American National Biography: Alice Paul

The United States has a long tradition of civil disobedience. Before the protests of 2020, before the protests against the Vietnam War, before the Civil Rights protests of the 1960s, were the protests of the Suffrage Movement. Viewers of...

This site provides a detailed biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist leader and peace activist during the early 1900s.

Biography of Samuel C. Armstrong, founder of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute during Reconstruction, to educate African Americans after the Civil War. Hampton is now Hampton University.

This site provides a detailed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the United States, social reformer, politician, and diplomat of the early- to mid-1900s.

A vocal leader of the 20th-century women's suffrage movement, Alice Paul advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment.

Read a detailed biography of Alice Paul, tireless champion for women's suffrage, the 19th amendment, and an Equal Rights Amendment.

This site provides a detailed biography of Lucretia Coffin Mott, abolitionist and feminist during the mid-1800s.

Depressions are sustained troughs in the business cycle characterized by declines in output, employment, income, and trade. While they date from the earliest years of American history, little is known about them from the Colonial Era....

This site provides a detailed biography of Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, organizer of black women and advocate for social justice.

This site provides a detailed biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, woman suffragist and writer of the 1800s.