Learning Target:

I can give examples of how the achievements of women have made contributions to our local community.​

Women's Rights

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• Author from England who moved to Raleigh

• ​First woman to publish a book in North Carolina in 1804

Winifred Gales

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• First black woman to graduate college with a 4 year degree

• She was born into slavery in Raleigh​

• Her father purchased their freedom and moved them north​

• After college, she began to teach at the first black public high school in Washington DC​

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Mary Jane Patterson

Scotia Seminary

1867​

First school for newly freed black women

The State Normal and Industrial School for Women: 1891

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Today we know it as

UNC Greensboro! ​

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Women's Suffrage

Suffrage means the right to vote

North Carolina Movement

November 15, 1894

• Helen Morris Lewis organized a meeting in support of women's suffrage in Asheville, North Carolina.

• A week later, the North Carolina Equal Suffrage Ass​ociation was formed!

• It did not last long, unfortunately​

• Gertrude Weil started it back up in Charlotte, NC

• Many people fought it - even other women!​

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1913

Women's Suffrage Movement is Revived!​

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