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Library of Congress, Frances Willard, Women's Suffragist, Library of Congress, Unknown

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 –  1898) was an American…

Tags: Consumer Protection, Education, Frances Willard, Unions, Women, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage

Cowan's Auctions, Francis Wayland daguerreotype, Cowan's Auctions, Unknown

A black and white photograph of Francis Wayland, an American educator and president of Brown University. Francis Wayland had always advocated for…

Tags: Education, Francis Wayland, Library, Public Libraries, Slavery

Friends of the Earth Workshop

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries. Friends of the Earth was founded…

Tags: Education, Environment, Friends of the Earth, Organization, San Francisco, Sustainability

Bain News Service, Geo. F. Baker, U.S. Financier and Philanthropist, Library of Congress, Unknown

George Baker has had many buildings named after him, because he used his funds to donate to higher education for those around him. Harvard Business…

Tags: Education, George F. Baker, Philanthropy, Public Service

Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (Artist: Ben Kaplan), Health for Efficiency, Library of Congress, 1936-1941

This poster, sponsored by the Adult Education Project of the Board of Education and WPA, is an advertisement for free courses on "health education."…

Tags: Education, FDR, Federal Arts Project, Health Education, Posters, WPA

Bain News Service, Helen Gould, Army Supporter, Library of Congress, 22 January 1913

You don’t have to be a soldier to help the war effort, and Helen Shepard proved that when she gave $100,000 to the United States government during the…

Tags: Education, Helen Gould Miller Shepard, Military Service, Philanthropy, War, Women

UC Berkeley, Ian Francis Hancock, Advocate and Scholar for Romani, UC Berkeley, 2011

From Wikipedia: Ian Francis Hancock is a linguist, Romani scholar and political advocate. He was born and raised in England and is one of the main…

Tags: Advocate, Education, Human Rights, Romani, Romani People, Scholar

Illinois Association of School Boards, Illinois Association of School Boards, Illinois Association of School Boards, 2006-08

This law requires that school board members, before taking their seats on the board, take an official oath that is in substantially the form presented…

Tags: Education, Illinois, Oath, School Board

Shealah Craighead, INSPIRE Women Act, White House, February 28 2017

The Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers Act (H.R. 321), or INSPIRE Women Act, was introduced by Representative…

Tags: Education, Law, Mentorship, NASA, Science, STEM, US Congress, Women

White House, INSPIRE Women Act, Wikimedia Commons, 2/28/2017

The Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers Act (H.R. 321), or INSPIRE Women Act, was introduced by Representative…

Tags: Congress, Education, Legislation, Science, Women