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A name given to the resource
Reform (Social or Labor)
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An account of the resource
The reform collection highlights those women who dared to influence labor changes to expand worker control over their conditions or who dared to reform society in a positive manner. In the United States, women have historically been major contributors to the great reform movements. Although their work is not given as much credit as those of their male counterparts, it was women who did much of the grassroots campaigning for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, labor legislation, prison reform, social welfare programs, asylum reform, religious freedom, peace programs, and universal education. This collection then highlights the work of some of those activists and encourages us to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1939
Death Date
1945
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War workers
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Geraldine Hoff Doyle is the real life model for the famous World War II woman-worker recruitment poster titled “We Can Do It!” A photographer from the United Press snapped a photo of Doyle wearing the iconic polka-dotted bandana made famous on the poster depicting a woman flexing her muscle. Doyle didn’t know until 1984 that it was she who inspired the print and the name “Rosie the Riveter”. "Rosie" symbolizes the many women who entered the workforce in World War II to help the Allied forces win the war. Although denied equal pay and discriminated against, American women fought the war from the plants, many of them choosing to stay in paid employment after the war.
Bibliography
<p>Anderson, Karen. <em>Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II.</em> (New York: Berkley Books, 2001).</p>
<p>Wise, Nancy Baker and Christy Wise. <em>A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II.</em> (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994).</p>
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Rosie the Riveter
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Working women during WWII
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Amy French
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An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1898
Birthplace
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Death Date
1987
Occupation
Educator and Civil Rights Activist
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Septima Clark was an educator and civil rights activist who developed literacy and citizenship workshops that were crucial to the campaign for voting rights for African Americans in the south during the 1960s. Clark grew up a strictly segregated society which shaped her outlook on social justice. Because she was African American, her elementary education was not at the same level as white children. A high school opened in 1914 so that she could graduate and take a state examination to start teaching. As an African American, she was barred from teaching in the Charleston public schools, but she could teach on the Sea Islands. Gross disparities represented white and black education. She became politically involved in 1919 when she started actively attending NAACP meetings. She settled in Columbia, South Carolina where she taught at the Booker T. Washington High School. Clark is still remembered as an outstanding educator. She taught there for eighteen years and became more involved in civil rights activism. Clark went on to study with W.E.B. DuBois and earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees. She was an influential figure in the long Civil Rights Movement and one that is too often forgotten.
Bibliography
<p>McFadden, Grace Jordan. "Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights." <em>Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers 1941-1965.</em> Ed. Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993): pp. 85–97.</p>
<p>Oral History Interviews with Septima Clark from "Documenting the American South"</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu.html">http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu.html</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0016/menu.html">http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0016/menu.html</a></p>
<p>University of South Carolina, Septima Clark: <a href="http://www.usca.edu/aasc/clark.htm">http://www.usca.edu/aasc/clark.htm</a></p>
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Septima Clark
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Education and civil rights
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An account of the resource
Educator and civil rights activist who developed literacy and citizenship workshops
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Amy French
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An account of the resource
The reform collection highlights those women who dared to influence labor changes to expand worker control over their conditions or who dared to reform society in a positive manner. In the United States, women have historically been major contributors to the great reform movements. Although their work is not given as much credit as those of their male counterparts, it was women who did much of the grassroots campaigning for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, labor legislation, prison reform, social welfare programs, asylum reform, religious freedom, peace programs, and universal education. This collection then highlights the work of some of those activists and encourages us to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.
Person
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Birth Date
1876
Birthplace
Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA
Death Date
1938
Occupation
Writer
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Zitkala-sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin also known as Red Bird) was a Native American writer and teacher most famous for her work in the preservation of Native American culture. Born on a reservation, Zitkala-sa was sent to a boarding school as part of an American movement to force assimilation on the Native population. After graduation, she attend college and became a prolific writer. Her writings were widely circulated in the early 1900s, appearing in the Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s Monthly. Among her most famous pieces, <em>Why I am Pagan</em>, spoke of the pressure on Native Americans to conform to Christianity. A political activist, she also exposed major American corporations which defrauded Native Americans by using robbery and even murder to gain control of their oil-rich land. The work paved the path for the government to pass the Indian Reorganization Act of 1924.
Bibliography
<p>Capaldi, Gina. <em>Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist</em>. (Millbrook Press, 2011).</p>
<p>Fisher, Dexter. "Zitkala Sa: The Evolution of a Writer." <em>American Indian Quarterly</em>, vol. 5, no. 3 (August 1979), pp. 229–238.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr/19cUSWW/ZS/WIAP.html">Zitkala-sa, <em>Why I Am A Pagan</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/z#a188">Other writings by Zitkala-sa, Gutenberg Press</a></p>
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Zitkala-sa
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American Indian rights
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An account of the resource
Prolific writer and activist for the preservation of Native-American culture
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Amy French
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The reform collection highlights those women who dared to influence labor changes to expand worker control over their conditions or who dared to reform society in a positive manner. In the United States, women have historically been major contributors to the great reform movements. Although their work is not given as much credit as those of their male counterparts, it was women who did much of the grassroots campaigning for universal suffrage, abolition of slavery, labor legislation, prison reform, social welfare programs, asylum reform, religious freedom, peace programs, and universal education. This collection then highlights the work of some of those activists and encourages us to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.
Person
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
1895
Birthplace
Hunan province, China
Death Date
1928
Occupation
Political leader
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One of the first women to be a party of The Communist Party of China, she served as the Minister of Women’s Affairs. Jingyu is widely regarded as a pioneer of the women's movement in China. She wrote articles about problems that Chinese women faced and called for women to unite and fight for social, political, and economic rights. She worked to initiate public schools for girls and to organize working women. She founded the China Women's Federation, which gave Chinese women the start for a nation-wide movement. Jingyu was active in trying to secure workers rights and organized ten thousand female workers from silk factories to strike in 1924. She continued her activity amongst growing political turmoil. In 1927, Chiang Kai-Shek started a counter-revolution, but instead of fleeing Jingyu continued to help the workers' movement. She was arrested in 1928 and executed by Guomindang police.
Bibliography
<p>McElderry, Andrea. "Woman Revolutionary: Xiang Jingyu." <em>The China Quarterly</em> 105 (March 1986): 95-122.</p>
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Xiang Jingyu
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Women's rights and labor reform
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An account of the resource
Pioneer of women's movement in China
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Amy French
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feminism
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An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
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1913
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Huttig, Arkansas
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1999
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Activist, Journalist
Biographical Text
Daisy Bates’ fight for justice began long before the world knew her name. As a black woman born and matured prior to the Civil Rights Movement, she experienced the segregation and legal racism that came because of her skin tone. When she was a child, one of the first encounters she had with prejudice was when a butcher chose to keep serving the white clientele even after she placed her order for some meat (Calloway-Thomas, Garner, 1996). Though the separation by skin color was a part of her culture, this was one of the first times that being an African American disadvantaged her. As she grew older and more involved as an activist for equality, her business as a newspaper company, <em>State Press</em>, came under frequent boycotting. These obstacles seemed to fuel Daisy’s passion for justice even more. When faced with an obstacle, she didn’t back off or give up, she threw her whole being into dismantling the injustice and doing so in a way that would send ripples throughout history for her daring to change the norm. <br /><br />A significant event of the Civil Rights Movement was the Supreme Court case, <em>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka </em>(1954). This case determined that the segregation by skin color was unconstitutional in schools, striking down the previous case that had shaped state and federal laws, <em>Plessy v. Ferguson </em>(1896), which stated segregation was allowed as long as the groups were treated equally. The implications of <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> were widespread, tumultuous, and contributed to the movement in America that fought for the equality of people of color. Though the court case changed the laws of the land, application was difficult and long in coming. To begin desegregating schools, especially of the progressively stagnant southern states, a leader was needed to organize, implement, and follow through with the plans. Such a person was found in Daisy Bates, a woman who dared to change the social climate for nine students of color to become enrolled at an all-white institute, Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas. <br /><br />Why was this school so important? The integration of Central High School could fill many textbooks with the layers of its complexity. Due to it being the very first school to become desegregated since <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> three years previous was decided, there was a plan set in place to integrate nine students of color into the school, and to make sure they were safe going to and from the institution. Daisy Bates’ house became the official meeting place for the students prior to attending school and before returning home. She was active in ensuring the safety of the nine students. The world needed a strong person to champion this cause and Daisy Bates was the woman who fit the job description. Because she successfully integrated the nine students into Central High School, it became an example of a school desegregation. This was the beginning of other schools following suit, though there were many other struggles that came with this movement (Jacoway, 2007). <br /><br />Most well known for her spearheading of the Little Rock desegregation, Daisy Bates was involved long afterwards in the social justice movement. She was a prominent speaker at rallies and conferences and a true leader. Heavily involved especially during the Civil Rights Movement, including working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference executive committee. When former President Lyndon B. Johnson was in office, she was a part of the anti-poverty programs. Even after suffering a stroke in 1959, she remained involved in her local community, in bettering different parts of their town such as the streets and sewage system. She passed away on November 4, 1999, after a long and full life of campaigning for human rights.
Bibliography
Calloway-Thomas, Carolyn and Thurmon Garner, “Daisy Bates and the Little Rock School Crisis: Forging the Way” <em>Journal of Black Studies</em>, Vol. 26, No. 5, Special Issue: The Voices of African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement (May 1996), 616-628.<br /><br />Jacoway, Elizabeth. <em>Turn Away Thy Son</em>. Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 2007.<br /><br />Reed, Linda. “The Legacy of Daisy.” T<em>he Arkansas Historical Quarterly, </em>Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), 76-83.
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Daisy Bates
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A lead activist in the desegregation of Little Rock high school
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