A gallery of photos to explore.
This project, directed by Peter Cole of Western Illinois University and Franklin N. Cosey-Gay of the hicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, is working to document and commemorate the 1919 riot with an online exhibit that includes biographies of those killed. Visit site
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
The Lawrence Textile Strike was a public protest mainly of immigrant workers from several countries, including Austria, Belgium, Cuba, Canada, France, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Syria, and Turkey. According to the 1910 census, 65% of mill workers (many of whom eventually struck) lived in the United States for less than 10 years; 47% for less than five years.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women’s history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the collection seeks to advance scholarly…
Created by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, HERB is a database of primary documents, classroom activities, and other teaching materials in U.S. history. Named in honor of ASHP/CML’s co-founder, labor historian Herbert…
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
This multi-media web site brings the vital history of Seattle’s civil rights movements to life with scores of video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies, more than 300 pages in all. Based at the University of Washington, the Seattle…
