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US Women Fighting for Equality - Paulina W Davis' Address 1850 Women's Rights...
.Paulina W DavisThis leaves me at liberty to occupy your attention for a few moments with some general reflections upon the attitude and relations of our movement to our times and circumstances, and...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Women's Rights Convention 1848 Seneca Falls,...
Report of the Woman's Rights Convention 1848A Convention to discuss the SOCIAL, CIVIL, AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF WOMAN, was called by the Women of Seneca County, N.Y., and held at the village of...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Jane Clothier Master Hunt 1812-1889
Jane Clothier Master Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 1812, the daughter of William and Mary Master. Her marriage to Richard Pell Hunt in November 1845 brought her to Waterloo...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) is believed to be the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, and for the next fifty years played a leadership role in the women's rights movement. Somewhat...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - A few words from Sarah Grimke 1792-1873 &...
Wood cut of Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) date of image is unknown. Library of CongressTwo early and prominent activists for abolition and women’s rights, Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimke Weld...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Martha Coffin Wright 1806-1875
Martha Coffin Wright (1806-75) was the youngest of 8 children; her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott was the second oldest. Throughout her life Martha worked in reform alongside her sister Lucretia Mott....
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 - Solitude...
Solitude of SelfAddress Delivered by Mrs. Stanton before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress, Monday, January 18, 1892 Reprinted from the Congressional RecordElizabeth Cady...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Mary Ann M’Clintock 1800-1884
Mary Ann M’Clintock (1800-1884) was born to Quaker parents. She married Thomas M’Clintock, a druggist and fellow Quaker, in 1820, and they lived in Philadelphia for seventeen years. During that time...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793-1880
One of 8 children born to Quaker parents on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) dedicated her life to the goal of human equality. As a child Mott attended Nine...
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America depicted as a Woman - The earliest Lady Liberties
Early depictions of America as a woman appeared before the Revolutionary War.Allegory of America - Theodor Galle (Flemish engraver, 1571-1633) after Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605) plate 2 from Nova...
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Lady Liberty in 18C America
For the first 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Indpendence on the 4th of July, American women would present their appreciation of the nation's hard-won liberty as handiwork in the form...
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Lady Liberty in 19C America
In the 19th century, as the country grew and faced new challenges, Lady Liberty changed to reflect the times. Lady Liberty with an eagle holding a liberty cap and resting on a shield. Lady Liberty...
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American Journalist Nellie Bly 1864-1922
.Nellie Bly 1864-1922Born in Cochran's Mills, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, she began her work as a journalist at the Pittsburg Dispatch. Nellie Bly focused her...
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19 & 20C Women confront those new propeller aircraft
Those Magnificent Women in Their Flying MachinesMarch, 2017 by Wendi Maloney Library of Congress BlogThis is a guest post by Henry Carter, digital conversion specialist in the Serial and Government...
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1801 41-year-old Virginia Woman
1801 Jacob Frymire (c 1770-1822). Amelia Heiskell Lauck (1760-1842) of WinchesterJacob Frymire (c 1770-1821), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, worked as an itinerant artist in Virginia and Kentucky...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - 1917 1st Woman in Congress
Women’s History Month: First Woman Sworn into Congress March 31, 2017 - Wendi Maloney Library of Congress BlogJeannette Rankin, 1917One hundred years ago this Sunday—on April 2, 1917—Jeannette Rankin...
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Researching US Women Fighting for Equality
Library of Congress Collection - Documents Hard-Won VictoryMarch 16, 2017 by Wendi Maloney Library of Congress Blog(The following is a guest post by Elizabeth Gettins, Library of Congress digital...
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Freed but recaptured, Slave Hannah Richards escaped to Freedom
The Legacy of US Slave Hannah RichardsMarch 8, 2017 by Wendi Maloney on the Library of Congress Blog(The following guest post was written by Beverly W. Brannan, curator of photography in the Prints and...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches,...
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Early African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Do coloured people...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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