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Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South is the first book by American author, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper. First published in 1892, the book is widely viewed as one of the first articulations of Black feminism. [1] The book is divided into two parts, "Soprano Obligato" and "Tutti Ad Libitum".
The second of these essays (De la nature de l'air) contains the statement of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely as the pressure. [10] [11] It was made from the discovery by Robert Boyle in 1662; Mariotte said Boyle's theory was right only when the temperature is constant. However, outside France it is best known as Boyle's law. [12]
Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916) was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist.. From her college days at Vassar College, she campaigned aggressively for women’s rights as the principal issue of a wide-ranging socialist agenda.
This amendment to the law gave women in the workforce additional rights, recognizing the importance of their work. The law saw single women being entitled to a salary similar to that of her male peers working in the same job. The law had one problem though in that married women still required permission from their husbands to accept a job. [171 ...
He goes on to say he thinks 99% of abortions are for those reasons, not because they are poor. He talks about growing up in poverty and how his mother did not choose abortion.
One 30-second ad, titled “Listen,” features Robinson, who has been an outspoken critic of abortion rights, talking on a Facebook Live stream in 2019 and railing against the procedure, the ...
Sarah-Lindsay Patton "Pattie" Boyle (May 9, 1906 – February 20, 1994) was an American author and civil rights activist from Virginia during the Civil Rights Movement.She is the author of The Desegregated Heart and various articles and books about race relations in Virginia and the South. [1]