Since the advent of the movement, hundreds of thousands of women have marched to the Palace of Congress, many of them wearing green kerchiefs, the symbol of the movement.

Summary Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the antislavery activism of the 1830s ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or minimized in favor of male figures. From organizing boycotts to ...