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Sister Rosetta Tharpe performs at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival

Sister Rosetta Tharpe performs at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival, Photo by Diana Jo Davies, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collection, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Join the Smithsonian in celebrating Women's History Month by exploring events, resources, podcast episodes, and exhibitions that tell a diversity of women's stories.

Upcoming Events

Resources

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Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Education Resources

Explore resources for learners of all ages from the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum and others.

Dolores Huerta by Barbara Carrasco. Silkscreen 1999. National Portrait Gallery,

Smithsonian Snapshot

Dolores Huerta: A Latina Civil Rights Icon

A life spent advocating for workers and women’s rights.

Kitty Cone with reporters holding microphones in her direction.

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Kitty Cone: Advocate for Disability Rights

Cone is one of four women featured in our new miniseries about women who shaped American history.

collage of diverse women

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Becoming Visible

Discover how women’s histories have been recorded, remembered, lost, and recovered.

Barbara Dane with the Chambers Brothers at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Six Musicians Who Led Social Change

Learn about six women from the exhibition Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change.

White political poster with black text. Text reads: THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING A WOMAN ARTIST

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Guerilla Girls

In the 1980s, the Guerrilla Girls began creative activism that demanded equal representation for women and nonwhite artists in major museums.

Winning Disability Rights and image of Lois Curtis

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

How Artist Lois Curtis Won Disability Rights

Learn how people with disabilities won the right to choose their own homes.

B&W photo of Saralegui interviewing guest in front of an audience

Smithsonian Snapshot

Meet the Cuban Oprah: Cristina Saralegui

To millions of people, she’s known on a first-name basis: Cristina.

Ethel L. Payne

Smithsonian Snapshot

A Fearless Journalist

Journalist and civil rights activist Ethel Payne was often known as the First Lady of the Black Press.

Louise Nevelson photograph

Smithsonian Collection Spotlight

American Women Artists

Discover women artists and their works in the collections.

Poster showing a diverse group of women with the words don't call me girl!

Smithsonian Collection Spotlight

Women's Graphics Collective

The collective brought women designers and activists together to produce art that advanced the women’s movement.

Toni Morrison

Smithsonian Collection Spotlight

American Women Writers

Discover women writers who have made a mark on American history and culture.

Podcast Episodes

Illustration of a gray-haired woman giving a speech at a lectern to a large audience with a red and yellow background.

Sidedoor Podcast

Wrinkled Radicals

Hear about the U.S. movement against ageism started by Maggie Kuhn in the 1970s.

Illustration of protestors standing in front of a biohazard sign.

Sidedoor Podcast

Building a Movement

A history of the environmental justice movement from the farmlands of North Carolina to a watershed moment in the nation's capital.

woman with guitar

Sidedoor Podcast

Sing a Song of Protest

As an up-and-coming young blues singer in the 1950s, Barbara Dane faced a choice: fame and fortune, or her principles.

illustration of woman skateboarding.

Sidedoor Podcast

Shredding Skateboarding's Glass Ceiling

When Mimi Knoop entered her first skateboarding competition, she never anticipated leaving her mark on the sport forever.

Featured Exhibitions

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