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The Long Drive for Women’s Suffrage: Using Chronicling America to Explore the Time and Place of an Unfolding Event

Posted by: Danna Bell

One hundred years ago next month, Alice Burke and Nell Richardson began a journey across the United States to promote women’s right to vote. Following their route can allow students to learn about them and their journey while also revealing more about the suffragist movement and women in the United States a century ago.

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The Rosa Parks Papers: A Powerful New Resource for Teachers and Students

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Starting today, the Library has made the Rosa Parks Papers available on its Web site. This collection contains thousands of unique artifacts that shed light on this courageous fighter for social justice. The letters, diaries, notes, photographs, and other documents in this collection, which is on loan to the Library for ten years from the Howard G. Buffet Foundation, provide invaluable insights into her life and thoughts.