Successful women
This 1990 U.S. Army recruiting poster was part of the successful “Army, Be all you can be” marketing campaign. The young woman is wearing an aviation flight helmet.
Suffragettes offer their aid
Suffragettes stand in line to show their willingness to aid their country in 1917 when hostilities broke out between Germany and the United States. In 1918 President...
Summer job
High school and college-age students, like this young waitress working in a drive in snack bar in Rifle, Colorado, in July 1973 often seek employment in the service...
Tennessee approves
This is a statement, signed by the Governor of Tennessee in 1920, verifying that the state legislature ratified the 19th Amendment proposed by the U.S. Congress....
The 19th Amendment
This Congressional resolution, which proposed extending the right to vote to women, became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state...
“The most dangerous type of work”
In this formally classified memo to President Harry S. Truman, William J. Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services, informs the President that the...
The seat in question
This diagram shows where Rosa Parks was sitting when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. It was an exhibit in the Browder v. Gayle court case, which...