COVE

The “Different Families, Same Love” posters are a collection of various posters that showcase family structures that are non-traditional. These posters are meant to be displayed in primary and secondary schools. They showcase family structures of all kinds, such as those with a single-parent or same-sex parents, and are meant to portray all of these different families in a positive way, in an attempt to promote equality. These posters also teach students to celebrate all families and provide an inclusive environment for those who have non-traditional families. This poster pack is part of a...

Pictured here is a recruiting poster for The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) which was created on May 14, 1942, in response to the bombing on Pearl Harbor. After the completion of training, located at Fort Des Moines, women would be assigned to jobs in either banking, medical, clerical, or transportation. A little over a year later, President Roosevelt signed legislation making the organization an actual part of the United States Army, dropping the “auxiliary” out of the title. This made it so the approximate 350,000 female soldiers could be assigned to Army Air Forces as well as...

Painted by Edgar Degas in the 19th century, this artwork depicts a single ballerina dancing upon the stage of the Paris Opera Ballet House while hidden figures look on behind the stage curtains.

Inspired by the darker happenings of the Paris Opera Ballet, Degas hoped to convey not only the beauty and grace of ballet, but the control held over these dancers by the company’s patrons. The depicted girl arches her body in triumphant accomplishment and mastery, but sadly her achievement could not be credited only to skill. Hidden behind the curtain are other ballerinas awaiting their...

The above image shows members of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Suffrage Society’s meeting in Glasgow for a demonstration (“Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1902-1933”).  This demonstration was just one of many suffragist demonstrations in the early twentieth-century and is marked by a struggle for women to regain the opportunities lost to them after World War I (Hughes 1-12).  As was the case with women in the United States, Scottish women were not allowed to hold many positions or work many jobs prior to World War I.  Women were only expected to operate in the “domestic sphere” of...

On September 15th, 1963 at 10:24am, a terrorist attack occurred at the Birmingham Church located in Birmingham Alabama which targeted the black members of the community that attended the church. The nineteen sticks of dynamite bomb detonated in the early morning at in the basement of the church where there were four young girls helping to prepare for the Sunday service. Addie Mae Collins, 14 years old. Cynthia Wesley, 14 years old. Denise McNair, 11 years old. Carole Robertson, 14 years old. Several more were injured and maimed.

These four girls lost their lives in the attack which...

During the 3rd day of the sit ins in protest of the Carter administration's continued refusal to the sign the enabling regulations for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, outgoing phone calls were blocked in the San Francisco Federal Building, in an attempt to cut off the protestors ability to communicate with the press and their allies on the outside. The government did not count on the creativity of the protestors, as they used sign language to communicate with the other protestors holding vigil outside in the plaza in front of the Federal Building. These protestors on the...