Women Writers Project (W)

30

U.S. Women's History Workshop (W)

31
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)