Examines the everyday activism and achievements of four generations of Black Arkansas women to cultivate and embrace homemade citizenship in their words and deeds while facing white aggression within the historical context of slavery, reconstruction, Black Codes, and Jim Crow.
Menstruation is a natural and biological process. It’s time we stop shaming women for it.
RWSA’s Africa Chapter sponsored lectures, interactive sessions, and counseling and distributed sanitary towels to empower adolescent girls.
RWSA endorses @AgHistorySoc statement on COVID-19 and Police Violence #COVID-19 #ruralwomen
Marie Bottineau Baldwin was both a suffragist and Native American rights activist. She sought to educate people about women’s traditional political rights in Native society.
How can we connect rural grocers and farmers to overcome food deserts?
In Missouri, rural women themselves played an important role in the suffrage movement.
Pike exemplifies the underexplored activism of Black rural Arkansas women.
Civic responsibility combined with wartime nativist hysteria to give midwestern women the right to vote.