Gil Won-ok, Crusading Victim of Wartime Sex Slavery, Dies at 96
She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, ...
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Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
It was an extraordinary feat given the perils of the 1850 Slave Fugitive Act ... gender equality and the right to vote as a free Black woman for more than 50 years after her work during the Civil War.
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How Women Enlisted as Men to Fight in the Civil War
American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...
Beyond the First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln; a look at all the women in late Abraham Lincoln's life
Abraham Lincoln, celebrated on his 216th birthday, left a significant impact as the 16th President of the US. Not only known ...
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Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery ... as a Civil War spy are less well ...
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Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
It was an extraordinary feat given the perils of the 1850 Slave Fugitive ... to vote as a free Black woman for more than 50 years after her work during the Civil War. Surrounded by friends and ...