women and the fight for reform
Title: women and the fight for reform
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women and the fight for reform
Women in the late 19th century, except in the few western
states where they could vote, were denied much of a role in the
governing process. Nonetheless, educated the middle-class women
saw themselves as a morally uplifting force and went on to be reformers.
Jane Addams opened the social settlement of Hull House in
1889. It offered an array of services to help the poor deal with
slum housing, disease, crowding, jobless, infant mortality, and
environmental …
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showed last 75 words of 543 total…else, Ida B. Wells exposed lynchings as
a crime against humanity. er 40 years of unrelenting effort
failed to stop the crime and did not produce a federal anti
lynching law. However, lynchings decreased by 80 percent after
her campaign began, and her documented evidence on the crime of
lynching and her commitment to justice roused the world's
conscience. By the time Wells died in 1931, other women and men
had picked up her touch.
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