Category: Spring 2019
Introduction
Women from WWII to present day have seen tremendous changes in their professional occupations due to their fight to be seen more as individuals rather than as minorities. The focus… Read more »
Introduction
The United States of America has an unfortunate trend of fighting for democracy and freedom abroad without giving those same rights to its own people. When America becomes militarily involved,… Read more »
World War I
Uncle Sam (as “Public Opinion”) embracing nurse (“American womanhood”) (1917) This propaganda poster was created by Morris for the Brooklyn Magazine. It was published in the Brooklyn magazine on November 10,… Read more »
Introduction to a Historical Exhibition on Segregation in the United States
This exhibit will explore the history of segregation in the United States and its impact on the lives of African Americans. Segregation meant that African-Americans had to use separate facilities,… Read more »
Introduction
This Museum Exhibition will cover topics of inequality in America spanning from the Gilded Age until the Civil Rights Movement. It will focus on systematic inequalities seen in areas of… Read more »
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Newspaper Cover Reporting Labor Strikes (1877) This source is the front page of a newspaper published on July 27, 1877 by The Philadelphia Inquirer. In the first line of the… Read more »
The New Deal and World War II
Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt on Labor Discrimination (1939) This source was written on April 11, 1939 by Helen M. Eastlock in Haddonfield, New Jersey. It is addressed to Eleanor Roosevelt,… Read more »
The Civil Rights Movement
Brown vs. Board of Education Decision (1955) This source is a court document from the District Court of Topeka, Kansas. It was filed on May 31, 1955 and established law… Read more »
Introduction
The entertainment and music industry has been historically entrenched in sexist, racist and patriarchal structures. Women have had to fight to enter the industry, all the while their bodies being… Read more »
American Wars And Social Movements
If You Are Good Enough For War, You Are Good Enough To Vote, Cartoon (1917) If You Are Good Enough For War, You Are Good Enough To Vote is a… Read more »
The Effects of Immigration on Population
Introduction This project will look at the period from Reconstruction to World War II, and examine how the increasing population during that time was affected by the influx of immigration… Read more »
Effect of Jim Crow
Bus Station An American photographer for the farm security administration took a photograph of an African American man in 1940 standing at the black only bus station in Durham, North… Read more »
Introduction
This project will outline women’s liberation struggles from the 1870’s to the late 1960’s specifically touching on women’s issues during these years regarding sexuality. The exhibition will highlight various women’s… Read more »
The Jazz Age (1920-1940’s)
Lucille Bogan’s song “Shave Em’ Dry” Lucille Bogan’s song “Shave ‘Em Dry” breaks the moral barriers that previous music in decades before held, explicitly describing and detailing Bogan’s sexual appetite,… Read more »
Lives in the South
Rosa Parks Interview This interview of Rosa Parks went in depth to discussed what life was like in the 50s. Rosa Parks is known as the mother of the civil… Read more »
Women in the Gilded Age (1870’s)
Comstock Act (1873) See Source Here: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=017/llsl017.db&recNum=0639 This is the documentation of the passing of the Comstock Act in 1873 stating that the use of birth control had become completely illegal… Read more »
Rock and Roll (1950-1970’s)
Malone, Bill C., and David Stricklin. “The 1960s and 1970s: Rock, Gospel, Soul.” In Southern Music/American Music, 108-28. University Press of Kentucky, 1979. “The 1960s and 1970s: Rock, Gospel, Soul” provides… Read more »
Rise of Pop Music/Girl Groups (1980-1990’s)
“The Sassy, Sexy Young Women of Pop.”Cosmopolitan, vol. 211, no. 5, 11, 1991, pp. 182-185. The 1991 article of Cosmopolitan Magazine titled “The Sassy, Sexy Young Women of Pop” displays… Read more »