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Bookmark or Share- The women who joined the WAC did more than “free a man to fight”During World War II, some 350,000 women served in the U.S. military, and around 150,000 of them served in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), later the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). Created in May 1942, the WAAC was the first unit to allow women to take on military roles in the U.S. Army other than nursing.
- Women in World War I | National Museum of American HistoryWomen in Military Service for America. "Women in World War I," Reforming Their World: Women in the Progressive Era, National Women's History Museum. "Women in wartime," Australian Stories, Australian Government. 1 Barton C. Hacker, “Women and Military Institutions in Early Modern Europe: A Reconnaissance,” Signs 6, no. 4 (Summer 1981): 644.
- Lobbying - National Museum of American HistoryLobbying for Women's Rights. In the 1890s it was said that you would know that spring had arrived in Washington when Susan B. Anthony in her red shawl was seen in the Capitol advocating for women’s rights. “The Marble Room in the Senate wing of the Capitol at Washington is peculiarly the haunt of the professional female lobbyist. ….
- The National Woman Suffrage Parade, 1913On March 3, 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote. Their “national procession,” staged the day before Woodrow Wilson’s presidential inauguration, was the first civil rights parade to use the nation’s capital as a backdrop, underscoring the national importance of their cause and women’s identity as American citizens.
- How women's history and civil rights first came to the SmithsonianOn August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote finally became part of the United States Constitution. The Smithsonian's Annual Report for that same year reported NAWSA's gift of "mementoes of Susan B. Anthony and objects illustrating the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States from 1848 to 1919."
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