pt. 1. What next? 1920-1931 --
Address at "Portrait Monument" dedication (February 15, 1921) / Jane Addams (1860-1931) --
The black mammy monument (1923) / Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) --
Talk to young men of Howard University (March 20, 1925) / Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) --
General Federation of women's clubs--Early 1920s, various convention speeches --
Suggested readings, 1920-1932 --
pt. 2. Whose new deal? 1932-1940 --
Campaign issues challenge political parties, "Challenge of the woman voter" (April 26,1932) / Ruth Morgan (ca. 1800-1934) --
Speech to Milk Shed Conference (1933) / Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951) --
Statement by the president of the Birth control league of Massachusetts (January 1935) / Blanche Ames Ames (1878-1969) --
Social insurance for U.S. (February 25, 1935) / Frances Perkins (1880-1965) --
Philadelphia branch of the national woman's party (September 9, 1935) / Anna Kelton Wiley (1877-964) --
What libraries mean to the nation (April 1, 1936) / Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) --
Woman and the future (January 25, 1937) / Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) --
Clarifying our vision with the facts (October 31, 1937) / Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) --
This is my task (March 12, 1939) / Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson (1890-1944) --
General Federation of women's clubs: Lucretia Mott amendment (ERA)(1940): For the amendment / Mrs Helen Robbins Bitterman, Against the amendment / Mrs Laura Hughes Lunde --
Caravans of sorrow (March 3, 1940) / Luisa Moreno (1907-1992) --
Suggested readings, 1932-1940 --
pt. 3. Speaking of war! 1940-1945 --
To the Democratic National Convention, Chicago (July 18, 1940) / Eleanor Roosevelt --
The great democracy of the free (October 24, 1940) / Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) --
The lend-lease bill (February 27, 1941) / Hattie Caraway (1878-1950) --
Address to the liberal-socialist alliance in New York City (December 8, 1941) / Dorothy Day (1897-1980) --
The role of American women in wartime (September 24, 1942) / Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) --
Radio Speeches (February 22, 1942) / Mary Anderson (1872-1964) --
Radio broadcast to nurses (July 1, 1942) / Mary Beard (1876-1946) --
Women's role in winning the war (August 25 and 26, 1942) Ella Reeve Bloor --
Woman and war (1941) / Florence Jaffray Harriman --
American-Soviet friendship (December 9, 1944) /Florence Jeffray Harriman --
Suggested readings, 1940-1945 --
pt. 4. Is that all there is? 1945-1960 --
My democratic credo (March 29, 1946) / Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) --
Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on the equal rights amendment (March 10, 1948) / Mary Church Terrell --
Toward human unity or beyond nationalism (second part) (April 7, 1948) / Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) --
Address to business and professional woman's clubs (January 3, 1949) / Margaret Chase Smith (1898-1995) --
Civil rights and liberties (March 4, 1949) / Maida Springer-Kemp (1910- ) --
Tydings committee testimony (March 14, 1950) / Dorothy Kenyon (1888-1972) --
Women share service for freedom (February 16, 1952) / Margaret M Henderson (1911- ) --
not fear (February 1, 1954) / Justine Wise Polier (1903-1987) --
Standard stump speech (September 20, 1954) / Katie Louchheim (1903-1991) --
Address before the Philadelphia fashion group (February 7, 1955) / Dorothy Shaver (1889-1959) --
Talk at the ILGWU Convention (May 14, 1956) / Fannia Cohn (1885-1962) --
Acceptance of AAUW achievement award (1956) / Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) --
The community and its children (1958) / Martha My Eliot (1891-1978) --
the challenge of the mid-twentieth century (February 12, 1959) / Pauli Murray (1910-1985) --
Suggested readings, 1945-1960.