It Didn’t End with Brown v. Board: The Uphill Battle for School Desegregation
After the landmark Brown v. Board civil rights case, many schools struggled with the adjustment to desegregation — and some states even tried to write laws around it. AAUW member Guion Griffis Johnson played a crucial role in desegregating North Carolina’s schools. Read more »
Voucher Schools Provide Choice, Except When They Don’t
Pro-voucher groups mobilize at this time every year, rallying around what they call National School Choice Week, to once again try to pull the wool over our eyes and convince us that “school choice” is better than quality public education for all. Read more »
What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court This Term?
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a number of cases that will significantly impact the rights of women and girls. Read more »
Rebuilding the Voting Rights Act
Tomorrow is National Voter Registration Day, when citizens are urged to update their voter registration so they can be heard in future elections. Yet after the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, the future of many Americans’ voting rights is far from clear. Read more »
Race, Art, and Activism: Faith Ringgold’s Inspiring Journey
The now 82-year-old Ringgold was a political and feminist artist long before these themes were a part of the mainstream landscape of black artists, and she was also one of the first women to organize and fight to get the works of African American and women artists into museums and galleries. Read more »
Yearning for a Unified Society in 1960s America
I am a child of the 1970s, so regrettably I have no personal recollections to offer on the previous decade, but I am fascinated by 1963. The year was a […] Read more »
3 (or 4) Ways to Be a Suffragette on Women’s Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day marks the anniversary of when the 19th Amendment was ratified. Celebrating our right to vote isn’t enough. Read more »
Engineer Took All the Right Steps But Still Didn’t Receive Fair Pay
I was a divorced mother of two when I began pursuing an engineering degree in 1982. I had to overcome many obstacles such as an overwhelming male majority in the field, time management constraints, child care dilemmas, and finding a balance between motherhood and being a student. However, there was one obstacle I couldn’t overcome — pay inequity. Read more »
How Does Your School District Score on Bullying and Harassment?
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will ask schools to report how many students were bullied because of sexual orientation. Read more »
Our Thoughts on What’s Happening at the Supreme Court
We’ve compiled a list of major decisions from this Supreme Court term and analyzed their impact on AAUW’s public policy priorities. Read more »
