TWOMN 347: History of Women in the United States
Basic Information Named for her mother, Lucy Gwynne Branham was born April 29th, 1892 in Kempsville, Virginia to passionate suffragist Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham and assistant surgeon father Dr. John W. Branham. After facing familial hardship, the elder Lucy settled herself and her two children in Baltimore, Maryland. A history major, the younger Lucy earned…
Basic Information The Culture of Domesticity, or “Cult of Domesticity” for short, was a value system that was influential to the upper and middle class during the 19th century (Keister, 2011, p. 228). It is important to note that Black and immigrant women were often excluded from the Cult of Domesticity, and the culture demanded…
Basic Information Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22nd, 1823. Higginson lived to the age of 87 and died on May 9th, 1911. Higginson conducted most of his work near his home in Massachusetts, and was married twice in his life, raising three children in total, including one that was adopted.…
Basic Information Maria Guadalupe Evangelina de Lopez was born in 1881, in her family home at Los Angeles, in San Gabriel. in city. De Lopez and her younger sister Ernestina operated a Spanish-language school at their house, Casa Vieja, in San Gabriel. Maria de Lopez also taught at the UCLA and University of California and…
Basic Information Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, an American, was a woman’s rights activist, an educator, journalist/editor, and a nurse. She is best renowned for her engagement in the women’s suffrage campaign and her support for the United States Sanitary Commission in the American Civil War (1861–1865). Background Information Livermore was born in Boston, Massachusetts…
Basic information Eugene V Debs was born on the 5th of November,1855 in Terre Haute Indiana. Debs was a charismatic man with great skills for public speaking, organizing, and funding. He used these skills to aid for formation of unions within railroad workers, and other…
Basic Information Jovita Idar was a teacher, journalist, civil rights activist, nurse, and suffragist. Idar boldly spoke out about the injustices facing Tejanos during the early 1900s. Jovita Idar was born on September 7, 1885 in the borderland of Laredo, Texas. Idar was the second of…
Basic Information On September 11th, 1853, populist Mary Elizabeth Lease was born in Ridgeway, Pennsylvania. Lease went on to become recognized as the first woman in American politics, contesting the societal belief that women are “deemed unimportant and unwanted” (Paup, 2012, p. 58) in the political…