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Learn about women who have fought for equal justice under the law!

Learn about women who have fought for equal justice under the law!

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March for the Right to Vote Held in 1913 | Periscope

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March for the Right to Vote Held in 1913 | Periscope
Episode 6
By the 1890s, four states had given women the right to vote and many states would follow. The women's rights movement was beginning to have an impact. The 20th century saw more progress towards women...
Women's Rights Supporters' First Meeting | Periscope

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Women's Rights Supporters' First Meeting | Periscope
Episode 4
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and a small group of women's rights supporters met at Elizabeth's house in 1848 to plan the first women's rights convention. In addition to writing the...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Periscope

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Periscope
Episode 3
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton invited Lucretia Mott and a small group of women's rights supporters to her home in Seneca Falls, New York. There, they wrote one of the most important documents of the...
Lucretia Mott | Periscope

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Lucretia Mott | Periscope
Episode 2
In 1840, two American women, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, met at an antislavery meeting in London. Because they were women, neither was allowed to fully participate in the meeting. They...
Modjeska Simkins, Civil Rights Advocate | Periscope

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Modjeska Simkins, Civil Rights Advocate | Periscope
Episode 6
In the 1950s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became known as the leader of the civil rights movement. More than 20 years before Dr. King, Modjeska Simkins began her own work for the civil rights of...
Bethune-Cookman College | Periscope

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Bethune-Cookman College | Periscope
Episode 5
Mary continued to open more schools, created a hospital and promoted voting rights for African Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited her to become an advisor in 1936. Her job required her...
Bethune School | Periscope

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Bethune School | Periscope
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In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune began a school for poor African American children in Daytona, Florida. With only $1.50 to start the school, she had to be very creative. The desks were made from packing...
Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator | Periscope

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Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator | Periscope
Episode 3
At a time when there were few educational opportunities for African Americans, Mary McLeod Bethune created schools and a thriving college for them. Mary was born in Mayesville, South Carolina to freed...
Ruby Bridges (1960) | Periscope

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Ruby Bridges (1960) | Periscope
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Ruby Bridges' first day at William Frantz Elementary School was very unusual. Integration, or the sharing of schools by African American and white people, had recently become law in 1960. She was one...
Jennet Robinson Alterman on Her Career Path | Inside Palmetto Voices Jennet Alterman on the Importance of Female Voting

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Jennet Alterman on the Importance of Female Voting
In a Palmetto Voices exclusive for Ready to Vote, Jennet Alterman, women's rights activist and former Executive Director of the Charleston Center for Women, explains why it is so important for women...
Susan Pringle Frost | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Susan Pringle Frost | S.C. Hall of Fame
Susan Pringle Frost dedicated her life to making sure that Charleston’s historic architectural beauty would be preserved. Born in Charleston to wealthy parents in 1873, she lived in the Miles Brewton...
Modjeska Simkins (1899-1992) | Road Trip

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Modjeska Simkins (1899-1992) | Road Trip
Best known for her fierce stance on behalf of civil rights in South Carolina, the successful businesswoman served as NAACP State Secretary during the 1950s. The Columbia native Mrs. Simkins was...
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) | Road Trip

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Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) | Road Trip
Eleven months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the eyes of the nation focused on Charleston, South Carolina, where a conflict developed over striking workers. On March 20, 1969 Mrs...
Lorraine Hansberry | Artopia

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Lorraine Hansberry | Artopia
Illustration by Maria Manhattan Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois—the daughter of a real estate broker when segregation and restrictive covenants meant that...
Rita Dove | Poetry All-Stars

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Rita Dove | Poetry All-Stars
Episode 5
Rita Dove 1952 - In 1987, Rita Dove was one of the youngest poets to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Dove also became the youngest poet laureate of the United States in 1993. Currently, Dove is a...
Maya Angelou | Poetry All-Stars

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Maya Angelou | Poetry All-Stars
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Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014) Dr. Maya Angelou's busy career has included work as a poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, film producer, director, actress, singer, and civil...
Eliza Briggs | Road Trip

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Eliza Briggs | Road Trip
Eliza and Harry Briggs, Sr. are listed as the first petitioners on the lawsuits from the 1940s and 1950s. Harry, a gas station attendant in Summerton, and his wife, Eliza, lost their jobs and were...
NAACP Today | Road Trip

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NAACP Today | Road Trip
Lee Allyson Gailliard discusses the significance of the youth involvement in the NACCP. She elaborates on the remarkable advantage of participating in The Civil Rights Tour at The University of South...
Martha Varner | Road Trip

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Martha Varner | Road Trip
Martha Varner attended the Pineview School and the Varner Indian School during the 1930s and early 1940s. She recalls as a child being called "Brass Ankle" by other children passing by on school buses...
Modjeska Simkins on Economic Change | Road Trip

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Modjeska Simkins on Economic Change | Road Trip
Mrs. Modjeska Simkins tells of how the business boycotts began in Columbia and around the state. Mrs. Simkins was also at the forefront when the Southern Negro Youth Conference was formed. CREDIT...