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Randolph Hollingsworth

Civil Rights Driving Tour, Louisville Kentucky - 0 views

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Apr 13
     
    Includes a stop at Anne Braden's home, 4403 Virginia Ave.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Mary Virginia Cook Parrish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 18 Mar 13
     
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  • ap view all images from this collection Thirty-one African American girls who passed swim tests with swimming school staff. Front Row, Emily Coleman, Mary L. Taylor, Julia Mukes, Ella F. Moss, Nannie Covington, Virginia Williams, Costella Peck, Dolersa Hobbs, Lena Walker, Alva Patton, Annie Lacefield, Geraldine Moore, Dora Madison, Nena Curry. Second Row, Annette Brown, Rominti Wade, Anna Thacker, Geraldine Penman, Ann Roach, Nannette Johnson, Shirley Wright, Mary Williams, Louise Henderson, Vada Lawson, Geraldine Garner, Mattie B. Ray, Mary J. Butler, Margaret Floyd, Dorsey Williams, Pauline Fender, Anna B. Bailey. Back row, Osborne Price, lifeguard; Margaret Covington, leader; A.D. Burroughs, pool manager; Mrs. H.H. Rowe, director of city recreation and Douglas park; George Elliott, Herald-Leader instructor; Russell Hill, assistant instructor; Juanita Rankin, leader; and Kenneth Dunson, lifeguard. (This image was published in: Herald-Leader )
Jamsasha Pierce

Women overlooked in civil rights movement - U.S. news - Life - Race & ethnicity - msnbc... - 2 views

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  • Visible, but unsung But scan historic
  • Visible, but unsung But scan historical images of the most dramatic moments of the civil rights movement — protesters blasted by fire hoses and dogs lunging at blacks — and women and girls are everywhere.
  • There is a 1964 image of Mississippi beautician Vera Piggy styling hair and educating her customers on voter registration.
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  • Most were “volunteers — women in the churches who cooked the meals and made sure all the preparations were made, the ones who cleaned up after the rallies and got ready for the next one,” Kennedy said. “Most women who are sincerely interested in making a difference are not looking for the publicity for it. ... Making a true difference doesn’t always come with fanfare.”
  • Most women in the movement played background roles, either by choice or due to bias, since being a women of color meant facing both racism and sexism.
  • “In some ways it reflects the realities of the 1950s: There were relatively few women in public leadership roles,” said Julian Bond, a civil rights historian at the University of Virginia and chair of the NAACP. “So that small subset that becomes prominent in civil rights would tend to be men. But that doesn’t excuse the way some women have just been written out of history.”
  • nd there’s a 1963 photo of students at Florida A&M University, a historically black college, in which hundreds of people, mostly women, answer court charges for protesting segregated movie theaters.
  • The women arranged car pools and sold cakes and pies to raise money for alternate transportation.
  • Countless women in the movement could have spoken: Ella Baker was a charismatic labor organizer and longtime leader in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She believed the movement should not place too much emphasis on leaders. Septima Poinsette Clark, often called the “queen mother” of civil rights, was an educator and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People activist decades before the nation’s attention turned to racial equality.
  • tiger lily on 14 Oct 10
     
    Woman had key roles in civil rights movement is an article on msnbc.com which discuses what we have been discussing in class. How woman with in the civil rights movement are largely unknown and remained in the background. It names several woman involved nationally in civil rights including Ella Baker, Septima Poinsetta Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Vivian Jones.
  • Mary __ on 15 Oct 10
     
    I think this article reiterates exactly what our class has been talking about how women were overlooked and more behind the scenes in this movement. The women were not really given the credit they deserve and this article realizes that and touches on important aspects that our class has talked about.
  • Claire Johns on 26 Oct 10
     
    A great article highlighting some of the behind the scenes roles of women. It also describes how many women, which were involved in the movement are still unknown. 
Randolph Hollingsworth

Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund - Oral History Interviews at Ind... - 0 views

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Kentucky women history civil rights segregation SCEF HUAC SNCC SCLC Southern Patriot Anne Braden

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 12 Oct 10
     
    5 interviews with civil rights activists in the early 1980s (Anne Braden, Virginia Foster Durr, Amelia Robinson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Frederick Palmer Weber) who discuss their involvement in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund. Some of the main topics include segregation, poverty, legislation, and poll taxes. (Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460.) Braden interview by Linda Reed is 35 pages (90 minutes) - describes the disenfranchisement of Depression Era South and need for worker, economic and civil rights for Black Americans; discusses Congress of Industrial Organizations, House Un-American Activities Committee, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as the structure of the SCEF and the Southern Patriot.
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SNYC - Southern Negro Youth Congress - 0 views

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  • charlie v on 01 Nov 10
     
    SNYC was created in 1937 after a group of young blacks from Virginia traaveled to the National Negro Congress meeting in Chicago, Illinios in 1936. The newly created SNYC created campaignes for anti-lynching in the south and after 12 years had chapters in 10 states with 11,000 members across the United States and the south despite being watched by the FBI. They laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement in the south by getting many people incolved in the human rights movement.
Randolph Hollingsworth

women civil rights workers - 11 oral history interviews - Documenting the American South - 0 views

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primary source oral history women activism cicl rights Nelle Morton Septima Poinsette Clark Edith Mitchell Dabs Elizabeth Jacoway Burns Grace Towns Hamilton Nancy Kester Neale Elizabeth Siceloff Virginia Foster Durr Modjeska Simkins

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 15 Nov 10
     
    UNC's wonderful open educational resource offers up transcripts and .mp3 files of oral history interviews by such great historians as Jacquelyn Hall Dowd and Sue Thrasher.
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