Modern females acknowledge Abigail Adams as an early women’s rights advocate because she urged her husband John, a member of the Continental Congress, to “Remember the Ladies” when drawing up a new code of laws. I choose to admire Adams because she stashed away some cash and labeled it “this money which I call mine.”
Adams [...]

Alice Paul is my second favorite women’s rights hero after Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Still it is only today I learned about the Alice Paul Institute in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
Founded in 1984 to commemorate the centennial of Paul’s 1885 birth and to further her legacy, the organization was operated by volunteers for more than [...]

We don’t have auction blocks in center city anymore, but people are still being enslaved in America–often in plain sight.
Consider the preteen girls from Togo and Ghana, whose families were tricked into thinking they were sending their daughters to the United States for an education and never knew their children were slaves in Newark, N.J. [...]