| 1. I wrote for and edited the magazine, The Woman
Rebel, and in 1921 founded the American Birth Control League which became the Planned Parenthood Federation in 1942. |
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| 2. I was the author of
Women and Economics in 1898 and suggested entrepreneurs ought to build apartment houses designed to allow women to combine motherhood with careers. I also dismantled the traditional view of the "woman's sphere." |
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| 3. One of the founders of the Hull House Settlement, I wrote the pamphlet, "Why Women Should Vote." I also helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union. |
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| 4. As a typesetter and union activist, I supported unions and organized the Jane Club which was a boardinghouse for young working women associated with Hull House. |
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| 5. I established the
Alice Freeman Palmer memorial Institute at Sedalia, near Greensboro. This African-American school evolved from an agricultural and manual training facility to a fully accredited, nationally recognized preparatory institution. |
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| 6. This woman encouraged other women to form unions and was the victim of masculine ridicule including satirical cartoons and newspaper attacks. She was a single-mined champion of the federal amendment for women's rights and was called "The Napoleon of the
Women's Rights Movement." |
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| 7. She successfully lobbied Congress to allow women lawyers to practice before the US Supreme Court and sponsored the first southern black admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. She ran for President in 1884 and 1888 on the National Equal Rights Party ticket. |
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| 8. I reorganized the National American
Women's Suffrage Association to be more political in 1890. My secret "Winning Plan" combined state and federal work and unified the mainline movement in 1916. I founded the League of Women Voters. |
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| 9. I was appointed the first state factory inspector in Illinois and remained a part of the Hull House Settlement. |
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| 10. She proposed that women should vote, and as a result, she suffered ridicule and criticism. She was a popular speaker and a forceful writer who drafted resolutions and wrote speeches in support of women's causes. She also was the president of the National
Women's Suffrage Association for 21 years and became the author of The Woman's Bible, disputing the Bible's derogatory treatment of women. |
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| 11. The editor of The
Progress in 1902-1910, she wrote articles emphasizing the role played by women in the development of the nation. She was appointed vice-chair of the Republican National Executive Committee in 1920 and helped win government appointments for women. |
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| 12. She presented "Home Protection" petitions of over 100,000 women to the legislature in 1879 and served for 20 years organizing its members into a strong women's movement sympathetic to suffrage. She was a member of the American
Women's Suffrage Association and a leader in the International Council of Women in 1888. |
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