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Women Making History

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Celebration of Women Writers
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography
• Domestic Goddess Harriet Beecher-Stowe
• Women in History - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Anna Ella Carroll

• Anna Ella Carroll: Maryland Women's Hall of Fame
• Shore Woman Advised Lincoln in War Strife
• Anna Ella Carroll: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
• Famous Maryland Women
• Anna Ella Carroll: A Time of Protest: Suffragists Challenge the Republic: 1870-1877

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Matilda Joslyn Gage was a leader in the women's rights movement. She was raised in an Abolitionist home that was a station on the underground railroad. After the Civil War, Gage, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to form their own organization with other radical feminists called the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA). The NWSA developed a platform of civil disobedience; women went to vote even thought they were told they could not.

Gage tried another tactic, showing that just about any man could vote, including convicted felons, but tax-paying landowners that happened to be women could not vote.

Gage wrote her most influential work called Women, Church and State in 1893. For more information about, Matilda Joslyn Gage see the links below:

Until liberty is attained--the broadest, the deepest, the highest liberty for all--not one set alone, one clique alone, but for men and women, black and white, Irish, Germans, Americans, and Negroes, there can be no permanent peace.
~ Matilda Joslyn Gage spoke these words during the Civil War, illustrating her life-long commitment to freedom for all people.

• Matilda Joslyn Gage: forgotten feminist
• Matilda Joslyn Gage Website
• More than a century later, the words of feminist pioneer Matilda Joslyn Gage ring loud and clear: Mother Knew Best
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: New York State History Net
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: Council for Secular Humanism
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: Woman of Courge Profile
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: Obituary in The Weekly Recorder
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: National Women's Hall of Fame
• Matilda Joslyn Gage: A Station on the Underground Railroad

"There is a Word Sweeter than Mother Home or Heaven. That Word is Liberty." ~ Matilda Joslyn Gage

Margaret Mead

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." ~ Margaret Mead, 1901-1978

• Margaret Mead Centennial Celebration
• American Museum of Natural History's Margaret Mead Exhibit
• Margaret Mead: Words and Deeds in American History
• Margaret Mead: Human Nature & the Power of Culture
• Library of Congress Exhibit - Learning to Live in One World
• Margaret Mead As a Cultural Commentator

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Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott was an outspoken leader of the antislavery and women's rights movements in America. Her family were Quakers, and she became a Quaker minister in 1821. Mott was active in the abolitionist movement in the United States before the Civil War. She helped found two anti-slavery groups, and was well known for her eloquent speeches against slavery.

• Lucretia Mott: American Antislavery and Women's Rights Leader: An overview of her life and accomplishments.
• National Women's Hall of Fame: Lucretia Mott
• I Am No Advocate of Passivity: Remarks delivered at the 24th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, October 25-26, 1860

Harriet Tubman

Harriet (Ross) Tubman was born a slave in 1819 (She is also reported to have been born in 1820 or 1821) in Maryland. When she was 25, she a free African American named married John Tubman. Five years later, when it appeared that her deceased master's property would be sold she escaped to freedom in Philiadelphia, Pennsylvania via Canada. Once in Philidelphia, she met William Still and other members of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society - leaders in the Underground Railroad.

She later traveled to Baltimore brought members of her family, including her sister and her two children to her then home in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

With the help of other abolitionists, Tubman eventually moved to the home of NY Senator Seward in Auburn, New York. Then, for a small price, Sewards sold the house to Tubman for her base of operations. Tubman continued to speak out and to work with other New York abolitionist such as Frederick Douglass.

Harriet Tubman made at least fifteen trips to the south and lead at least 200 people to freedom. All Tubman's trips on the Underground Railroad had been successful due to her detailed planning - she planned ahead for clothing, food, train tickets, forged passes and even sedatives for crying babies. Fleeing slavery was risky business, but Tubman was prepared. When the Civil War came, Tubman brought her talents as a strategic planner to her own efforts to help the Union win the war. She served as a nurse, a cook and a scout - receiving official commendations from several Union Army officers. She gained the respect of the troops she worked with. Unfortunately, as a woman, she received no veterans benefits of her own.

• HarrietTubman.com
• Harriet Tubman: An Illustrated Account
• The Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn NY

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth dedicated her life to confronting injustice, and actively working for the abolition of slavery and toward equal rights for women. A slave for forty years, Sojourner Truth believed she had a mission and a duty to speak out - to speak what she knew to be true - no matter what. "Lord, I have done my duty, and I have told the whole truth and kept nothing back."

• Ain't I A Woman?: Sojourner Truth's most recognized speech that she delivered at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851.
• Sojourner Truth Institute: Good list of links about Sojourner Truth
• A Celebration of Women Writers - Narrative of Sojourner Truth
• Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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