Women in Politics and at Work

GRADES 5 THROUGH 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"Let Women Vote!"
Jersey Journeys (March 1998).
New Jersey Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ 07102.
Phone: (973)596-8500

Audio and Video

The Mighty Humble Blueberry
A documentary film produced by Nancy O'Mallon, Winner of the Garden State Film Festival Best Homegrown Short, 2007.
www.aboutblueberries.com

Internet Sites

Elizabeth C. White of Whitesbog
http://www.whitesbog.org/elizabethwhite2.html

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"Reformers and Crusaders"
(Equal Rights for All, On the Picket Line, Women's Clubs, Education for Women, Charity and Social Work, Suffrage Campaign)
pp. 57-82. In New Jersey Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. New Jersey History Series. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.

"Politics, Wages, and Equality"
(The Twenties, Social Feminism, the Depression, World War II, Equal Rights, Recovery and Feminism Renewed, Feminization of Poverty)
pp. 82-105. In New Jersey Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. New Jersey History Series. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.

"Women Standing for Women: The Early Political Career of Mary T. Norton"
pp. 371-392. In A New Jersey Anthology
Edited and compiled by Maxine N. Lurie.
Gary Mitchell. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1994.

Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women
by the Women's Project of New Jersey. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Alice Stokes Paul, pp. 177-180.
Elizabeth Coleman White, pp. 29-211.
Virginia Apgar, pp. 227-229.
Marie Katzenbach, pp. 333-335.
Mary Norton, pp. 368-370.

Audio and Video

Alice Paul: Crusader for Equality
A television documentary produced by New Jersey Network, 1990.

The Progressive Banner,
Program 9 in the New Jersey Legacy television series. Co-produced by NJN Public Television and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 2003.

"America is a Man's World Too"(Streaming Audio)
America, the Dream of My Life, three-half hour radio documentaries. Co-produced by WBGO and the New Jersey Historical Commission.www.talkinghistory.org/cohen.html Scroll down to "America, the Dream of My Life"

Online Lectures

Delight Dodyk, "Woman Suffrage and the Progressives: the New Jersey Connection"
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Progressive Era"
Click on "Woman Suffrage"
Click on "Online Lecture-Delight Dodyk"

Barbara Petrick, "New Jersey Settlement Houses and Urban Reform"
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Progressive Era"
Click on "Municipal Reform"
Click on "Online Lecture-Barbara Petrick"

Documents

"America is a Man's World, Too,"
pp. 190-194. In America the Dream of My Life: Selections from the Federal Writers' Project's New Jersey Ethnic Survey
Edited by David Steven Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Words That Make New Jersey History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Sexual Harassment in Vineland (1907), pp. 179-180.
Vote For the Woman Suffrage Amendment (c. 1915), pp. 198-200.
Regulating Female Employment (1923), p. 215.
The National Woman's Party in New Jersey (1925), pp. 216-218.
Radical Feminists Protest Miss America (1968), pp. 270-272.

Report on Women's Work in New Jersey, 1887
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_4/barry.htm

New Jersey Woman Suffrage Amendment, 1915
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_4/counties.htm

Pioneer Suffragist Casts GOP Ballot, 1920
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_4/womenvoters.htm

Minutes of the First Meeting of the League of Women Voters
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_4/minutes.htm

What the Home Town Thinks of Alice Paul, 1919
"Well, Boys, We Saved the Home," 1915
Suffragists in Ballet Parade"
Leaflets of the New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1915
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Progressive Era"
Click on "Woman Suffrage"
Click on "Classroom Activity-Documents"

Internet Sites

Electronic New Jersey
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/
Click on "Women's Suffrage"

New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Progressive Era"
Click on "Woman Suffrage"
Or click on "Interactive Feature: Alice Paul's Attic"

New Jersey Women's History Webpage
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/