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Original Oral Interviews

The WAPUSH team has been collecting original oral interviews with important women's rights activists to put in our proposed curriculum. Check out these interviews below:

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Zoe Nicholson

Zoe Nicholson has been a long time member of the National Organization and a life long activist for numerous civil rights causes including advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, protesting against the Vietnam War and working for the protection of LGBTQ+ rights. Zoe is the author of numerous books and currently works as a historian of Alice Paul

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Mary Lee Sargent

Mary Lee Sargent was a professor of women's studies and is a long time activist for women's rights. In the 1980s, Mary Lee Sargent was at the forefront of the struggle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Mary Lee Sargent pictures with Grassroots Group of Second Class Citizens in the Illinois Statehouse, 1982. Photo courtesy of Mary Lee Sargent

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