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Department of State

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Historical Commission

Dr. Dale G. Caldwell, Lt. Governor and Secretary of State

Women in Politics and at Work

Grades 5 through 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

“Let Women Vote!”
Jersey Journeys (March 1998).
³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ 07102.
Phone: (973)596-8500

Audio and Video


A documentary film produced by Nancy O'Mallon, Winner of the Garden State Film Festival Best ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏgrown Short, 2007

Internet Sites

Grades 9 through 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

“Reformers and Crusaders”
(Equal Rights for All, On the Picket Line, Women's Clubs, Education for Women, Charity and Social Work, Suffrage Campaign)
pp. 57-82. In ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ History Series. Trenton: ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Historical Commission, 1997

“Politics, Wages, and Equality”
(The Twenties, Social Feminism, the Depression, World War II, Equal Rights, Recovery and Feminism Renewed, Feminization of Poverty)
pp. 82-105. In ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ History Series. Trenton: ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Historical Commission, 1997

“Women Standing for Women: The Early Political Career of Mary T. Norton”
pp. 371-392. In A ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Anthology
Edited and compiled by Maxine N. Lurie.
Gary Mitchell. Newark: ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Historical Society, 1994

Past and Promise: Lives of ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Women
by the Women's Project of ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996
Alice Stokes Paul, pp. 177-180
Elizabeth Coleman White, pp. 29-211
Virginia Apgar, pp. 227-229
Marie Katzenbach, pp. 333-335
Mary Norton, pp. 368-370

Audio and Video

Alice Paul: Crusader for Equality
A television documentary produced by ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Network, 1990

The Progressive Banner
Program 9 in the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Legacytelevision series.
Co-produced by NJN Public Television and the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Historical Commission, 2003

“America is a Man's World Too”
(Streaming Audio)
, three-half hour radio documentaries.
Co-produced by WBGO and the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Historical Commission.
Scroll down to "America, the Dream of My Life"

Documents

“America is a Man's World, Too”
pp. 190-194. In America the Dream of My Life: Selections from the Federal Writers' Project's ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Ethnic Survey
Edited by David Steven Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990

Words That Make ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995

Sexual Harassment in Vineland (1907), pp. 179-180
Vote For the Woman Suffrage Amendment (c. 1915), pp. 198-200
Regulating Female Employment (1923), p. 215
The National Woman's Party in ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ (1925), pp. 216-218
Radical Feminists Protest Miss America (1968), pp. 270-272

Report on Women's Work in ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, 1887

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Woman Suffrage Amendment, 1915

Pioneer Suffragist Casts GOP Ballot, 1920

Minutes of the First Meeting of the League of Women Voters

What the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Town Thinks of Alice Paul, 1919
Well, Boys, We Saved the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ”, 1915
Suffragists in Ballet Parade
Leaflets of the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1915

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Online Lectures

Delight Dodyk, “Woman Suffrage and the Progressives: the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Connection”

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Barbara Petrick, “³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Settlement Houses and Urban Reform”

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Internet Sites


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