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Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission

The Hon. Tahesha Way, Lt. Governor and Secretary of State

Women in Politics and at Work

Grades 5 through 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

“Let Women Vote!”
Jersey Journeys (March 1998).
Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ 07102.
Phone: (973)596-8500

Audio and Video


A documentary film produced by Nancy O'Mallon, Winner of the Garden State Film Festival Best Homegrown Short, 2007

Internet Sites

Grades 9 through 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

“Reformers and Crusaders”
(Equal Rights for All, On the Picket Line, Women's Clubs, Education for Women, Charity and Social Work, Suffrage Campaign)
pp. 57-82. In Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ History Series. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 1997

“Politics, Wages, and Equality”
(The Twenties, Social Feminism, the Depression, World War II, Equal Rights, Recovery and Feminism Renewed, Feminization of Poverty)
pp. 82-105. In Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ History Series. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 1997

“Women Standing for Women: The Early Political Career of Mary T. Norton”
pp. 371-392. In A Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Anthology
Edited and compiled by Maxine N. Lurie.
Gary Mitchell. Newark: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Society, 1994

Past and Promise: Lives of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Women
by the Women's Project of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996
Alice Stokes Paul, pp. 177-180
Elizabeth Coleman White, pp. 29-211
Virginia Apgar, pp. 227-229
Marie Katzenbach, pp. 333-335
Mary Norton, pp. 368-370

Audio and Video

Alice Paul: Crusader for Equality
A television documentary produced by Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network, 1990

The Progressive Banner
Program 9 in the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Legacytelevision series.
Co-produced by NJN Public Television and the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 2003

“America is a Man's World Too”
(Streaming Audio)
, three-half hour radio documentaries.
Co-produced by WBGO and the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission.
Scroll down to "America, the Dream of My Life"

Documents

“America is a Man's World, Too”
pp. 190-194. In America the Dream of My Life: Selections from the Federal Writers' Project's Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Ethnic Survey
Edited by David Steven Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990

Words That Make Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995

Sexual Harassment in Vineland (1907), pp. 179-180
Vote For the Woman Suffrage Amendment (c. 1915), pp. 198-200
Regulating Female Employment (1923), p. 215
The National Woman's Party in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ (1925), pp. 216-218
Radical Feminists Protest Miss America (1968), pp. 270-272

Report on Women's Work in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ, 1887

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Woman Suffrage Amendment, 1915

Pioneer Suffragist Casts GOP Ballot, 1920

Minutes of the First Meeting of the League of Women Voters

What the Home Town Thinks of Alice Paul, 1919
Well, Boys, We Saved the Home”, 1915
Suffragists in Ballet Parade
Leaflets of the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1915

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Online Lectures

Delight Dodyk, “Woman Suffrage and the Progressives: the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Connection”

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Barbara Petrick, “Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Settlement Houses and Urban Reform”

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Internet Sites


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