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The stories surrounding gay liberation, protests and marches that set the platform for gay and lesbian acceptance. 

Alongside the fight for LGBT equality, women were struggling to raise themselves as a whole as well. This article examines women in the workforce within the 1970s and compares it to the females in the working world today.

PBS provides an extensive timeline that have propelled gay rights within America, beginning with the Society for Human Rights in December 1924 through June 2011 when New York State passed the Marriage Equality Act.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The gilderlehrman.org site focuses on American History and is "devoted to the improvement of history education". The site provides tools for both teachers and students to enhance the study of American History. This page contains an article by Susan Ware that talks about women and the Great Depression and the important role played by women in helping their families survive through this time and how little they had to work with in order to do so.

Another angle to this photo is women's roles during the Great Depression. This website examines exactly that. Men and women saw the Great Depression. For women, there became more pressure to take care of their families as food and money were very hard to come by.

This site gives more insight on women's contributions during the Depression. It focuses on the women's roles during that particular time. The women of the depression showed a lot of courage and they were determined to survive during these tough times. Husbands brought home reduced wages and the women did what ever it took at home to take care of the family. An example of this would be when women would buy old bread , eat less and warmed dishes to save on gas.

This site also reflects the roles of women during the Depression. However it focuses on the work detail for which women were responsible . When their husbands lost their jobs, women were forced into the labor market. The New Deal was a program created to aid economic recovery and it helped improve women's working conditions. The depression caused more women to have to get jobs than any other time in history. the New Deal also helped women overcome some racial prejudices against non- white women workers.

This site discusses gender roles during the Depression. Women no longer stayed home and took care of the house. They now had to go out a get low paying jobs. Women worked just as hard as men however they would only get paid have as much. I assume not being equal caused added stress. The picture that we are studying shows a young lady who's twenty seven years old but she looks twice her age.

This site shows many interesting pictures during the Depression. One of my favorites is of a eighteen year old mother with her very young child. The mother is standing behind her baby while the kid is eating something from the ground. After viewing multiple sites on the Great Depression I learned that not everyone struggle during this time. The majority of people who lived during the Depression were poor however there a small percentage of people who were not affected at all. This divided America into two classes: the rich and the poor.

This page provides a little of the back story of Allie Mae Burroughs, who became the subject of a depression era iconic portrait by Walker Evans.  The image was taken as a series of four, all very similar in pose, expression and tone.  This page explained briefly on their lives as depression era sharecroppers with no real opportunity to advance from this life of hard work and poverty.  Interestingly enough, Allie Mae is compared to the Mona Lisa, in their absence of expression and hiding of thought.

That book," Doug says, caused "a lot of bad blood" in his family. "That writer, Jimmy what's-his-name," never told the family he was writing a book, "exploited" them for profit, and "humiliated" them by laying bare the difficult reality of their lives. While the Burroughs family worked in the field, Agee and Evans stayed back at the house. The family assumed they were simply lazy, but later learned from the book that the "spies" spent their days poking through drawers to record every spool of thread, scrap of fabric, and clip of newsprint they discovered within. That was invading their privacy. This site really helps explain a lot of how people of lower class were manipulated, misused and how people of different skin tones other than black also dealt with the same harsh realities in America. Heidi Beckles

This CNN.money site combines information from CNN plus Fortune and Money magazines. This article by David Whitford of Fortune magazine goes into some detail about the story behind the photograph we are studying this week. The woman in the photo (taken when she was only 27 years old) is identified as Allie Mae Burroughs. Her son, Charles Burroughs recalls what life was like for him and his family during the Depression years.

This is an article of the return to Hale County, Alabama to speak with the descendants of Walker Evans' famous depression era portraits.  In this interview with Charles Burroughs, the son of Allie Mae Burroughs, he describes vividly the backdrop to the famous portrait.  The tough life of the depression era is evident in the portrait of 27 year old Allie Mae who looks like hard work has aged her and her eyes well beyond 27 years.

The son of Allie Burroughs swore he would never do what he's doing right now (an interview)," says Charles Burroughs. Tall and broad with a bald pate and those familiar gray eyes. Blue shirt, khaki pants, aviator glasses. Thick, flat fingers, grit under the nails. He has come reluctantly to meet me after work at a Waffle House in Tuscaloosa. Still angry after all these years at how a writer and a photographer on assignment for this magazine moved into his house when he was just a boy, 4 years old (he remembers the day), and stayed for weeks, and while the family was working in the fields, snooped around in dresser drawers and under beds, and took notes, and took pictures, and shared what they had taken with all the world. James Agee and Walker Evans gave us a lasting image of the Depression; Charles Burroughs and his family got squat. This site lets you in to the confusion and heart ache of the children of Allie-Mae Burroughs, the psychological aftermath the children has endured in their working situations. It also expresses how Charles Burroughs parents worked and just never had a chance, in a mostly African American area, making some 5.50 and dropping to 5.15 and hour if late to work once, or ever have to leave before the line shuts down for the day, to support a family. It also touches on the editors from Fortune who sent Agee and Evans south wanted them to write about poor whites. That they found their subjects in Hale County was more than a little perverse. Most of the county's people, and an even higher percentage of the poor people, were and are African American. This site also gives incite into the black society in this era i.e. - one Yolanda Robinson, who worked in quality control for a seafood company, is a sharecropper's granddaughter and is black. She won prizes for elocution in high school, joined the Navy, married young, and was widowed in her 20s. On her second stint at the catfish plant, had hoped she'd never have to

As the Great Depression took hold of America, the people living and migrating seek the American dream i.e. job security, instead they experienced hard times. Their reality was to what was to come was not the reality these additional pictures depict. Ton's of people were homeless, and shacked up as to provide shelter. The images also give the idea as to how landlords capitalized on small spaces housing plenty, sometimes without proper sanitation systems; a tenement situation, divided to house. This site relates to the image of Allie Burroughs, because it shows that much of America experienced this aged look due to the Great Depression, where the government missed other areas that needed economic help; and people in the south to me suffered the most. The tenement situation, also relates to what the Burroughs living situation. In addition, Allie and other women in this era, could have faced more inequality, like rape due to overcrowding. Eric Lott would explain this as the class structures that formed with the onset of the new economic system as a result, rather than a cause, of the historical events that led up to it, hence my other post of labeling Allie Burroughs as a hillbilly. Heidi Beckles