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Motherhood and women’s activism

Motherhood and women’s activism. History Is Central Summer Institute June 2006. Protesting the murder of Emmett Till, 1955. Women Strike for Peace - protesting the Vietnam War. Flint auto strike, 1936. Mothers protesting desegregation, Baltimore, 1954.

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Motherhood and women’s activism

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  1. Motherhood and women’s activism History Is Central Summer Institute June 2006

  2. Protesting the murder of Emmett Till, 1955 Women Strike for Peace - protesting the Vietnam War Flint auto strike, 1936 Mothers protesting desegregation, Baltimore, 1954 Mothers’ Crusade against Lend-Lease, Feb. 1941 Many different causes

  3. Social movements • Identities • Resources • Networks (internal/external) • How might these apply to the 1917 food protests in NYC? Meat protest, 1945 (NYC)

  4. Mobilizing mothers 19c Women’s clubs • Types of activities? • Vision of government, public responsibility? Buffalo Woman’s Club, 1910 The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (Privately published, Chicago, IL, 1922) pp. 98

  5. Separatism as Strategy: Women’s organizations • YWCA • National Consumers League • National Congress of Mothers WCA, Hartford After work, Baltimore YWCA (1919) Leaders of the National Congress of Mothers, 1897

  6. Settlement Houses Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods (http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/index.htm)

  7. Civic housekeeping “Women’s place is Home. But Home is not contained within the four walls of an individual house. Home is the community. The city full of people is the Family. And badly do the Home and Family need Mother.” - Rheta Dorr (journalist and suffragist)

  8. Suffrage card, National Women’s History Museum Cartoon portraying Rudolph Blankenburg of Philadelphia as urban reformer, 1896/1911

  9. A Vote for Mother “For the safety of the Nation To the Women Give the Vote For the hand that Rocks the Cradle
 Will Never Rock the Boat!” Banner carried by NAWSA, 1916 parade in Chicago (WI State Historical Society) National Women’s History Museum, www.nwhm.org

  10. Creating the Children’s Bureau, 1912 “to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people.” Julia Lathrop (Library of Congress)

  11. Protesting working conditions - The Women’s Trade Union League, 1908 "$acred Motherhood" was created in 1908 by Chicago Daily News cartoonist Luther Bradley for exhibition at a joint conference of the Women's Trade Union League and the Chicago Federation of Labor..Artist: Luther BradleySource: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37917) http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/11224.html

  12. Muller v. Oregon (1908) Blondie: The Night Shift,” 1933 (Library of Congress)

  13. Day Nurseries • How was child care shaped by ideas about motherhood?

  14. Sources and questions • Annual reports of day nurseries • Organizational records • Case records on families • Records of other agencies • Newspaper clippings

  15. Local connections: CT State Library/CT Historical Society • General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Connecticut • College Club of Hartford • Northwest Child Welfare Club • Hartford Women’s Club, 1890-1923 • CT Woman Suffrage Association, 1869-1921 • CT Valley Kindergarten Association, 1895-1940 • Goodwill Club of Hartford • Hartford Maternal Milk Station • National Popular Education Board, 1845-1855 (letters of women sent West as teachers)

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