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  • Since its founding in 1905 by Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Clarence Darrow, Norman Thomas and other well known writers and civic leaders, the League for Industrial Democracy has been an outstanding American educational organization dedicated to increasing democracy in our economic, political, and cultural life. To this end League members are devoted to the struggle for full racial equality, the abolition of poverty, the strengthening of trade unions and cooperatives, the expansion of civil liberties, the extension of public ownership and democratic economic planning, and the realignment of our political organizations with a view toward making them more responsive to the will of the people.
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Lena Madesin Phillips - 0 views

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    This website offers information about Mrs. Phillips, a Kentucky graduate who formed a national and then international group or club for the equality of women through business and economic stand points. The group is called the International Federation of Business and Professional Women.
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Nelda Barton-Collings A Business Women - 0 views

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    This is another example of a women that was able to achieve equality with the men in her town based on her economic status. She should also be known for acquiring and holding on to her businesses herself.
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Three honored at annual Women's Business and Leadership Conference - Lane Report | Kent... - 0 views

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    This article gives insight to Martha Layne Collins' community and professional life, as of 2012.
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Commentary on life in Kentucky - Lane Report | Kentucky Business & Economic News - 0 views

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    Gov. Martha Layne Collins "She not only turned out to be a strong governor but also was a real mentor to the many young women who saw her as a role model and are now today in public service. I count myself among them."
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Talent and Generosity - Lane Report | Kentucky Business & Economic News - 0 views

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    Governor's School for the Arts article is insightful to her community action profile, a continuance of her roots as a school teacher in the civil rights era.
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The Evolution of Kinkeadtown(Now, MLK neighborhood) - 1 views

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    This article is written by Nancy O'Malley, a UK archeologist who uncovered many details of Kinkeadtown(MLK Neighborhood) that were left out of the history books. She desribes the layout of the neigborhood, the scoial and economic dynamic between blacks and whites, and the women of the households within the neighborhood itself.
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Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund - Oral History Interviews at Ind... - 0 views

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    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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Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • an American social reformer who founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.
  • In 1915 Alice Geddes Lloyd and her husband Arthur Lloyd moved to Knott County, Kentucky, with the goal of improving social and economic conditions
  • Their initial work involved provision of health care, educational services, and agricultural improvements to the Appalachian region,
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  • Together with June Buchanan, a native of Syracuse, New York,[4] who joined her in Kentucky in 1919, Lloyd founded 100 elementary schools throughout eastern Kentucky and opened Caney Junior College in 1923
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Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-1996 - 0 views

  • The ERA is reintroduced into each session of Congress and held in Committee.
  • At the ERA Summit, NOW President, Patricia Ireland explains that to achieve true equality a paradigm shift is needed. Under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, using a male rather than human standard, the courts have been able to justify discrimination. Our goal of the summit is defined as the need to construct an amendment and develop a strategy that would end women's historic subordination to men and guarantee women full constitutional rights.
  • The national Constitutional Equality Amendment (CEA) Committee continues to evaluate the working draft of the CEA adopted at the 1995 National NOW Conference.
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International Federation of Professional Business Women - 0 views

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    This the offical website for the group and explains the mission and the values of the group as a whole. It also offers history on the creation of the group and what the group is currently involved with today. I found it extremely intresting that a Kentucky women born before women had the right to vote could make such a huge impact not only on a state level or a nation wide level, but on an international level, like Lena Phillips was able to accomplish in her lifetime.
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The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. (NACWC) - 0 views

  • To work for the economic, moral, religous and social welfare of women and youth. To protect the rights of women and youth. To raise the standard and quality of life in home and family. To secure and use our influence for the enforcement of civil and political rights for African Americans and all citizens. To promote the education of women and youth through the work of the departments. To obtain for African American women the opportunity of reaching the highest levels in all fields of human endeavor. To promote effective interaction with the male auxiliary. To promote inter-racial understanding so that justice and good will may prevail among all people. To hold educational workshops biennially at the Convention.  
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Uncrowned Community Builders - 0 views

  • The economic and social circumstances of their community affected black women and their perceptions of the world. The informal networks that characterized much of their nineteenth-century efforts remained important, but the increasing population compelled them to give way to new formal, structured groups designed to improve their status and that of their community. African American women in Buffalo had keen notions of the meaning of community and they were deeply involved in the creation of their twentieth-century Buffalo. These women persistently had struggled to improve the lives of their people. 
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