Mary Church Terrell was a well-known African American activist who championed racial …
Mary Church Terrell was a well-known African American activist who championed racial equality and women’s suffrage.
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Mary Edwards Walker is the only US woman to receive the Presidential …
Mary Edwards Walker is the only US woman to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor.
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Mary Eliza Mahoney pursued a nursing career which supported these aims. She …
Mary Eliza Mahoney pursued a nursing career which supported these aims. She is noted for becoming the first African American licensed nurse.
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Female labor activist “Mother Jones” was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser”. This resource is …
Female labor activist “Mother Jones” was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser”.
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One of the greatest jazz pianists, composers, and arrangers of all time, …
One of the greatest jazz pianists, composers, and arrangers of all time, Mary Lou Williams was a swing and bebop icon.
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A symbolic figure in the American Revolutionary War, the woman known as …
A symbolic figure in the American Revolutionary War, the woman known as “Molly Pitcher” reportedly brought water to the troops at the Battle of Monmouth and worked the cannon after her husband was wounded.
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Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most important black educators, civil …
Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most important black educators, civil and women’s rights leaders and government officials of the twentieth century.
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Mary Musgrove become a negotiator between English and Native American communities and …
Mary Musgrove become a negotiator between English and Native American communities and played an important role in the development of Colonial Georgia.
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Mary Treadwell was a notable DC-based activist and community organizer. Treadwell is …
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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Emmy nominated political and voting rights activist María Teresa Kumar has dedicated …
Emmy nominated political and voting rights activist María Teresa Kumar has dedicated her career to advocating for inclusive political participation.
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Famously referred to as “the woman who was ahead of the women …
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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Poet, dancer, singer, activist, and scholar, Maya Angelou is a world-famous author. …
Poet, dancer, singer, activist, and scholar, Maya Angelou is a world-famous author. She is best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical writing style.
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This kit provides teachers, college faculty and other educators with the materials …
This kit provides teachers, college faculty and other educators with the materials needed to engage students in a dynamic and constructivist process of learning how antiwar movements have been perceived by the people in the United States and how the U.S. media has constructed that public perception. The subject areas covered include U.S. history, African-American studies, labor studies, Latino studies, media studies, Native American studies, peace studies, sociology and women_ÎŁ_ studies among many others.
This series of videos is part of the RAC’s educational programming. These …
This series of videos is part of the RAC’s educational programming. These videos include audiovisual primary sources, and are designed to be part of a media literacy curriculum.The clips of audiovisual documents serve as primary sources that can be viewed, analyzed, and discussed in a classroom setting to help students build media literacy skills.
What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How …
What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow culture, between good taste and bad judgment, and between men and women readers? This course will introduce students to the broad history of popular reading and to controversies about taste and gender that have characterized its development. Our grounding in historical material will help make sense of our main focus: recent developments in the theory and practice of reading, including fan-fiction, Oprah’s book club, comics, hypertext, mass-market romance fiction, mega-chain bookstores, and reader response theory.
As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, Melinda Gates is …
As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, Melinda Gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy.
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Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during …
Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution.
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One of America’s foremost female athletes, Mildred "Babe” Didrikson Zaharias broke world …
One of America’s foremost female athletes, Mildred "Babe” Didrikson Zaharias broke world records in multiple sports and cofounded of the LPGA.
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Miné Okubo is well known for her representations of daily life and …
Miné Okubo is well known for her representations of daily life and humanity in drawings depicting Japanese American internment during WWII.
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