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Things I like: suffragettes, war workers, factory girls, socialites who got stuff done, ladies who ruled countries, and women who changed the world, even if it was just a little bit. Click on photos for sources.

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An American newsreel looks at rationing in the UK.

edwardianera: Postcard view of woman pavement artist, Kingsway, London, WC2, UK, circa 1910

edwardianera:

Postcard view of woman pavement artist, Kingsway, London, WC2, UK, circa 1910

ourpresidents: September 23, 1957 was marked by mob riots in Little Rock, Arkansas over efforts to integrate Central High School.   The violence began when a crowd outside of Central High School learned that nine African American students were inside the high school.  Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann asked President Eisenhower to intervene and Eisenhower issued a proclamation providing the legal justification for military intervention. Eisenhower ordered the dispatch of troops to uphold the law and addressed the nation. Protected by 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army and the now federalized National Guard, the nine students attended their first full day of classes on September 25. This photo shows the Little Rock Nine escorted into Central High School by U.S. soldiers.  Image courtesy of Central High Museum Historical Collections/UALR Archives and Special Collections

ourpresidents:

September 23, 1957 was marked by mob riots in Little Rock, Arkansas over efforts to integrate Central High School.  

The violence began when a crowd outside of Central High School learned that nine African American students were inside the high school.  Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann asked President Eisenhower to intervene and Eisenhower issued a proclamation providing the legal justification for military intervention. Eisenhower ordered the dispatch of troops to uphold the law and addressed the nation. Protected by 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army and the now federalized National Guard, the nine students attended their first full day of classes on September 25.

This photo shows the Little Rock Nine escorted into Central High School by U.S. soldiers. 

Image courtesy of Central High Museum Historical Collections/UALR Archives and Special Collections

peacecorps: A Peace Corps nurse in Afghanistan - 1973

peacecorps:

A Peace Corps nurse in Afghanistan - 1973

Recommendation: World Memory Project

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com have created the World Memory Project to transcribe millions of documents from the Nazi period.  Anyone, anywhere in the world can participate using their keying software.

These documents will be searchable on Ancestry.com for free as the collections are completed.

Katie Sandwina, the Lady Hercules

Katie Sandwina, the Lady Hercules

Young Soviet girl tractor-drivers of Kirghizia (now Kyrgyzstan), efficiently replace their friends, brothers and fathers who went to the front. Here, a girl tractor driver sows sugar beets on August 26, 1942. (AP Photo) 

Young Soviet girl tractor-drivers of Kirghizia (now Kyrgyzstan), efficiently replace their friends, brothers and fathers who went to the front. Here, a girl tractor driver sows sugar beets on August 26, 1942. (AP Photo) 

via beauvoiriana: Simone de Beauvoir signing books. This photo is the cover of the French edition of the second volume of Force of Circumstance (1972). Curious detail: on the right, someone asks her to autograph Troubled Sleep (in Portuguese) by her long term romantic partner Jean-Paul Sartre.

via beauvoiriana:

Simone de Beauvoir signing books.

This photo is the cover of the French edition of the second volume of Force of Circumstance (1972). Curious detail: on the right, someone asks her to autograph Troubled Sleep (in Portuguese) by her long term romantic partner Jean-Paul Sartre.

Ideal, not actual policewoman, Cincinnati, 1909 The reason she was ideal and not actual is that the concept of a female police officer was so foreign to the people of Cincinnati that the local suffragettes felt it necessary to demonstrate what a policewoman would look like.

Ideal, not actual policewoman, Cincinnati, 1909

The reason she was ideal and not actual is that the concept of a female police officer was so foreign to the people of Cincinnati that the local suffragettes felt it necessary to demonstrate what a policewoman would look like.

Two girls playing basketball at Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House, Minneapolis, 1925.

Two girls playing basketball at Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House, Minneapolis, 1925.

spraycharles-deactivated2012010 asked: Yay for being on the Radar! You deserve it. :)

Thanks for telling me!  I just logged in for the first time today and my photo of Fay Hubbard has gotten over 1,000 reblogs since last night (even though it was posted Saturday).  Plus my followers are way up and I was a little mystified as to how it happened. 

So thanks to whoever runs the Tumblr radar and hi to new followers!  If you want to see what I’ve already posted, they’re sorted by US State, Country, and various other topics (war workers, suffragettes, civil rights, etc.). 

Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offices of The Suffragist, the weekly journal published by the Congressional Union and National Woman’s Party from 1913 to 1921.

Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offices of The Suffragist, the weekly journal published by the Congressional Union and National Woman’s Party from 1913 to 1921.

via brazilwonders An anti-censorship protest in Brazil during the military dictatorship (1968-1985)

via brazilwonders

An anti-censorship protest in Brazil during the military dictatorship (1968-1985)

September 19, 2011 marks the 118th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand.  New Zealand was the first country to grant all women the right to vote in modern times.  The 2008 stamp above commemorates women’s suffrage and the work of suffrage leader Kate Sheppard.  New Zealand History Online has digitized the 1893 petition which helped enfranchise women.  If you have Kiwi roots or if you’re just curious if someone with your name signed, you can search the petition here.  If you recognize the name and location of a relative, New Zealand History Online is collecting information on all of the signers.

September 19, 2011 marks the 118th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand.  New Zealand was the first country to grant all women the right to vote in modern times.  The 2008 stamp above commemorates women’s suffrage and the work of suffrage leader Kate Sheppard. 

New Zealand History Online has digitized the 1893 petition which helped enfranchise women.  If you have Kiwi roots or if you’re just curious if someone with your name signed, you can search the petition here.  If you recognize the name and location of a relative, New Zealand History Online is collecting information on all of the signers.

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