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Women’s History Month- Unsung Heroines

American women have always been involved in politics. They may have been excluded from party membership, voting, or running for office but they were vocal about political issues and participated in party activities. Women in western territories were voting long before the national woman suffrage amendment of 1920. There were so many great women who …

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Women’s History Month- The Early Women’s Movement

To prepare for this article, I read a book entitled, Women, Politics, And American Society. The book is the third edition and a collaborative effort written by four female authors, Nancy E. McGlen, Karen O’Conner, Laura van Assendelft and Wendy Gunther-Canada. This edition helps readers fully understand women’s struggles by tracing the efforts, achievements, and …

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Birmingham “the most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S.” In 1962, a federal court ordered the city to integrate its park. Rather than obey the order, the city closed its parks. The city gave up its professional baseball team rather than play with Black players. Like all Southern …

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