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True Colors Annual Conference XIX
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Women Making History

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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

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

Margaret Mead

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"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

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Lucretia Mott

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.

Harriet Tubman

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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.

Sojourner Truth

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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."

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