Founding Mothers:
And Other Amazing Women from US History
And Other Amazing Women from US History
After escaping slavery herself, she ended up repeating the journey 13 times to rescue about 70 other people from slavery as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War, she served the United States Army as a spy, scout, nurse, and cook. She also helped lead raids on plantations during the Civil War that ended up freeing an additional 700 people who had been enslaved.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
MWEG's sister organization, recognized for quilts and postcards.
What is Women Building Peace?
The statement "To inspire women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and courageously advocate for ethical government" serves this role in MWEG
What is MWEG's mission statement?
Said: "Were it not for our transgression, we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient."
Who is Our Glorious Mother Eve?
Modern research shows that women generally turn out to vote in higher numbers than this other group.
Who are men?
The daughter of an immigrant, this New Yorker left her home state to become one of 9 women out of a class of 500 students at Harvard Law. During her time at Harvard, she cared for her 14-month-old daughter and attended classes for both her and her husband, who was battling cancer while attending Harvard Law along with his wife.
Despite facing gender discrimination in pursuit of her academic goals, this pioneer became the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court, where she fought tirelessly to break gender barriers and fight for gender equality and women's rights.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
MWEG uses this tool to quickly call members to write and send letters to their legislators about important issues - providing background info, prompts, and templates.
What is a Call To Action (CTA)?
To not be defined by party labels; to not work to advance any party interests; to take care to maintain an unbiased approach when representing MWEG; to commit to communicate using language devoid of bias, partisan jargon, and disrespect, to name a few.
Wrote a poem that was turned into a hymn that includes the lyrics: "In the heav’ns are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare! Truth is reason; truth eternal tells me I’ve a mother there."
Who is Eliza R. Snow
Citizens should vote in this smaller election to decide which party candidates will be on the ballot for the general election.
What is a primary election?
This woman's most famous quote is, arguably, "No." Known as the "Mother of the Freedom Movement", this seamstress doubled as a long-time NAACP member who worked on countless cases involving racial injustice and sexual assault. This woman's arrest was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement that brought Martin Luther King Jr. into the limelight. Some believe she refused to move seats because she was tired, but she revealed years later that the only thing she was tired of was "giving in."
Who is Rosa Parks?
Advancing Democracy
Environment
Immigration
Fammily Health & Well-Being
What are MWEG's Areas of Advocacy?
Every human being is endowed with _____ that governments are obligated to protect and not violate.
What are Rights?
Who is Sharon Eubank
This kind of organization uses collective action from volunteers at the local level to implement change at all levels of government; it is associated with bottom-up, rather than top-down decision-making.
What is a grassroots organization?
This First Lady is known for advocacy for women's rights, especially in campaigning for Congress to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. She raised awareness about "taboo" topics at the time, including breast cancer and addiction recovery. When her husband's cabinet "felt that she shouldn't be so outspoken", she simply ignored them, famously stating that she would not "step in the background". She even danced barefoot on the table in the very room where they told her to quiet down.
Who is Betty Ford?
Advocacy focused on (1) safeguarding institutional structures and democratic norms, (2) fair, nonpartisan redistricting, and (3) ethics and accountability in government.
What is Advancing Democracy?
Widely and erroneously believed to encourage us to ignore problems, this principle calls us to bring tensions to the surface and engage in conflict rather than avoid it.
What is Peacemaking?
Said, "Our goal is to learn to speak about anything and everything in a manner that allows the Spirit to be present. If we do, contention will be put away."
Who is Wendy Watson Nelson?
This important amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920, thanks to the work of suffragists.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Secured the 36th vote in Congress that was needed to ratify the 19th Amendment by writing a letter to her son (a congressman who was otherwise planning to vote no), encouraging him to vote on behalf of women's suffrage. She wrote to him: "Hurrah and vote for suffrage and don’t keep them in doubt. Don’t forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt." She then went on to become the first woman to register to vote in her county.
Who is Phoebe "Febb" Ensminger Burn?
Three essential components to include in your letters to your legislators
What are (1) who you're writing to (2) what issue/bill you're writing about, and (3) your name/short bio?
This important duty that all individuals have is highlighted by D&C 88:78, which reads, "Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand".
What is the duty to educate themselves?
(also accepted would be "principle of ethical government")
Said, "Are you willing to engage in the wrestle? In an ongoing spiritual wrestle?...
Spiritual wrestlers are seekers. They are men and women of faith who want to understand more than they presently do and who are serious about increasing the light and knowledge in their lives."
Who is Sheri Dew?
MWEG's principles of ethical government state that "all people have a duty to obey the law. This duty does not, however, preclude the possibility of peaceful protest against and civil disobedience to unjust laws."
Guaranteed by the First Amendment, the name of this constitutional right.
What is the Right to Assembly?