Topics+for+Consideration

How to choose our women?
-Do they answer the essential question? How well? To what extent? -Scenario - functional reason to have each women present (wide array of stories, varieties of answer) -Is it a wide cross section? Economically? Socially?

Other women can enter the picture through the lens of the core women (reference what they know others are doing in different places)

Latina Women
Josefina Maria Gertrudis "La Tules" Barcelo (1800-1852) Eulalia Francesca y Josepha Callis de Fages (1758-?) Ana Maria del Carmen Calvillo (1765-1856) Josefa de Fitch Carrillo (1810-1893) Patricia de la Garza (177?-1850) Eulalia Perez (179? - ????) Josefa "Chepita" Rodriguez (?-1863)

African American
Maritcha Remond Lyons (May 23, 1848) Part of family-owned hotel business.

From Slavery in New York Catherine Ferguson (late 1700s died in 1854) Began a Sunday school that may have been the first one in Manhattan. Was she a baker too? Mary (1809-?) Given her freedom in court. May have stayed with Catherine Ferguson.

Ellen Curtis Demorest (1824-1898) Built a New York fashion empire with her husband, William Jennings Demorest.

Emma Hart Willard (1787-18700 Opened the first girls school in 1814. Her Female Seminary in Troy, NY, opened in 1821.

Arts
Bonne [|Lilly Martin Spencer] Painter

Medical - Reproductive Freedom
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Business Women Albany
Ms. A. Hunt Margaret Kirkpatrick Katherine & Eliza O'Sullivan

Suffragist
Esther Morris

Native American
Bonnie [|Inspiring Women's Rights - The Oneida Indian Nation]