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Some of California's sex workers were indentured Chinese women, economically and socially oppressed Latina women, or kidnapped and enslaved White women. From 1848 to the late 1850s, sex workers experienced an unprecedented decline in power and a rapid fall from grace as more "respectable" women and their families came to California.
White Horse Inn (Oakland, California) Wild Side West; Woman's Club of Lincoln; Woman's Club of Lodi; Woman's Club of Redondo Beach; Woman's Improvement Club Clubhouse; Womanhouse; Women Eco Artists Dialog; Women in the California gold rush; Women in the early East L. A. punk scene; Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County; Women's Center for ...
Women's clubs flourished and turned a spotlight on issues such as public schools, dirt and pollution, and public health. California women were leaders in the temperance movement, moral reform, conservation, public schools, recreation, and other issues. They helped pass the 18th amendment, which established Prohibition in 1920. Initially, women ...
The first ballot measure to propose women's suffrage failed with only 44.6% support [6] [9] The founding of the Woman's Club of Palo Alto. [15] Lillian Harris Coffin; 1899: Black Baptist women created the first woman's club for black women in California, the Fanny Jackson Coppin Club [6] [16]
This is a list of notable California suffragists who were politically active before and during the successful Proposition 4 in 1911 which gave women won the right to vote. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Below is a timeline of key events from before the first blaze broke out. Early warning signs A residence burns as a firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of ...
History of women in California (11 C, 157 P) L. Lesbian culture in California (1 C, 23 P) Women in Los Angeles (5 C, 51 P) M. ... Pages in category "Women in California"