May 2011
8 posts
April 2011
15 posts
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Judith Heumann is an internationally recognized disability and civil rights activist.
Her commitment to disability rights stems from her experiences with Polio. She was diagnosed at 18 months of age, and has used a wheelchair for most of her life. As a child she was not allowed to...
March 2011
12 posts
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first women to be ordained as a minister in the United States.
She was born in New York in 1825. She was active in her church as a child, and after becoming a member of the congregation, she begin to preach during Sunday meetings. When she...
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Born in Philadelphia in 1832, Alcott was the daughter of noted transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and his wife Abigail May Alcott, and was the second of four daughters. Eventually moving to Massachusetts, the family socialized with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David...
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Maya Lin was born to Chinese parents who had immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s. As a child, Lin often spent her free time casting bronzes in the foundry at Ohio University, where her father was a dean. Lin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, then...
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Alabama.
She was not born blind and deaf, but contracted an at 19 months that resulted in her disability. After her mother read an account of the successful education of another blind and deaf child, they were put in touch with the Perkins...
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Coretta Scott King was born in Marion, Alabama, the third of four children.
Though her parents were not educated, they were determined that their children would be. To this end, they ended a one room school room and were later bussed to the nearest high school, with King’s mother...
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Gen. Ann Dunwoody was born into a military family, spending time in Germany and Belgium, and graduating from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe American High School. Dunwoody joined the army right out of college, and was directly commissioned into the Women’s Army Corp. ...
During National Women’s History Month we will highlight an influential American woman several times each week.
Carrie Chapman Catt was born in Wisconsin in 1859, and spent her childhood in Charles City, Iowa. After Catt graduated from high school, her father refused to pay for any further education, so she spent a year working to save money for college. As a teacher, she was able to build up...
Combating misuse of parking spots for people with...
The Des Moines Register reports that in the Iowa Legislature, lawmakers are moving forward an amendment to House File 79, which would require holders of disability permits to renew them every 5 years.
Currently, disability placards in Iowa list no expiration dates, names, or license numbers, making it difficult for the state to know when people are abusing the system.
The state transporation...
February 2011
20 posts
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Check out this article in the Des Moines... →
First female leads University of Iowa’s ROTC cadets
WatchThis woman’s story is so compelling. Please watch and share any comments you have.
voicesofsncc:
Penelope Patch, who worked for SNCC in southwest Georgia and Mississippi in the early 1960s, recalls the constant fear experienced by activists in the segregated South. This fear was so powerful that it stayed with Patch for many years after she left the South.
sans power: Iowa wrestler forfeits rather than... →
What do you guys think of this issue?
sanspower:
By LUKE MEREDITH, Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa high school wrestler who was one of the favorites to win his weight class defaulted on his first-round state tournament match rather than face one of the first girls to ever qualify for the event.
Joel Northup, a home-schooled…
“It seems to me there is so much more to the world than the average eye is...”
– Vincent van Gogh
Click here to find Black History Month activity... →
Black History Month activity booklets are available free of charge on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission web page. Go check them out!
http://thisisnotlauren.tumblr.com/post/3313454056 →
Well said.
thisisnotlauren:
“I just don’t agree with this attack against men and the whole idea that there needs to be such intensity about the fact that there will always be such a difference…I just don’t see men as the enemy.”
You cannot disagree with feminism simply because you make the assumption that it is about…
“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they...”
– Story People
Embracing, not fearing diversity in Ames, Iowa →
Ames strives to be a welcoming community, not a community of fear. And most of the residents of Ames were accustomed to the “diversity” inherent in a college town that hosts many international students — people from all over the world subsequently raising their children within the school system and sharing in the experience of strong neighborhoods and an embracing community.
But in recent years,...
