Winifred Conkling

"For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes even broke the law--for more than eight decades. From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention,...

Documents the events of the 1848 escape attempt by Emily Edmonson, her siblings and dozens of other enslaved people on board the Pearl, discussing the contributions made by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily's subsequent education and her history-changing teaching career.

Encuentre información esencial sobre cientos de vitaminas, hierbas y suplementos. ¿Qué ayuda a mejorar la Vitamina e y cuanta cantidad debo tomar? La vitamina E ayuda a prevenir las enfermedades cardíacas y a tratar el acné. Los adultos deben tomar entre 100 y 400 IU de vitamina E natural al día. ¡Encuentre tratamientos con vitaminas, hierbas y suplementos para cientos de enfermedades! ¿Sufre de migrañas? Vea Magnesio: Existe mucha evidencia...

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.

Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).

Presents the untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.