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Women

Women

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Women's Rights

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    • Equal rights amendments -- United States
  • There are older sources - see specific women from 2015 History Day
    • Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878
    • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
    • Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907
  • Supreme Court decisions and women's rights : milestones to equality KF4758 .S87 2011   
  • Women's rights on trial : 101 historic trials from Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute cadets  KF220 .F76 1997  
  • Women's rights in the United States : a documentary history HQ1236.5.U6 W68 1994   
  • Public Forum on Women's Rights and Responsibilities : proceedings of a public forum sponsored by the Nevada Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights : [prepared by Gloria A. Lopez and Sally E. James]    FedDoc CR 1.2:W 84/6   
  • Recent developments, new opportunities in civil rights and women's rights : a report of the proceedings of the Western Regional Civil Rights and Women's Rights Conference IV [1977]  FedDocs CR 1.2:D 49   
  • Women's rights almanac / Nancy Gager, editor  HQ1426 .W665   
  • The women's rights movement in the United States, 1848-1970; a bibliography and sourcebook (1972)  Z7964.U49 K75   
  • A short history of women's rights: from the days of Augustus to the present time, with special reference to England and the United States HQ1121 .H4 1971   
  • Women's rights; the suffrage movement in America, 1848-1920, by Olivia Coolidge  JK1896 .C6   
  • "Belonging to the world" : women's rights and American constitutional culture / Sandra F. VanBurkleo  StLib Stacks      KF4758 .V36 2001
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Women in World War II

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Rosie the Riveter- Women in the factories during WWII Books, Documents, etc.

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Rosie the Riveter- Women in the factories during WWII Other Institutions

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WACs Other Institutions

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Women Pilots in WWII

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Women Pilots in WWII Legislation & Timeline

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Women & Revolutionary War

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