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The first “up from the ranks” labor woman to head an executive department of the Federal Government, Mary Anderson directed the Women’s Bureau for nearly 25 years, leading efforts to win better wages, hours and working condition for women. She served for five presidents and, during her tenure, saw the ranks of women workers more than double.

Source: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection / New York City — Welfare Island

U Warwick Library

Geraldine Aveseraldine Aves (1898-1986) was born into a socially committed family that had traditions of social inquiry on her father’s side and suffragist activism on her grandmother’s.

H Hibi | Japanese American National Museum

BBC | NARA

Avenger pilot Roland Gift relaxes in the USS Monterey after a night landing

Library of Congress | LC-USF34-038466-D

They have bought a farm through the Federal Land Bank after coming to California as migrants and picking cotton at Bakersfield. They say they like California but say their neighbors (old Californians) aren’t very neighborly.

Library of Congress | LC-USF33-T01-000067-M3

The Conversation | G Parks/Gordon Parks Foundation/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Untitled, Chicago, Illinois, 1950.

During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and house themselves and their families. Beyond Brutal Passions is a close study of the women who were accused of marketing sex, their economic and social susceptibilities, and the strategies they employed to resist authority and assert their own agency.