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Mary __

Influential Women in The Civil Rights Era - 2 views

www.upress.state.ms.us/1149

women women's history Civil Rights books

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  • Mary __ on 15 Oct 10
     
    While looking around on the internet to try and find more about women in the civil rights era I came across this link that talks a about a book that would be a good resource for our class and possibly some group projects. Its a book about Women in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1965. I don't know if it would help but it might!
  • Big Bird on 22 Oct 10
     
    It's definitley a book that I would look through if it is available at the library
tiger lily

Laura Clay - 3 views

www.kdla.ky.gov/...kylauraclay.htm

Kentucky women history

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  • Lexington's Sayre School
  • an unusually powerful position for a southern girl in the 1860's when any woman demonstrating intellect was considered a "bluestocking" doomed to spinsterhood.
  • Their resulting divorce in 1878 was the turning point in all of the Clay women's lives. According to laws at the time, a woman held no claim to house or property
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  • the Clay women turned to the equalizing of women's rights.
  • Laura decided to lease White Hall from her father
  • She then collaborated with Susan B. Anthony to organize suffrage societies across the Commonwealth
  • During this same period, Clay became the best-known southern suffragist and the South's leading voice in the councils of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). While chair of the association's membership committee, she introduced recruiting innovations that almost tripled the number of members, from 17,000 in 1905 to 45,501 in 1907, and succeeded in establishing associations in nine southern states.
  • Clay was an emancipationist; one who believed that it was up to each state to grant freedom/rights to citizens
  • Clay was also a believer in Anglo-Saxon superiority but was paternalistic in her attitudes. A product of her time and region, this hearkening back to Southern pre-Civil War beliefs caused some critics to castigate her as a racist.
  • She also worked to promote the involvement of women in politics, advocating that women not silently accept the party affiliation of their husbands, but instead form and act upon their own beliefs.
  • Claire Johns on 17 Sep 10
     
    The beginning of this article is a great biography. The best part of this piece was being able to find out more about her positions on states rights and whether she believed in civil rights for blacks as well. Clay was a major supporter of states rights. In all that she did for women's rights ( a list is given at the end) Clay was not an advocate for the rights of African Americans. 
  • charlie v on 22 Sep 10
     
    I found it unique that Laura Clay began to pursue womens equal rights after her parents seperated. Her mother took care of the White Hall estate for 45 years and then was all the sudden homeless because the property belonged to the father according to the laws that prevented women from owning land. This left Laura and her sisters to pursue the equality of women. She was also responsible for creating the Kentucky Equal Rights Organization with the help of Susan B. Anthony.
  • tiger lily on 14 Oct 10
     
    This site has a short but very informative biography of Laura Clay. Along with a biography it list all of her monumental accomplishment fighting for equal rights. The site is full of pictures of Laura Clay and is very well documented with numerous sources citing the information.
aplatonic 3

Mary McLeod Bethune with a ... - World Digital Library - 0 views

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mary mcleod bethune

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  • une was a pioneering American educator and civil rights leader. Born Mary Jane McLeod on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, the daughter of former slaves, Bethune won scholarships to attend Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina (now Barber-Scotia College), and the Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago (now the Moody Bible Institute). In 1904, she moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, to found her own school. Her one-room school house became the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls before merging with Cookman Institute for Boys in 1923. The merged school later affiliated with the United Methodist Church and became the historically-black college named in her honor, Bethune-Cookman College (now Bethune-Cookman University). In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Bethune the director of the National Youth Administration's Division of Negro Affairs, making her the first black woman to head a federal agency. She also founded the National Council of Negro Women and was an active member of the National Association of Colored Women until her death in May 1955. Date Created Around 1905 Place North America > United States of America > Florida > Daytona Beach Time 1900 AD - 1949 AD Topic Social sciences > Political science > Civil & political rights Social sciences > Education > Schools & their activities; special education Additional Subjects African American girls ; African Americans--Segregation ; Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 ; Women ; Women's history Type of Item Prints, Photographs Physical Description 1 negative: black and white; 4 x 5 inches Institution State Library and Archives of Florida External Resource http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/ftasa.4013
  • Mary McLeod Bethune was a pioneering American educator and civil rights leader.
  • In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Bethune the director of the National Youth Administration's Division of Negro Affairs, making her the first black woman to head a federal agency.
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  • She also founded the National Council of Negro Women and was an active member of the National Association of Colored Women until her death in May 1955.
Randolph Hollingsworth

FBI Records: The Vault - Civil Rights - 0 views

vault.fbi.gov/civil-rights

civil rights history resources

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 21 Feb 12
     
    includes listings such as Betty Shabazz, Freedom Riders, Benjamin Hooks (his mother and aunt were from Kentucky), White Supremacist Groups
charlie v

Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame - 1 views

www.lfuchrc.org/...entucky_civil_rights_hall_.htm

Kentucky Civil Rights Major Members

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  • charlie v on 22 Oct 10
     
    This website shows information on people who went to extreme links to spread their ideas of gender fairness and civil rights activism
  • Big Bird on 22 Oct 10
     
    This site seems very useful for anyone who is conducting research on any of the people listed here. Many seem to be still living and this could be used as a primary resource if you can contact them and set up an interview.
Randolph Hollingsworth

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

docsouth.unc.edu/...result.html

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.
Mary __

Important women throughout Kentucky's history - 3 views

www.ca.uky.edu/...fcs1323.pdf

Women's history civil rights reformers education

shared by Mary __ on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mary __ on 22 Sep 10
     
    I think that this article gives a good insight into the influential women that have come out of Kentucky. It gives brief descriptions of each of the women. This could be a very helpful resource to look back at which women were the most influential.
  • charlie v on 22 Sep 10
     
    Many influential artists, sculpture and painters came from Kentucky that were women. I too grew up in Louisville like many of these artists and found it cool that a scultpture from louisville did the Daniel Boone sculpture in Cherokee Park.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research - 0 views

al.comm.louisville.edu/abi

Anne Braden social justice civil rights primary sources Kentucky women digital

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 04 Nov 10
     
    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.
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