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The Votes For Women History Trail, created as part of the federal Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, is administered by the Department of the Interior through the Women's Rights National Historical Park. The Trail is an automobile route that links sites throughout upstate New York important to the establishment of women's suffrage.
The National Park System preserves and interprets the history of women in American society. Many national parks, monuments and historic sites represent America's women's history as a primary theme, while numerous others address American women's history somewhere in their programs and preservation activities.
Among the women who held leadership and upper-level management positions within the National Park Service, or had a strong influence on National Park Service policy or gender relations, are: Park rangers. Enid Michael, first ranger-naturalist in Yosemite and the first female ranger in the National Parks system, 1921-1942
Pages in category "Women's Rights National Historical Park" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
John Debo - Was the superintendent for Cuyahoga Valley National Park from 1988 to 2009. Since the site's creation in the year 2000, he was also the superintendent for the First Ladies National Historic Site. Craig Kenkel - After John Debo's retirement from the superintendent position, it would be another five years before the position would be ...
Heather A. Huyck, Women's History: Sites and Resources (University of Illinois Press, 2010). Polly Welts Kaufman, National Parks And the Woman's Voice: A History (University of New Mexico Press, 2006), xxii. Edward T. Linenthal, "The National Park Service and Civic Engagement," Vol 28 No 1 The Public Historian (Winter 2006), 123-29.
Women's organizations, including the National Women's History Alliance, campaigned yearly to recognize Women's History Week. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 Women's ...
National Park Service. Women's Rights. Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, July 19–20, 1848; Library of Congress. Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19th and 20th, 1848; Text of the "Declaration of Sentiments", and the resolutions; Seneca Falls in 1848, National Park Service: Women's Rights