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Dorothea Lynde Dix advocated for reforms in the treatment of the mentally ill. Her advocacy and research resulted in the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum being built in Trenton in 1848. This was the first such care facility in the state, and was considered a model for the humane care of those with mental illness. |
Dorothea Dix, Forgotten Samaritan by
This study which began as an inquiry into the movement for reform in the care and treatment of the mentally ill, has resolved itself into a biography of Dorothea Lynde Dix, humanitarian and reformer. To separate the woman and the movement had its greatest inspiration and impetus; in the movement the woman lived and had her being. To tell of one is to tell of the other, but the story is one that is not frequently told. The present age has come to take its institutions for the mentally ill for granted and does not inquire of the days preceding the modern psychopathic hospital. In this tendency to accept institutional care without question, the name of Dorothea Dix has been all but lost to posterity.
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In a partnership with Massachusetts businessman Hezekiah Bradley Smith, Agnes Gilkerson Smith transformed the town of Shreveville in Burlington County to Smithville. Focusing on principles developed during early labor movements in Europe, Smithville became a model workers village. There was a focus on the physical, intellectual and spiritual needs and development of workers. As a result, Smithville offered an opera house, public park and bandstand, Lyceum, school and perhaps most importantly, a library. Smith served as editor of national publication The New Jersey Mechanic, which covered areas beyond mechanics, such as travel, literature, medicine, and philosophy. |
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Mary Van Meter Grice was a Riverton resident for over 20 years. During that time she made multiple significant contributions to children’s education on a state and local level. Grice was a founding member and first president of The Porch Club, which became involved in many educational endeavors in Riverton, such as the towns first kindergarten. Grice was the first female member of the Riverton school board and was imperative in the organization of a state wide meeting of mothers interested in education – which later became The New Jersey State Congress of Mothers. This later became the State Parent Teacher Association, or PTA. |
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Described as a “little girl from New Jersey” Elisabeth “Bessie” Holmes Moore from Ridgewood became the first player to win the United States Women’s Singles lawn-tennis championship four time. (1896, 1901, 1903, and 1905). This total has only been exceeded by four other players in tennis history. Moore also won the 1896 U.S. Doubles Championship, the 1903 crown, and the U.S. Mixed Doubles of 1902 and 1904. In 1907, she won the first U.S. Indoor Women’s Singles Championship. Her professional success led to her being elected into the nation Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame posthumously in 1971. |
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Born in Mount Laurel, Alice Paul was a prominent suffragette, feminist, and women's right activist. She was considered one of the main leaders in the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment; which has been ratified across the majority of the United States. |
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Alice Paul redirected the course of American political history. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and, in the next seven years, dominated that campaign and drove it to victory with bold, controversial action-wedding courage with resourcefulness and self-mastery.This riveting account of Paul's early years and suffrage activism offers fresh insight into her private persona and public image, examining for the first time the sources of Paul's ambition and the growth of her political consciousness. Though many historians regard her Quaker upbringing as the greatest influence in her commitment to women's rights, J. D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry explore the ways in which her political zeal developed out of years of education, as well as from her early involvement with British suffragists Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. These two women helped to hone Paul's instincts and skills, which equipped her for later dealings with two important political adversaries, Woodrow Wilson and rival suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt.Using oral history interviews and the rich trove of Paul's correspondence, Zahniser and Fry substantially revise our understanding Paul's role in the suffrage movement. This compelling biography analyzes Paul's charisma and leadership qualities, sheds new light on her life and work, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the woman suffrage movement, particularly as the American centennial of the women's vote approaches.
Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign by
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence. Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather than avoid discussion of Paul's imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding, the authors divulge the strategies she employed in her campaign. Paul's controversial approach, the authors assert, was essential in changing American attitudes toward suffrage.
Two Paths to Equality : Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the ERA Debate, 1921-1929 by
In Two Paths to Equality, Amy E. Butler provides a fascinating portrait of two of the major adversaries in the 1920s' battle over equal rights legislation for women in the United States--Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith. While they shared the goal of full political and legal equality for women, they differed on how best to achieve it. Paul, the author of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and leader of the National Woman's Party, fought to establish that women were the same as men under the law. Smith, legislative secretary of the National Women's Trade Union League and a recognized leader of the opposition to the ERA, believed the ERA did not adequately consider the impact of class and economic differences in women's lives and consequently would sacrifice the interests of one group of women to another. Smith and Paul's conflict is a telling story of the inextricable relationship between personal politics, collective action, and the intersection of law and culture on the social construction of gender. Comparing their perspectives on equality creates a new understanding of the people and issues at stake in the ERA debate.
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Sara Spencer Washington founded Apex News and Hair Company in Atlantic City in 1919. Prior to this, she had studied hairdressing, and had run her own business. She is considered a pioneer in promotional marketing and established a communication department that encouraged African-American Organizations for support African-American Businesses. Sara Spencer Washington also spent several years as a Atlantic County Committeewoman. She was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, president of Northside Business and Professional Women’s Club, and the chair of the Industrial Department of the New Jersey State Federation of Colored Woman’s Club. During World War II, Washington served as secretary and treasurer of the New Jersey Welfare Commission on the Conditions of the Urban Colored Population. |
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Because of her Japanese-American heritage, Mary Yamashita Nagao was interned at the Mazanar Relocation Center in Owens Valley, California under Executive Order 9066. Nagao found work as a social worker and liaison between the interned and camp authorities. This event started Nagao towards a life of advocating for minority rights, particularly in Japanese-American affairs. Towards the end of the war, Nagao and her family relocated the Upper Deerfield Township for work at Seabrook Farms. Nagao became production firewoman and a union representative for the Amalgamated Food and Meat Cutters’ Union, Local No. 56, which represented frozen food and cannery workers in southern New Jersey. Many of those represented by Nagao were immigrants. Later in her career, she worked in the Cumberland County Clerks office, served on the Atlantic Electric Company Roundtable Committee and served on the volunteer advisory board of the Retired Senior Voluntary Program and was president of the Japanese American Citizens League. This organization later awarded her the Silver Pin for her contributions in New Jersey. In 1984, Nagao received the Outstanding Senior Citizen Award from Governor Thomas Kean for “leadership, guidance and efforts on behalf of the Elderly Population of New Jersey.”. The same year, Nagao and her husband were recognized as Outstanding Citizens of Cumberland County. |
Remarkable New Jersey Women by
This book presents the biographies of ten amazing women from the history of the Lone Star State, including African-American pilot Bessie Coleman, silent film star and night club entertainer "Texas" Guinan, and rancher Molly Dyer Goodnight.
Here are some places in located in New Jersey that are important to Women's history, state history and national history. Some sites are closed to the public and can only be viewed from outside.
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Judy Blume was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and attended Battin High School. She is best known for her young adult books; such as Are You There God? Its Me, Margaret., Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Blubber, and Tiger Eyes. Some of these books have been banned, due to the nature of the issues discussed in the novels. Despite this, Blume continues to writ to help young people cope with the difficulties of growing up. She has won many awards for her books, and has been named to the Library of Congress’s Living Legends |
Summer Sisters by
No writer captures the seasons of our lives better than Judy Blume. Now, from theNew York Timesbestselling author ofWifeyandSmart Women,comes an extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening--an unforgettable story of two women, two families, and the friendships that shape a lifetime. When Victoria Leonard answers the phone in her Manhattan office, Caitlin's voice catches her by surprise. Vix hasn't talked to her oldest friend in months. Caitlin's news takes her breath away--and Vix is transported back in time, back to the moment she and Caitlin Somers first met, back to the casual betrayals and whispered confessions of their long, complicated friendship, back to the magical island where two friends became summer sisters. Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the heart of the unruly Somers family, into a world of privilege, adventure, and sexual daring. Vix's bond with her summer family forever reshapes her ties to her own, opening doors to opportunities she had never imagined--until the summer she falls passionately in love. Then, in one shattering moment on a moonswept Vineyard beach, everything changes, exposing a dark undercurrent in her extraordinary friendship with Caitlin that will haunt them through the years. As their story carries us from Santa Fe to Martha's Vineyard, from New York to Venice, we come to know the men and women who shape their lives. And as we follow the two women on the paths they each choose, we wait for the inevitable reckoning to be made in the fine spaces between friendship and betrayal, between love and freedom. Summer Sistersis a riveting exploration of the choices that define our lives, of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and those we struggle to create. For every woman who has ever had a friend too dangerous to forgive and too essential to forget,Summer Sisterswill glue you to every page, reading and remembering. Judy Blume's twenty-one books have sold over sixty-five million copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty languages. She spends summers on Martha's Vineyard with her family.
Joyce Carol Oates is an award winning author and professor at Princeton University. She began her tenure at Princeton in 1978; and heads the creative writing department to this day. She has received numerous awards for her achievements in writing. The scope of her work is prolific, with 56 novels, over 30 collections of short stories, 8 poetry volumes, and uncountable nonfiction works, such as essays and book reviews on various subjects.
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Going beyond typical approaches to developing and administering sponsored projects, the authors build a compelling case for new perspectives and techniques which are uniquely relevant to today's fast-paced Information Age. This work functions as both a theoretical treatise and a desk-top handbook by integrating systems thinking, information management, boundary spanning, contingency management, and strategic planning into an effective and flexible model for both the public and private sectors. It assesses the various factors to take into account when applying the model in different organizational settings and outlines the various steps in initiating a project and bringing it to completion. The authors also further unify the technical work and human dimensions of their model by incorporating it with emerging concepts of organization culture.
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost writers of the short story. In 1962, 'The Fine White Mist of Winter, ' composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year.
