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Today in women’s history: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
March 20, 2014Stowe was highly active in the abolition movement. She and her husband supported the Underground Railroad and temporarily housed slaves in their home.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Hull House co-founder Ellen Starr born
March 19, 2014In 1896, Starr joined the garment workers' strike in support of the workers. She was a founding member of the Chicago chapter of the Women's Trade Union League in 1904.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Betty Allen, steel town to opera, is born
March 17, 2014Growing up in a working class community, Elizabeth Louise (Betty Lou) Allen heard opera on the streets, from neighbors' radios.
Read moreFree Bahareh Hedayat, Iranian student leader, women’s rights activist
March 14, 2014Bahareh Hedayat will be 32 years old next month. She looks likely to mark that birthday in prison unless the Iranian government can be persuaded to free her.
Read moreJoin us Tuesday for a discussion on the assault on women’s rights
March 14, 2014Join us Mar. 18 for a conversation with Carolyn Trowbridge, long-time activist in the women's rights movement in Arizona. In her state and others, the right wing is undermining the right of women to determine what...
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