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Janet Thomas

Women overlooked in civil rights movement - US news - Life - Race & ethnicity | NBC News - 1 views

www.nbcnews.com/...ey-roles-civil-rights-movement

#race #gender #equality #sexism

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  • Janet Thomas on 10 Sep 13
     
    This page on the NBC news website offers a surprising twist to the story of the Civil Rights Movement. It brings up a great point, why is Rosa Parks one of the only women we know about as an icon of that era? Racial equality was being fought for by those in the Civil Rights movement but what about gender equality? This story gives us more to think about when we look at the image of Rosa Parks and the white man on the bus.
erin Garris

The Stonewall Inn: The Spark of the Revolution - 0 views

gvh.aphdigital.org/...1337

#gender #women #gayrights

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  • erin Garris on 19 Nov 13
     
    This site shows photos of gay men holding up banners just like the banner that Donna Gottschalk held. Their banner read "Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day." This was the first of many more celebrations to come. Its 2013 about to be 2014 and the parade is still rocking. I work in a predominately gay area and every year I witness people coming from the annual parade. Now I wonder if these new participants know their history.
Jacqueline Alley

Women's Rights Movement - 0 views

www.anb.org/cush_rights.html

#gender #women #women'srightsmovement #suffrage

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 13 Nov 13
     
    This is a great site that breifly sums up the Women's Right Movement from 1848 to 1920, although women fought for many years after. It describes the events that took place at the convention in Seneca Falls, NY where activists gathered to discuss many reforms. It was at this convention that Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the treatise that called for women's right to vote and insisted that women be granted "immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States."
Jacqueline Alley

Early College Women - 0 views

www.northnet.org/...college.htm

#gender #women #civilrights #college

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 13 Nov 13
     
    This site takes a look into women who attended college during the late 1800s and early 1900s. These women were determined to get an education. In 1870, only .7% of students were women. By 1920, it was still only 7.6%. It wasn't until the Women's Movement that woman made a significant appearance in colleges. I thought this site gave a good background to the presence of women in college before and leading up to the Women's Movement, which helps understand the impact the movement had.
Jacqueline Alley

New Woman - 0 views

www.library.csi.cuny.edu/...newwoman.html

#gender #women #civilrights #newwoman

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 13 Nov 13
     
    A New Woman is defined as a woman who worked, thus had more economic independence, making her less reliant on her husband or father. Their jobs were generally low paying, and the settings were usually in factories or department stores. They fought to change the idea of male dominance. One woman discussed is Colleen Moore, one of the first flappers, or a woman who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz, and showed disdain for conventional dress and behavior. An interesting fact about this site is that it comes from Prof. Lavender's course in women's studies program through the College of Staten Island/CUNY.
Jacqueline Alley

Famous Feminists - 0 views

www.univer.omsk.su/...famous_fem.html

#gender #women #civil rights #feminists

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 13 Nov 13
     
    During the Woman's Movement, their were several famous feminists. This site pulls together a list of famous feminists and gives a little background information on who they were. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate medical school at the top of her class and open her own clinic since others wouldn't hire her. Amelia Jenks Bloomer was a writer and editor for the first newspaper solely produced by woman, The Lily. Other feminists like Ruth Ginsburg and Emily Murphy, took to the courts to fight for equality for women. All these woman played an important role in achieving the equality and freedom woman have today.
Jacqueline Alley

Voice of Narrators - 0 views

www.smith.edu/...vof-narrators.html

#gender #women #civil rights #lesbians

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 13 Nov 13
     
    This site is a collection of interview transcripts taken by Kelly Anderson of women describing their experiences during the Women's Movement. One woman by the name of Dolores Alexander describes how her father felt there was no need to educate her and refused to pay for her schooling while he paid for her brother's college in full. His reasoning was that she was a woman and was only going to have kids and had no need for an education. Another woman by the name of Virginia Apuzzo describes growing up as a lesbian in a world that held no tolerance for people like her. I think these transcripts give us a first hand look at what it was like to be in their shoes.
erin Garris

An Invitation to New York's First-Ever Gay Pride Parade - 1 views

www.slate.com/..._s_first_gay_pride_parade.html

#gender #woman #gay rights

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  • erin Garris on 19 Nov 13
     
    This site focuses on the first gay parade in 1970 in New York City. A group called the Gay Liberation Front created flyers for this historic event. This special day was called Liberation Day. The flyer's logo was an illustration of intertwined male on male and female on female symbols. The planning of this event took place shortly after the Stonewall Riots. The riots that took place at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 caused a split between gay activists. Some supported the violence and others were against the radical protests.
erin Garris

Stonewall Uprising - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...player

#gender #women #gayrights

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  • erin Garris on 19 Nov 13
     
    This site talks about a riot that took place in 1969 in New York City. Police raided the Stonewall Inn, which was a popular gay bar located in Greenwich Village section of New York. The streets erupted into violent protests that lasted about six days. The Stonewall Riots, as the incident became known, marked a major turning point in the modern Gay Rights movement. It was also sparked the first Gay Pride parade which took place a year later.
erin Garris

How the Pride Parade Became Tradition - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...pride-parade

#gender #women #gayrights

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  • erin Garris on 19 Nov 13
     
    For over forty years gay pride parades have become tradition in several cities worldwide. They have evolved from radical protests to politicians and entertainers being a part of the event. Participants were very wary of the reaction they would get from non gays. Fear was an issue because back in the 70's It was not accepted to express that you were gay. The parade turned out to be a huge success therefore giving courage to supporters and participants to make this event tradition.
erin Garris

Gay Frontiers: Past, Present, Future - 0 views

sfpride.org/1977.html

#gender #women #gayrights

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  • erin Garris on 19 Nov 13
     
    This site shows a really cool timeline from 1969 until 2010 of Gay Pride celebrations that have taken place in San Francisco. For instance, the information on the timeline consists of the temperature of the event, the amount of people that showed up, who was the mayor at the time and a picture of the flyer.
melissa basso

The Impact of the Great Depression on Women - 2 views

www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief1.htm

#Gender equality #Great depression #New Deal #Race

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  • melissa basso on 04 Oct 13
     
    The Great depression forced many men out of work and out of money. Because of harsh times, men either left their families or sent the women to work, where many times, women were left feeling empowered. However, many men were left feeling worthless due to the dramatic changes, leading to further lack of work and income or worse, a broken home. With FDR's "new deal", aimed at providing employment to the poor, families had hope. However, African Americans were only pushed further into poverty as white males were the first to be hired for long term positions.
Janet Thomas

Why Gender Equality Stalled - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...y-gender-equality-stalled.html

#gender #womensmovement #gendergap

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  • Janet Thomas on 30 Oct 13
     
    This article from the NY Times site talks about the impact that Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique" had on altering women's perceptions of their gender roles and their place in American society. While the article is a little lengthy the first page alone offers a great deal of history and statistics concerning the gender gap and its persistence in American culture.
Janet Thomas

Oberlin College LGBT Community History Project - Lesbianism and the Women's Movement (e... - 0 views

www.oberlinlgbt.org/...mens-movement-early-1970s.html

#gender #womensmovement #lesbianism

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  • Janet Thomas on 30 Oct 13
     
    This page from the Oberlin Collge LGBT Community History site describes the link between the Women's Movement of the early 1970s and lesbianism. The page offers insight into why many women were undergoing huge changes in the way they thought about traditional gender roles and sexuality in the late 60s and early 70s.
Janet Thomas

WHO | What do we mean by "sex" and "gender"? - 0 views

www.who.int/...en

#gender #sex #definition

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  • Janet Thomas on 30 Oct 13
     
    This page is from the World Health Organization web site which provides a wealth of information about a vast number of health and welfare issues under the umbrella of the United Nations. Here the definitions of the terms "sex" and "gender" are discussed. These terms can often be confused and I found this page to offer a clear definition of the two terms.
Janet Thomas

LGBT Rights | American Civil Liberties Union - 0 views

www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights

#gender #aclu #civilrights

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  • Janet Thomas on 30 Oct 13
     
    The American Civil Liberties Union seeks to "defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties" that are afforded to citizens as outlined in the U.S. Constitution. This page from the ACLU site addresses LGBT rights and seeks to allow LGBT individuals to live "free of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity". The history of LGBT civil rights cases goes back to 1936 and continues to this day.
Jasmine Wade

1970: A First-Person Account of the First Gay Pride March - Page 1 - News - New York - ... - 0 views

www.villagevoice.com/...t-of-the-first-gay-pride-march

#gender # #LGBT #community #NYC #rights #marches

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  • This was long before anyone had heard of a “Gay Pride March.” Back then, it took a new sense of audacity and courage to take that giant step into the streets of Midtown Manhattan. One by one, we encouraged people to join the assembly. Finally, we began to move up Sixth Avenue. I stayed at the head of the march the entire way, and at one point, I climbed onto the base of a light pole and looked back. I was astonished; we stretched out as far as I could see, thousands of us. There were no floats, no music, no boys in briefs. The cops turned their backs on us to convey their disdain, but the masses of people kept carrying signs and banners, chanting and waving to surprised onlookers.
  • Janet Thomas on 30 Oct 13
     
    This article from The Village Voice recounts the very first Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day Parade (where the image we are discussing this week was taken) and provides interesting information about the way that homosexuals/lesbians were viewed at that time.
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  • anonymous on 05 Nov 13
     
    This article gives some insight into the first gay pride march. This is a first-person account. This article showed optimism regarding equal rights for gays and lesbians.
  • David McLellan on 05 Nov 13
     
    Many times we forget that many of the causes we are so familiar with today at one time were in their starting phase. This first hand account of one of the first Gay Pride marches through Midtown and illustrates the pride and courage of those who where at that march in 1970. This is the march where the photo of Donna Gottschalk was taken and this article gives a first hand account of that day.
  • eugene yates on 06 Nov 13
     
    This a first hand account of the very first Gay Pride March on JUne 28, 1970 in NYC. It captures the emotion of the day and the times. The author speaks of the evolution in the Gay RIghts movement from the silent, conformist protests that preceded Stonewall to the the more radical, self expressive movement.
  • Jasmine Wade on 10 Nov 13
     
    This is a first-person account, written by Fred Sargeant, about the memory of the Christopher Street Liberation Day in 1970. The conception of the march, the sharing of the plan and recruitment, the rules and guidelines of appearance, behavior, and props for the event, and the expectations and execution of the plan to be noticed and heard as a community are shared in this article.
Joanna Ng

Gay and Lesbian Rights - 0 views

www.boundless.com/...gay-and-lesbian-rights

#gender #equality #history

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Nov 13
     
    This website is a textbook alternative, and presents key points as well as a variety of information in the format of a chapter overview and/or summary. In this case, it is pinpointing the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement and the Gay and Lesbian Rights movements which were seeking acceptance and equality for the LGBT community.
Joanna Ng

The Women's Movement - 0 views

countrystudies.us/...history-131.htm

#gender #women #girlpower

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Nov 13
     
    This site is a brief summary of the women's movement from the 1950s until the late 1970s. It is a great source for gaining quick perspective on the society during that point in time and how women took measures to improve their livelihood.
Drew Yost

Women's Liberation Movement - 1 views

novaonline.nvcc.edu/...womensliberation.htm

liberation movement #gender

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  • feminism is defined as the theory of the political, economic, and the social equality of the sexes
  • During World War II, over six million women took an active part in the work force
  • Mary Wollstonecraft was the first feminist when she published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792 in which she advocated for the "social and moral equality of sexes".
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  • At the end of the war, women were laid off from the positions they had during the war. Women again were thrown into the life of being a housewife.
  • true in other areas, such as race, class, and religion, but was prevelant in the way men sterotyped women
  • 950’s women were becoming disgruntled with their place in society and the inability to obtain employment and achieve equality.
  • 960’s was a year of chan
  • 1961, President Kennedy established the Commission on the Status of Women
  • employment, Social Security, education and tax laws
  • aced with cases that dealt with the reproductive rights of women
  • 1963, the Federal Government amended the Equal Rights Act.
  • sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same work establishment was prohibited.
  • to protect women from being discriminated against in the work
  • Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Betty Friedan and twenty-eight women founded the National Organization for Women (NOW).
  • organization was incorporated in 1967
  • boycotted the 1968 Miss America Beauty Contest in Atlantic City to let it be known that women’s worth wasn’t about their appearance.
  • no longer about the right to vote, but it became the battle to be recognized as a citizen and a person.
  • Task forces were created in support of the right to an abortion and protection for victims of rape.
  • The organization is still fighting for the rights of women and ensuring that the organization stays true to the ideals of its founding members.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    The importance of particular women in the history of women's liberation. Particularly discussed is the issue of women's rights and acceptance as equal contributors in society.
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  • melissa basso on 11 Nov 13
     
    That's odd, how does it say you(Drew) shared this website? I added this and the annotations on Monday. :-/
  • Drew Yost on 11 Nov 13
     
    Its ok melissa, I saw that and do I did not annotate and I found another source, but I couldnt delete the share. No worries.
  • melissa basso on 11 Nov 13
     
    Okay- I was just confused- couldn't figure out how that happened-
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