Transcript Do We Still Need Women’s History Month? Dr. Shelly Lemons and Friends McKendree University Brown Bag.

Do We Still Need Women’s
History Month?
Dr. Shelly Lemons and Friends
McKendree University
Brown Bag
Pop Quiz!!
1. Which mother led a 125–
mile march of child workers all
the way from the textile mills of
Pennsylvania to President
Theodore Roosevelt’s vacation
home on Long Island?
Mary Harris Jones
aka “Mother” Jones
2. One of the most important Union
spies and scouts during the Civil War
was a Black woman who had escaped
from slavery. Can you name her?
Harriet Tubman
aka “The General”
3. The line of beauty products she
created for African Americans
made her the first Black woman
millionaire in the United States.
Who was she?
Madam C.J. Walker
4. She opened Chicago’s Hull House,
a community center to improve
conditions for poor immigrants. Her
name?
Jane Addams
5. She is best known as the original
leader and founder of Third Wave
Feminism, the movement, and the cofounder of the Third Wave Foundation.
She wrote To Be Real, the original
Third Wave primer.
Who is this current leader in the
women’s movement?
Rebecca Walker
Bonus:
A writer and biologist, she touched
off an international controversy
about the environmental effects of
pesticides with her 1962 book, The
Silent Spring. Who is she?
Rachel Carson
Tie Breaker:
Which early 19th century woman
fought her husband and the Shakers
for custody of her children? This
woman eventually secured a divorce—
granted by the state legislature— and
reclaimed her children in 1818.
Eunice Chapman
So…do we still need women’s
history?
Did you get 100% on the quiz?
Well, did you?
National Women’s History Project
www.nwhp.org
www.nwhm.org
What McK students have to say…
HIS 271 and 371
McKendree Young Feminists
http://mckfeministuniversity.tumblr.com/
Engagement and Women’s History
Women in American Politics
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_fac
ts/levels_of_office/Current_Numbers.
php
http://womenincongress.house.gov/