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Women and the American Experience Concise, 2/e
Nancy Woloch, Barnard College

Cross-Currents: The 1920s

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Disenfranchisement of African-American women and the National Women's Party
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/nwp/introduc.htm)

Find links to 23 documents that address the disenfranchisement of African-American women and the National Women's Party in the early 1920s.
Enfranchised Women
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/nysuff/doclist.htm)

Twenty-one original documents discuss the problems newly enfranchised women faced with partisan politics.
Pacifism and Patriotism
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/milit/doclist.htm)

Link to 22 documents that address the conflict between pacifism and patriotism that women's organizations faced in the 1920s.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wilpf/doclist.htm)

Read about how the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom responded to right-wing attacks after World War I.
Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/birth/doclist.htm)

Find links to 27 documents that illustrate the contrasting methods and opinions of Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett, leaders of the birth control movement in the early 20th-century.
Mary Ware Dennett's strategy to legalize birth control
(http://womhist.binghamton.edu/mwd/doclist.htm)

Read 27 original documents that describe Mary Ware Dennett's strategy to legalize birth control.
Margaret Sanger's published articles and speeches advocating birth control
(http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/ms_writings.htm)

Find seven of Margaret Sanger's published articles and speeches advocating birth control.
Margaret Sanger
(http://adh.sc.edu/ms/ms-table.html)

View digital images of five documents arguing for the importance of birth control written by Margaret Sanger.