1. Madame C.J. Walker
Prison and Asylum Reform This reform came up when dear Dorothea Dix agreed to teach education in jail and saw that people were caged and chained and kids were living with prisoned with adult criminals. ... In 1831, a deeply religious white man, William Lloyd Garrison, started a fiery abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. ...
Although these things seem somewhat unimportant, they show how women are started to break away from the chains that bond them. ... She becomes a newspaper writer and begins labor organizing through unskilled workers. 1500 people came to LA in 1938 as a congress of Spanish speakers. ...
Cartoons in Newspapers and posters, such as those by Septimus Scott, advertised that women were doing their bit.6 This is an example of improved attitudes towards women during the war. ... However the suffrage movement benefited also from the military tactics adopted by the suffragettes and therefore significantly had a prominent influence prior to the war.20 The suffragettes (WSPU) campaigned for the right to vote, they held meetings, produced pamphlets, and some smashed windows, cut telephone wires and chained themselves to railings.21 There has been a steady debate with regards to the suff...