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Gertrude Weil, member of a wealthy Goldsboro family, was president of North Carolina's Equal Suffrage League in 1920.
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Women, including Raleigh's Mollie Huston Lee, have played an important role in the growth and promotion of libraries and reading in North Carolina.
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Three women share oral histories of their lives working in Stokes and Surry county fields.
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Mary Hilliard Hinton was the leader of North Carolina's anti-suffrage movement. The movement was successful in the state, but the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was eventually ratified, thereby undermining this success.
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Economic opportunity for women in North Carolina has historically been dismal. This status has been changing for some time, however, and women have more opportunities now than ever before.
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Valeria Lynch Lee, a native of Hollister in Halifax County, is the moderator for the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television's Black Issues Forum, a member of the University of NC Board of Governors, and an advocate of philanthropy.
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Nellie Rowe was librarian of the Greensboro Public Library for almost thirty years. Rowe was active in the state and national library associations and served as president of the North Carolina Library Association for two years.
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North Carolinians engaged in heated debate over the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that would have given women the same rights as men. North Carolina legislators voted against ratification of the amendment six times from 1973 to1982.
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Nanye'hi, known to European settlers as Nancy Ward, was a 16th-century Cherokee woman known for her indomitable spirit and her good will toward the colonists. Nanye'hi, from the Cherokee town of Chota, was present at the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785.
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In 1972 the grave of a Native American woman was unearthed in Stokes County by anthropologists from UNC-Chapel Hill. Later, using forensic reconstruction, the Office of State Archaeology and the NC Museum of History re-created the woman's appearance.
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11.The Women of Somerset Place by Sykes, John Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 33 Issue 2, Spring 1994
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Mary Riggs became the mistress of Somerset Place, a large plantation on the shores of Lake Phelps in Washington County, when she married Josiah Collins III. Later, Sarah Rebecca Jones Collins took charge of Somerset after Riggs suffered a stroke.
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