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Social Reform - More Issues

Women's involvement as individuals and in groups working for social change on issues of child labor, humanitarian aid, mental health, guns, pornography, prostitution, mental health, and more.

Elizabeth Fry
Profile of Elizabeth Fry, reformer of women's prisons, mental asylums, and founder of soup kitchens and homes for the homeless.

Lucy Parsons
A profile of Lucy Parsons, anarchist and socialists who helped found the IWW.

Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 was a ground-breaking law to fund maternity and infant health care.

Child Labor in America (1908-1912)
An issue for many women reformers, child labor is here documented with the photos of Lewis W. Hine.

Andrea Dworkin
Site of best known anti-pornography feminist activist, Andrea Dworkin. Essays, book lists, fiction, and other writings by and about Dworkin's life and work.

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Newly Recovered Lynching Dramas
Article from African American Review, 1999, by Judith Stephens, on her discovery of two play scripts and on the role of lynching plays in social change.

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