4. As “happy” “mammies” became sharecroppers A brave sharecropper teaches her own children at home Should freedwomen stay at home, or join the waged workforce?
5. (though it took 100 years for black women to have less stereotyped representation in popular culture)
12. Escaped Slaves Became Strong Fighters against Slavery and Prejudice Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) Fierce abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) Vital part of the Underground Railroad Post-war worker for rights And (below) her extended, constructed family
13. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Fighter against Terrorism Ida Belle Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) Fighter for justice, suffrage, women’s rights, Wells-Barnett fought fiercely and bravely against the terror of lunching
17. Florence Kelley, Fighter for Working Class Rights of Women, Children, and All Workers (1859-1932)
18. When Women Were Supposed to be Otherwise Occupied “ No Time for Politics”
19. The Gemütlich household as Refuge from the Industrial World A Social Icon of the late 19 th and 20 th Centuries
20. Some Women Struggled to Reform Men, the Home, and (later) Society Frances Willard of the WCTU Willard and Lady Somerset of the British temperance movement
21. While Middle-Class African-American Women Sought Racial Uplift through Reform Anna Julia H. Cooper, educator and social activist (1858-1964)
22. And Some Immigrants Endured a Tough Life on the Frontier Jewish Immigrants in North Dakota, 1890
23. Or Urban Life in the Sweatshops Italian Garment Worker, NYC, 1910
24. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911, NYC exposed the working dangers of young, immigrant women and inspired a new wave of reform Locked in their high-rise factory, 123 suffocated, burned, or jumped to their deaths, most girls aged 13 to 23
25. Or in Small Town “Women’s” Jobs Telephone Operators, Roseburg, Oregon, 1910