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Women's History is Every Month: American women raised their voices this week. Loudly; Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries; We need a feminism for the 99%. That's why women will strike this year; Women’s March under fire over links to Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, anti-Semitism; Women's History: Continue the Fight for Justice; Betsy DeVos pressed to toss Obama ‘Dear Colleague’ school-discipline directive; Can't Miss Classroom Resources for Women's History Month!;

 

American women raised their voices this week. Loudly.

Opinion | American women raised their voices this week. Loudly.

Opinion | American women raised their voices this week. Loudly. Helaine Olen A lot of things are happening, folks.

Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries

15 Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries   hat tip to Ms. Keyes

Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries www.nytimes.com The poet Sylvia Plath and the novelist Charlotte Brontë. Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist. These extraordinary women — and so many others — did not have obituaries in The New York Times. Until now.

We need a feminism for the 99%. That's why women will strike this year

We need a feminism for the 99%. That's why women will strike this year

We need a feminism for the 99%. That's why women will strike this year Linda Martín Alcoff On 8 March, we will go on strike against gender violence – against the men who commit violence and against the s...

Women’s March under fire over links to Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, anti-Semitism

Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez slammed over Louis Farrakhan links

Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez slamme... The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com Progressives who have never quite cut the cord with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan despite his anti-Semi...

Women's History: Continue the Fight for Justice

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Zinn Education Project News    Source: BlackLivesMatter.org From #MeToo to the Movement for Black Lives to the victorious West Virginia teachers' strike, women continue to be on the front lines fighting for justice.  Below we provide some classroom resources to teach women's history ---- not just for the month of March, but for the entire year. Today, as women are rising up around the world, we need a curriculum that helps us elevate the specific contributions women have made to people's history. In the New York Times, labor journalist Sarah Jaffe wrote about the impact this kind of teaching had on one West Virginia striker: Leah Clay Stone grew up in the shadow of Blair Mountain, the site of the largest of the 1920s West Virginia coalfield labor uprisings. In school, she recalls doing a project on Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother [Jones], the labor agitator. She walked picket lines with her parents, a schoolteacher and a miner, as a child. Along with nearly every other teacher in West Virginia, since Feb. 22, she's been on strike. Source: WikiCommons. Amanda Howard Garvin, an elementary school art teacher in Morgantown, said in the New York Times, "There are a bunch of men sitting in an office right now telling us that we don't deserve anything better." She added that in the wake of Donald Trump's election women across the country are standing up to say: "No. We're equal here." Related Resources The impact women have made in labor history is often missing from textbooks  and the media, despite the numerous roles women have played. From championing better workplace conditions to cutting back the 12-hour day to demanding equal pay across racial lines, these are just a few of the women who have contributed to the labor movement.

Betsy DeVos pressed to toss Obama ‘Dear Colleague’ school-discipline directive

Betsy DeVos pressed to toss Obama ‘Dear Colleague’ school-discipline directive

Betsy DeVos pressed to toss Obama ‘Dear Colleague’ school-discipline dir... The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is coming under renewed pressure to uproot the Obama administration’s lenient sc...

Can't Miss Classroom Resources for Women's History Month!

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WOMENS HISTORY MONTH RESOURCES Upstate, Downstate: The Women's Movement Aligned to the New York State Social Studies Framework for Grade 4, this video and corresponding support materials explore the history of the women’s movement of the 1800s, its connection to abolitionism, and how struggles for women’s rights continue to this day. Click Here for Resource