Introduction In the American civil war, thousands of women were involved as volunteer nurses in different military hospitals and the battle field. Although social taboos prohibited women from working outside their homes, women sought direct and convention involvement in the civil war. They focused on participating in the national struggle and pursuing career opportunities in the military rather than the traditionally confined domestic support roles. Women nurses experienced the detrimental and depressing constants of the civil war, such disease, as mutilated bodies, amputated limbs as well as death. In addition, they offered invaluable aid to the wounded and sick soldiers as well as medical authorities.
The church completed the home in 1908, and Harriet moved there several years later. She spent her last years in the home telling stories of her life to visitors. On March 10, 1913, Harriet died of pneumonia. She was 93 years old. Harriet Tubman was not afraid to fight for freedom and that is what she was best known
The plan consisted of distributing weapons to the slaves and trying to get a rebellion started. Harriet mostly helped John with fundraising but would have been a part of it if she had not been ill at the time. “During one of her last interviews in 1912 she referred to John as one of her dearest friends.”(Women in History 4/18/10) Between 1861 and 1865 Harriet served with the Union army during the Civil War as a laundress, scout, nurse, cook, and spy behind Confederate lines. In 1865, she was caring for the wounded black soldiers as the Matron or senior nurse at the Colored Hospital in Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Even after the war she continued helping others such as raising money for the Freedmen’s School, helping the not so wealthy children, and caring for her
New industries, naval, and army bases were being built during the home front. Women played a huge role in this because if they didn’t stay home and take over for the men, they wouldn’t have the money to raise their families. “Only one in nine of the 45,000 women who signed up were selected for duty overseas” (Suite101) so a large percentage of women stayed back home. The National Selective Service controlled the women and men. They would only make the decisions for them “who could join up and who could not, where they could work, and when they could change jobs.” (Thecanadianencyclopedia) It was a tough life, but it was the only way to support their husbands when their off to war.
The lives of women on the Home Front were greatly affected by World War I The lives of women were greatly affected by the war, mainly in a positive way in the long run. Before the war upper-class women did not work, in contrast working class women worked in professions such as maids or working in factories as a way to provide for their families. Statistics show that as many as 11% of women worked as domestic servants before the war. The war also helped the social status of women dramatically in a positive manner as well as giving women the chance to work in a greater variety of jobs, although after the war they were expected to return to their original traditional housewife role. When the war broke out in August 1914, thousands of women lost their jobs in dressmaking, millenary and jewellery making.
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in 1820, in Dorchester county, Maryland, she was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of bondsmen to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad an elaborate secret network of safe houses. Unbeknownst to many her birth name was Araminta, and she was called Minty until she changed her name to Harriet in her early teen years. Harriet changed her name was because she wanted to be named after her mother who was also named Harriet. Her parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, were enslaved Ashanti Africans who had eleven children, and saw many of there older children get sold into the South.
Nursing was a popular occupation for many women during the Civil War. At least 3,000 women held apid nursing postions in the North and South, and thousands of others worked as volunteers. "The war is certainly ours as well as men's" said Kate Cummings, of Mobile, Alabama, who became the matron of a large Confederate hospital. Authorities were wary of putting young girls in intimate contact with bedridden soldiers. Dorothea Dix, when she became superintendent of Union nurses, set a minimum age of thirty for her volunteers and demanded that they be "plain looking women" As the war went on and theneed for medical assistance became more desperate, Dix ignored her own regulations.
Coming from all walks of life, there were those already working who switched to higher-paying defense jobs, those who had lost their jobs due to the Depression, and then there were the women who worked at home. Rosie the Riveter was the idol for these working women also she was known as the cover girl for the recruiting campaign. By 1944, 16 percent of all working women held jobs in war industries. While an estimated 18 million women worked during the war, there was growing concern among them that when the war was over, it would never be the same again. That new venture for American women would soon come to an end.
She was a philanthropist and political activist. Madam Walker devoted most of her later years to social and political issues. Walker was involved with and made contributions to the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Conference on Lynching, the Indianapolis YMCA, and the National Negro Business League. Walker also sponsored scholarships for women attending the Tuskegee Institute (Felder 307). During World War I, Madam Walker recruited many black soldiers to the military.
Mansfield has a hospital called Desoto Regional has been there since the early 1960s so my parents felt the town was a little secure for my granny just in case she gets sick. After for so long my granny started getting ill she had cancer and the doctors just couldn’t do anything for her anymore. So she went to see her angels on Thursday, April 11, 1999 at LSU Medical Center in Shreveport,LA . Thing wasn’t the same anymore so my parents just moved to from Mansfield to Shreveport,LA and still here