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Democratic Woman's Club of Kentucky - 0 views

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democratic woman club

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  • On June 1, 1931 the Democratic Woman's Club of Kentucky affiliated with the Woman's National Democratic Club and today the Kentucky Democratic Woman's Club is a member of the National Federation of Democratic Woman's Clubs.
  • The history of the Democratic Woman's Club of Kentucky dates back to March 17, 1927, St. Patrick's Day.
  • At the time, Kentucky women were new to the game of politics. Only a few women had arrived at positions of importance in the political world to represent them.
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  • Anne Shanks Bourne of New Castle was elected the club's First President. Anne Shanks Bourne was a dynamic mover and shaker of her time – an inspiriing leader from 1927 -1931.
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InfoKat Holdings Information - 2 views

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woman's democtratic club papers Mary Selby Wilson

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  • 1910-1945,
  • Also known as Democratic Woman's Club papers.This collection consists largely of the correspondence of Mary Shelby Wilson related to the development of the Woman's Democratic Club of Fayette County, Ky., during the 1920's. Also included are bulletins, reports, newspaper clippings, and publications of other women's groups active in the 1920's.Mary Shelby Wilson, the wife of Samuel M. Wilson, a Lexington, Ky. attorney very active in the Democratic Party of Kentucky, was herself involved in Democratic Party women's activities. She played a role in the formation of the Women's Democratic League in Lexington in 1916, and in the founding of the Woman's Democratic Club of Fayette County in 1920, later serving as its chairman. As a local organizer, she corresponded with the Democratic National Committee, with candidates for office, with other women political leaders in Kentucky, such as Laura Clay, Madeline Breckinridge, and Alice Lloyd of Maysville, and with women active on the national scene.Card catalog and unpublished description.
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Sara W. Mahan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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sara w mahan wikipedia

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  • a progressive era social reformer, and early Democratic Party female politician from Kentucky
  • Mahan was one of the founders of the Democratic Women's Club of Kentucky. She was one of the first women to become a member of the Kentucky Democratic State Central and Executive Committee.
  • Mahan was a member of many Women's Clubs and other community organizations, including the Democratic Women's Club of Kentucky, Woman's Club of Frankfort, and the Business and Professional Women's Club.
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Southern African American Women and the Impact of Race, Gender, and Social Movements on the Democratic Party - 0 views

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Segregation Democratic Party Women South Race

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  • Big Bird on 10 Nov 10
     
    This is an excellent article written by Rosalee A. Clawson and John A. Clark that describes the dramatic affects that the social movements, gender, and race of southern African American women had on the dynamic of the Democratic party. Once a nearly all-white, male institution, the Democratic party changed after the New Deal and even more change was brought to it by the events of the Civil Rights Era. The comparisons and connections that Clawson and Clark make are thorough and well written.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Francesca Polletta, FREEDOM IS AN ENDLESS MEETING: Democracy in American Social Movements (Univ of Chicago Press, 2002) - 0 views

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Ella Baker Miles Horton James Lawson participatory democracy popular education Highlander Center cicl rights

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    Sociological study of the history and impact of the ideas of participatory democracy - emphasizing the strategic components of this leadership approach: builds trust among members, leads to better and more innovative decisions, develops leaders among those whose perspectives have been systematically devalued, effects change without reproducing the very socio-political structures that it fights. The strategies for participatory decision-making comes out of the 1930s legacy of the great American educator, John Dewey - both Ella Baker and Miles Horton were trained at Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York. Established leaders are often uncomfortable with real, democratic decisionmaking since it fundamentally challenges implicit hierarchies.
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League for Industrial Democracy - 0 views

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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.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Kent State at UK, by Richard Becker - 0 views

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SDS Students for a Democratic Society University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn free speech student radicalism

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 28 Oct 10
     
    Here's the primary source for information on Bill Dady, a SDS organizer from Atlanta who lived at the Bradens while campaigning against a segregated public pool in Louisville and negotiating with the Kentucky Human Rights Commission.
Randolph Hollingsworth

"The New Left" - Digital History Online Textbook - 2 views

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Students for a Democratic Society SDS New Left Port Huron Statement Tom Hayden student radicalism

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  • Port Huron Statement
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      Randolph Hollingsworth on 01 Nov 10
       
      What do Kentucky women think about this important statement?
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 28 Oct 10
     
    Section focusing on general history of SDS - a free online US history textbook
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SSOC Southern Student Organizing Committee - 0 views

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kentucky women and men civil rights education rights students

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    The committee was designed to create more southern white involvment in social change for equal human rights across the south. Made rally's for womens rights, black rights, and anti-Vietnam war movement in south. Associated with SDS (Students for Democratic Society), which was dangerous to support in the south at that time. Website describes goals and history of the group.
Randolph Hollingsworth

New Highway Sign Honors Former Senator Georgia Davis Powers | Kentucky Senate Democratic Caucus - 0 views

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Kentucky women history civil rights Georgia Davis Powers

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 30 Nov 10
     
    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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Women's Clubs - 0 views

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women s clubs

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  • Women'S Clubs are voluntary organizations that were originally formed by women who had been denied access to the major institutions of America's democratic civil society.
  • Working women formed working girls' clubs and small-town women formed civic improvement associations. In bigger cities, women organized citywide and neighborhood women's clubs and women's educational and industrial unions. Ethnic, church-based, African American, and settlement house women's clubs were founded across the country.
  • Although women continued to belong to literary, social, and charitable clubs, the majority of women's clubs organized after the Civil War had specific civic and political agendas. The specific purposes of each club differed according to the type of club and its stated purpose.
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  • Another common goal of women's clubs was to bring more social justice into American society. Thus, women's clubs worked to implement factory inspection laws, to place limits on the number of hours in the working day, to eliminate child labor, to institute the juvenile justice system, and to raise the minimum age for compulsory education. African American women's clubs fought against lynching, racial segregation, and discrimination. Catholic and Jewish women's clubs attracted women of those faiths who may not have felt comfortable in other women's clubs; these women were able to work for social justice within their organizations, which also paid special attention to the problems encountered by the particular religious group.
  • Women's club members believed that in order to accomplish most of their aims they had to organize networks of women's clubs.
  • Membership in women's clubs changed after the woman suffrage amendment greatly expanded women's access to civic activism through organizations previously closed to them.
  • The entry of women into public life has been reflected in the programs of their clubs, which show an increasing interest in questions of social welfare and international concern. Many town libraries, later supported by taxes, were started by women's clubs, and many health and welfare reforms have been initiated by them. The feminist movement also influenced women's clubs, especially by spurring the establishment of groups such as the National Organization for Women (founded 1966), which are explicitly devoted to the expansion of women's rights.
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