Political Archive

  • At the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, seven men and two women walked into a Selective Service office in Catonsville, Maryland. Moving past stunned clerical workers, the activists...

    Heroes for my Daughter: The Catonsville Nine

    At the height of the Vietnam War in 1968, seven men and two women walked into a Selective Service office in Catonsville, Maryland. Moving past stunned clerical workers, the activists...

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  • From 1969 until the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, Jane counseled women about abortion and helped gain access to underground abortion providers.  Jane initially sought to...

    Heroes for My Daughter: The Jane Collective

    From 1969 until the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, Jane counseled women about abortion and helped gain access to underground abortion providers.  Jane initially sought to...

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  • Today marks the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In 1848, a group of people came together in Seneca Falls, NY and wrote the...

    Heroes for My Daughter: Alice Paul and the National Womens Party

    Today marks the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In 1848, a group of people came together in Seneca Falls, NY and wrote the...

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  • Born in New Mexico in 1930, Dolores Huerta’s parents divorced when she was 3 years old.  Her mother moved the family to Stockton, California.  There Dolores and her two brothers...

    Heroes for My Daughter: Delores Huerta

    Born in New Mexico in 1930, Dolores Huerta’s parents divorced when she was 3 years old.  Her mother moved the family to Stockton, California.  There Dolores and her two brothers...

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  • When I first met Bonnie Tinker she was coming out of jail. I was legal observing for a large anti-war march where she and her son had been arrested. Her...

    Heroes for My Daughter: Bonnie Tinker

    When I first met Bonnie Tinker she was coming out of jail. I was legal observing for a large anti-war march where she and her son had been arrested. Her...

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  • We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand.

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