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Women, Education, Sports, and Title IX
How has Title IX impacted women in education and sports over the last 5 decades?
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Biography
Ophelia Settle Egypt
Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC.
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Biography
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon is a renowned composer, historian, musician, and activist.
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Biography
Loretta Ross
Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice.
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Biography
Mary Treadwell
Mary Treadwell was a notable DC-based activist and community organizer. Treadwell is most noted for co-creating Youth Pride, Inc., a job-training program that assisted inner-city youth. She also advocated for the decriminalization of abortion.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
This is a short thirty-minute lesson on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
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Janet Yellen: The Progress of Women and Minorities in the Field of Economics
The students will discuss diversity within the economics profession and in the federal government, and the functions of the Federal Reserve System and U. S. monetary policy, by reviewing a historic timeline and analyzing the acts of Janet Yellen.
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Biography
Zitkála-Šá ("Red Bird"/Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
Zitkála-Šá (“Red Bird”), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Native American musician, writer and activist who fought for women's suffrage and Indigenous voting rights in the early 20th century.
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Biography
Asieh Amini
Journalist and poet Asieh Amini is a leading voice in the campaign to end stoning and juvenile executions in Iran.
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Biography
Liya Kebede
Harnessing her fame as a supermodel, and drawing on her experiences as a child in Ethiopia and as a mother in the United States, Liya Kebede has become a leading advocate for maternal, newborn, and child health around the world.
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Biography
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Famously referred to as “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time,” author, activist, and lecturer Matilda Joslyn Gage worked tirelessly to advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and Native American rights.
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Biography
Nanfu Wang
A 2020 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant winner, Nanfu Wang uses film to explore the relationship between individuals and governments.
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Biography
Elsie Robinson
Elsie Robinson was a journalist, fiction writer and poet. She was best known for her nationally syndicated column, Listen, World! which was read by more than 20 million Americans between 1921-1956.
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Biography
Sarah B. Cochran
Once called America's only Coal Queen, Sarah B. Cochran was a coal industry leader and philanthropist in an era when American women could not universally vote or serve on juries.
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Biography
Elizabeth Packard
After defending her sanity at trial in 1864, Packard campaigned to ensure the rights of the mentally ill as well as those of married women.
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Angela Davis, Feminist Solidarity
Students will explore Angela Davis’ call for intersectionality and a feminist solidarity for the 21st century.
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How do we remember and honor the contributions of women in public space?
The objective of this lesson is to help students thinking critically about public history and the decision-making that goes into designing and advocating for public memorials to commemorate women in American history.
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Ida B. Wells: Suffragist and Anti-Lynching Activist
This mini lesson will introduce students to Ida B. Wells through a primary source and invite students to explore the geography of American lynchings through an interactive map.
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Real Life Rosie the Riveters
This lesson features a series of student-centered grouping strategies and discussion forums that utilize primary and secondary sources accounts regarding real-life ‘Rosie the Riveters’ and their contributions to America’s victory in the Second World War.
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