TSOCWF 300 History of Social Welfare - Janice Laakso: Getting Started

Women's Suffrage

• Washinton: Crusade in the Northwest - Women of the West museum.
• Milestones in Women's History - Washington State Historical Society
• Women's votes, women's voices: the campaign for equal rights in Washington -Washington State History Museum
  • Book - check catalog for availability
  • Online Exibit - Women's votes, women's voices
• History of Women's Jury Service in Washington  - Washington State Bar News

Eugenics

• Eugenics and Disability: History and Legacy in Washington - Click on Resources in the left column, then select Eugenics.
• Better for all the world: the secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity
  - use the search box to find Washington
• Eugenical sterilization in the United States - use the search box to find Washington

The Tacoma Method

• SEARCH TIPS: To find articles, also search for - Tacoma and Chinese and expulsion
• Tacoma Method (Chinese Reconciliation Project)
• Tacoma expels the entire Chinese community on November 3, 1885 - HistoryLink.org
• The Tacoma Method - Overland Monthly, 1886
• Report of the Governor of Washington, 1884 - page 52, Expulsion at Tacoma, Washington Territory

Japanese Internment - WWII

• Camp Harmony exhibit @ UW Libraries - includes newsletter published in camp
• Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
• Japanese Internment: Tacoma Community History Projects
• Japanese Americans Evacuation relocation, 1942-1945, Image Archive -Tacoma Public Library
• Japanese American Incarceration: A Selected Bibliography of Works Held at the University of Washington Libraries
• Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community

Immigration Act of 1924 - The Johnson-Reed Act

• The Immigration Act of 1924 Historical Highlights  
• Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act) - U.S. Dept. of State
• Albert Johnson biography

Seattle General Strike of 1919

• Seattle General Strike Project - includes compilation of photographs, videos, oral histories, newspapers, documents and reports from University of Washington Pacfic Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects.

Mothers’ Pension/AFDC

• Mothers Pension Act of 1913 - Session laws of the State of Washington, Chapter 179 (pg 644)
• Mothers Pension Act of 1915, Session laws of the State of Washington, Chapter 139 (page 370)
• Public relief in Washington, 1853-1933. Poor relief, mothers' pensions, indigent soldiers' relief, old age pensions, and indigent blind relief in Washington - check catalog for availability
• "To Help Her Live the Right Kind of Life:" Mothers' Pensions in King County, 1913-1937 - in the left column, click on Page 189 to view beginning of chapter.
• Thirteen states now have laws pensioning mothers - NY Times, May 11, 1913

Dawes Act  (Allotment Act, General (Dawes Act) 25 U.S.C.A. § 331; 24 Stat. 388)

• Dawes Act (1887)
• The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition (ebook) - search for Dawes Act

Boldt Decision on tribal fishing rights, February 1974

• Boldt Decision 'very much alive' 30 years later - Seattle PI, February 11, 2004
• Unintended Consequences of the Boldt Decision