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Interwar Years Lens Project: Social Movements & Protest

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Suffragettes picket in 1917 for their colleagues, including Alice Paul, who were sentenced to sixty days in prison for obstructing traffic while protesting against President Woodrow Wilson in front of the White House.

Suffragettes picket in 1917 for their colleagues, including Alice Paul, who were sentenced to sixty days in prison for obstructing traffic while protesting against President Woodrow Wilson in front of the White House. Gale U.S. History Online Collection.

 

"Scopes Monkey Trial" from West's Encyclopedia of American Law via U.S. History in Context

"Excerpt from Undelivered Address in the Scopes Trial" from World War I and the Jazz Age via U.S. History in Context

"Women of the New Dealfrom Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library via U.S. History in Context

"New Deal City" by Sue Halpern for Mother Jones via U.S. History in Context

"19th Amendment" by Leslie F. Goldstein for The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States via U.S. History in Context

"Prohibition" from U.S. History in Context

"Why Suffrage for American Women Was Not Enough" by Elisabeth Perry in History Today via U.S. History in Context

"Ku Klux Klan Declaration, 1922" from US History Online Collection

Dayton, Tennessee, high school teacher John T. Scopes stands in a courtroom (second from left) during his trial in 1925. He was accused of teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution in his science class, in spite of a law that banned the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. The case came to be known as the Scopes Monkey Trial.

"John Scopes in Courtroom during Evolution Trial." Gale U.S. History Online Collection, Gale, 1925.

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