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Frances Dana Barker Gage (pen name, Aunt Fanny; October 12, 1808 – November 10, 1884) was a leading American reformer, feminist and abolitionist. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton , along with other leaders of the early women's rights movement in the United States. [ 1 ]
Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist.She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought.
One of the premier collections on the World Wide Web for the teaching of U.S. history, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000, includes (as of March 2014) 110 document projects with almost 4,350 documents and more than 153,000 pages of additional full-text sources relating to U.S. women's history.
She was an American artist and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. [71] She aided the movement in many ways, she drew cartoons to be used as propaganda, she was the artist for a periodical titled, The Suffragist and she designed a commemorative pin for the women who had been imprisoned to further the movement. [72]
comprised four women – two of them represented the rights of migrant women workers in Asia; the third advocated for Nepali workers in the United States; and the fourth organized domestic workers in New York City. As the forum got underway, I was struck by the marked absence of a ‘voice’ for the Caribbean community which, by my
The mothers' movement was an anti-war women's movement in the United States, beginning in California in 1939, soon after the start of World War II.At its height, it consisted of 50 to 100 loosely-confederated groups, with a total membership that may have been as high as five or six million.
This category is for images related to the labor movement and trade unions in the United States. It includes images of strike actions , people, buildings, rallies, picketing , and cultural imagery (such as stills from films or book covers).
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