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20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Women of the Great Migration, Part II: Women Journalists

Eighteen well-dressed African American women posing for a picture. They sit and stand in three rows in an alleyway between a fence and a building.

Freda D. Brown, 2024 DAR Fellow
May 6, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Women of the Great Migration, Part I: Letters from the South

Colored glass slide showing 15 Black women working at sewing machines in a large hall. Completed dresses hang on the walls around them.

Freda D. Brown, 2024 DAR Fellow
May 6, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

The Chicago Defender as the North Star

Approximately 30 Black men in suits and ties sit at two long tables in a small, well-decorated room. Most have reading material in front of them. Two stand at a rack of newspapers on the side of the room.

Freda D. Brown, 2024 DAR Fellow
May 6, 2024

19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

These Are the Women Who Saved the Cities

Black-and-white bust photos of Jane Addmas (left) and Janie Porter Barrett (right). Addams is a middle-aged white woman wearing a high-necked black dress. Porter Barret is a younger light skinned Black woman wearing a high-necked dress decorated with buttons.

Kathleen Thompson
May 1, 2023

15th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Contexts for the Book of Margery Kempe

Colored drawing of a nun (St. Bridget) writing at a writing desk. An angel whispers in her ear while a monk prays next to her. Above her head is a dove descending from a burst of light representing the Holy Spirit. On either side of the dove are depictions of Jesus Christ. On the left, God the father (an older man with a beard) holds him after he was taken down from the cross. On the right, the Virgin Mary holds him as a baby. All the figures are white.

Joe Stadolnik, PhD
December 5, 2022

18th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Middle School

The Will of Eduarda Rita Garduño

Two-page spread of a modern printed book.

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
November 3, 2022

20th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Women’s Suffrage

Illustration of a woman (Lady Liberty) sweeping across the United States west to east. The illustration suggests women’s suffrage extended gradually across the United States over decades before the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920.

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
April 6, 2022

19th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

From the Letters of Amy Eleanor Wingreen (1870-1919)

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 30, 2021

19th Century, 20th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Elementary School

The Narrative of Sarah Graves

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 25, 2021

20th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Elementary School

Who Was Mother Jones?

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 23, 2021

20th Century, Collection Essays

Women in the Workforce in the United States

Two-page spread entitled "Her Day Begins with a Frantic Race Against the Clock." Photos of Filling at a lunch counter, in a office with a man, walking on the sidewalk, in her bedroom, and reading in the bathroom (clockwise from top right).

Lisa Schoblasky, Newberry Library
October 18, 2019

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Searching for Ophelia in the Archive

Paul Hecht
May 17, 2018