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Famous Friends - 1 views

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    List of people who spent part of their lives in the state of Kentucky.
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WILPF - 0 views

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    The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was an organization used by Anne Braden in Louisville to keep in touch on a national level, to discuss issues going on all across the United States. Braden was also involved in Women's for Peace Group associated in Louisville and shared information with both groups. The website discuss the goals of todays organization and provides history of the organization.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research - 0 views

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    Wonderful resources available here at the website for the UofL Anne Braden Institute - the Director is Dr. Cate Fosl who is joining us on Nov 18th with the AASRP Dialogues on Race session on Anne Braden.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Betty Friedan obit - Voice of Feminism's 'Second Wave' - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Obituary for Betty Friedan, writer of the 1963 book, "The Feminine Mystique" and founder of many important feminist organizations, including the National Women's Political Caucus in the 1970s.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Georgia Davis Powers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    This needs fixing!!! Sad that it is a wiki-orphan! and no other sources besides her memoir ~ surely we can do better for the Senator than this.
Randolph Hollingsworth

New Highway Sign Honors Former Senator Georgia Davis Powers | Kentucky Senate Democrati... - 0 views

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    This news announcement has a nice picture that is recent - let's find out iif photos provided by "LRC Public Information" (Legislative Research Council) are in the public domain and we can use it to fix the Wikipedia entry on her.
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Theda Skocpol and Jennifer Lynn Oser - Organization despite Adversity: The Origins and ... - 0 views

  • A prominent form of voluntary organization in the United States from the nineteenth century through the mid–twentieth century, fraternal associations are self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provide mutual aid to members, enact group rituals, and engage in community service.
  • Synthesizing primary and secondary evidence, this article documents that African Americans historically organized large numbers of translocal fraternal voluntary federations. Some black fraternal associations paralleled white groups, while others were distinctive to African Americans.
  • In regions where blacks lived in significant numbers, African Americans often created more fraternal lodges per capita than whites; and women played a much more prominent role in African American fraternalism than they did in white fraternalism.
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  • Rivaling churches as community institutions, many black fraternal federations became active in struggles for equal civil rights.
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