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  • Rackham Graduate School

    A History of Activism

    James Dau | June 30, 2020 diversity
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  • Child with women's suffrage posters
    Michigan Today

    The Strategic Suffragist

    Deborah Holdship | August 31, 2020 alumni
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  • Jean Ledwith King marches with her husband in this undated photo.
    Heritage

    #MeToo Circa 1970

    Jim Tobin | December 4, 2019

    In 1970, a female secretary inspired one of the great sea changes in the University’s history: that Michigan should treat women the same as men.

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  • Painting of Sarah Gertrude Banks
    Medicine at Michigan

    In Her Own Right

    by Katie Vloet | June 2019

    Sarah Gertrude Banks, one of the earliest women to graduate from the U-M Medical School, cared for patients while championing women’s suffrage.

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  • In this photo from on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 20, 2014, members of the student movement Being Black at the University of Michigan, or #BBUM, rally on the steps of Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Mich. They gathered holding signs and read off their list of demands to those exiting a lecture given in honor of MLK by Harry Belafonte. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Melanie Maxwell)
    Bentley Historical Library

    Being Black at U-M

    by Katie Vloet | May 2019

    Austin McCoy ignited a social justice movement on campus and beyond. Learn how he fought to make U-M more diverse and why his papers are now archived at the University forever.

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