do we still need women’s history month?
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Do We Still Need Women’s History Month?. Dr. Shelly Lemons and Friends McKendree University Brown Bag. Pop Quiz!!. 1. Which mother led a 125–mile march of child workers all the way from the textile mills of Pennsylvania to President Theodore Roosevelt’s vacation home on Long Island?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Do We Still Need Women’s History Month?
Dr. Shelly Lemons and FriendsMcKendree University
Brown Bag
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Pop Quiz!!
1. Which mother led a 125–mile march of child workers all the way from the textile mills of Pennsylvania to President Theodore Roosevelt’s vacation home on Long Island?
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Mary Harris Jonesaka “Mother” Jones
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2. One of the most important Union spies and scouts during the Civil War was a Black woman who had escaped from slavery. Can you name her?
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Harriet Tubmanaka “The General”
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3. The line of beauty products she created for African Americans made her the first Black woman millionaire in the United States. Who was she?
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Madam C.J. Walker
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4. She opened Chicago’s Hull House, a community center to improve conditions for poor immigrants. Her name?
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Jane Addams
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5. She is best known as the original leader and founder of Third Wave Feminism, the movement, and the co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation. She wrote To Be Real, the original Third Wave primer.
Who is this current leader in the women’s movement?
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Rebecca Walker
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Bonus:
A writer and biologist, she touched off an international controversy about the environmental effects of pesticides with her 1962 book, The Silent Spring. Who is she?
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Rachel Carson
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Tie Breaker:
Which early 19th century woman fought her husband and the Shakers for custody of her children? This woman eventually secured a divorce—granted by the state legislature— and reclaimed her children in 1818.
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Eunice Chapman
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So…do we still need women’s history?
Did you get 100% on the quiz? Well, did you?
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National Women’s History Projectwww.nwhp.org
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What McK students have to say…
HIS 271 and 371
McKendree Young Feministshttp://mck-feministuniversity.tumblr.com/
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Engagement and Women’s History
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Women in American Politics
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/Current_Numbers.php
http://womenincongress.house.gov/