This sign from 1920 was designed to be placed in the window of a home so that all who passed would know that the woman within had exercised her right under the 19th amendment and registered to vote. It also served as a reminder to other women to do the same. I have...
Harvest is nearly over now, and cans of fruit, vegetables, and meat are lined up on pantry shelves — and grocery shelves — like soldiers in a regiment. This has been a busy year for farmers, and for farm women, in food production. Just as some women have gone to work in war plants, joined the armed services, and taken over men's jobs in cities, so others have gone to work on farms to help produce food. Quietly and without fanfare, they have taken their place beside husbands, sons, and brothers in the fields and farm yards; and some have run farms alone.
School desegregation is a fact in Little Rock and - because of Little Rock - in many other Southern cities, but Daisy Bates, who played a key role in making it all possible, is forgotten by the public.—Thomas Fuller (Negro Digest/May 1962) She was the...
The precipitous change in Johnson's fortunes is most readily explained by the Vietnam war, to which he remained committed longer and more staunchly than did national opinion.
Living in the loneliness of lodgings without friends at hand, except for the casual business acquaintances who may or may not be congenial associates, the solitary exile is completely cut off from the companionship of women of his own social position These lonely ones – and they form the great marriageable mass of the community – want opportunities for cultivating each other's acquaintance.
America the Drug Addicted
In this publication, Kebler uses strong language and examples to condemn the use of addictive ingredients in products used by Americans of walks of life. Its release was the culmination of an investigation that revealed the "alarming extent to which such habit-forming ingredients are used, and the large number of channels through which they reach the public, which is not informed as to their nature."
15-Year-Old Sailor Fears School More than War (1943)
Worrying Walter was the thought that he might be put back in the eighth grade. Torpedoes, Machine gun fire and bomb bursts – including one that gave him a nasty shrapnel wound – didn't bother him much, he said.
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
Author, political activist, lecturer
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
President, USA
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Women's rights activist, abolitionist
Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Abolitionist, freethinker, author