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The GPC covers a range of issues—including economic security, health, gender-based violence and education—with a focus on gender equity and equality, and particular attention to the barriers faced by women and girls. -
The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. -
The purpose of this was trying to persuade people that women, black or white, should be treated as equal to men. They should have rights just like men. -
Its a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. -
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (born Victoria California Claflin; September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for President of the United States in the 1872 election. -
The event brought women from around the country to Washington in a show of strength and determination to obtain the ballot. -
Rankin finished second in the voting, defeating Frank Bird Linderman, among others, to become the first woman elected to Congress. During her victory speech, she said, "I am deeply conscious of the responsibility resting upon me" as the only woman in the nation with voting power in Congress. -
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. -
This letter is meant to serve as a caution to him of the harsh realities of being black in the United States. -
You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong. "You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin.