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This group is for championing education, especially for and about women and girls. Lucy Stone was among the first American women to earn a college degree, and the first to keep her name after marriage.
Website: http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=153
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Latest Activity: Jul 22, 2010
What's a Lucy Stoner?
Lucy attended college at Oberlin for 13 years, working to pay for it along the way until her father finally gave in and helped financially. She was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn her college degree. And like all the early women's rights leaders, she lectured and organized to end slavery in America.
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There was a great film in theaters recently called "An Education," set in 1960's London. A smart young woman faces deciding between a dashing boyfriend and college. Her parents don't really think she…Continue
Started by Louise Vance. Last reply by Murray Suid Jul 19, 2010.
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You can help bring Seneca Falls into more hearts and minds on PBS!
Call your local PBS station this week to see if they plan to air Seneca Falls. Last year, 110 stations broadcast the film.
To find your station(s), type your zip code into this PBS Station Finder. With lots of enthusiasm, send them to our site to view the trailer and see the 2010 PBS broadcast schedule. And tell them you will promote the film among your networks.
Stations can contact louise@senecafallsfilm.org with any needs, and if you find out a broadcast date, please let us know!
California to mandate teaching women's history?
In Seneca Falls,17-year-old Annie tells us, "knowing your history gives you courage." Yet the majority of schools in the U.S. still don't teach about the women's rights movement that began there.
But good news! At our suggestion, the California Women Suffrage Centennial Committee is seeking a legislator to sponsor a bill requiring teaching women's history in the state's schools. If they succeed, California will join Illinois, Florida, and Louisiana – states that have passed laws requiring teaching women’s history in K–12 classrooms.
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