Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985

Shalala, Donna E. (Donna Edna), 1941-

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Donna Edna Shalala (born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration and represented Florida's 27th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she attended West Technical High School before receiving a bachelor's degree in 1962 from Western College for Women. From 1962 to 1964, she was among th...

Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987

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Bayard Rustin (b. March 17, 1912, West Chester, Pennsylvania–d. August 24, 1987, Manhattan, New York) was an African-American Quaker who was concerned with nonviolence, socialism, civil rights, race relations, and international relations. He was connected with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, Congress of Racial Equality, and Committee for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation. He was imprisoned during World War II fo...

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972

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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. R...

Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966

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"Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. From as early as the 1930s, she argued that Jim Crow was evil ("Segregation is spiritual lynching," she said) and that it leads to social moral retardation."--"Lillian Smith (1897-1966)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 18, 2008: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. From the descri...

United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

MacDowell (Peterborough, N.H.)

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MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell Colony (or simply "the Colony") but the Board of Directors voted to remove "Colony" from the name in an effort to remove "terminology with oppressive overtones". After Edward MacDowell died in 1908, Marian MacDowell established the artists' residency pr...

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Kemp, Maida Springer, 1910-2005

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Maida Springer Kemp (1910 – 2005) was an American labor organizer who worked extensively in the garment industry for a lot of labor standards at the time for men and women in America through the Local Union 22. She was also known for her extensive work in Africa for the AFL–CIO. Nicknamed "Mama Maida", she advised fledgling labor unions, set up education and training programs, and liaised between American and African labor leaders. In 1945, traveling to England on a labor-exchange trip, as well ...

Sandler, Bernice Resnick, 1928-2019

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Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist born in New York. Sandler is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with Representatives Edith Green (D-OR) and Patsy Mink (D-HI) and Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) in the 1970s. She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times. Sandler wrote extensively about sexual and peer harassment towards w...

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, short story writer and playwright. Born in Harlem, he provided a literary voice during the period of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s. His first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953) is a partially autobiographical account of his youth. His other novels include "Giovanni's Room" (1956) and "Another Country" (1962), both concerned with homosexuality as a theme. Baldwin's highly personal and analytical essay collections, "Notes of a...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Mondale, Walter F. (Walter Frederick), 1928-2021

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Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (January 5, 1928-April 19, 2021) is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A United States senator from Minnesota (1964–1976), he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 United States presidential election, but lost to Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College landslide. Reagan won 49 states while Mondale carried his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. In Octob...

Brandeis University

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Private research university with liberal arts focus; located in Waltham, Mass. From the description of Brandeis University correspondence, 1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733080419 From the description of Brandeis University records, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733069438 Collection materials date from 1923-2009, with the bulk of the collection being published during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. These rich resources detail the politics, economics, ...

Hastie, William Henry, Jr., 1904-1976

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William Henry Hastie Jr. (November 17, 1904 – April 14, 1976) was an American lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and civil rights advocate. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federal judge, and as a federal appellate judge. He served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and previously served as District Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands. Hastie was born ...

Friedan, Betty, 1921-2006

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Betty Friedan was born Bettye Goldstein on February 4, 1921, in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Harry and Miriam (Horwitz) Goldstein. She attended Peoria public schools and graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1942. She continued her studies as a University fellow in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley (1943). In June 1947 she married Carl Friedan, an advertising executive; they had three children (Daniel, Jonathan, and Emily) and were divorced in May 1969. Fried...

National Organization for Women

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The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in Washington D.C. in 1966, and incorporated in 1967. The organization was formed to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of society, assuming all privileges and responsibilities in fully equal partnership with men. Local chapters were formed throughout the country and task forces were set up to deal with problems of women in areas such as employment, education, religion, poverty, law, politics, and image in the media....

Stewart, Mary Louise, 1961-

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John Ethophilus Gratten Small

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Kelly, Mary

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Mary Kelly has served the Order Sons of Italy in America Indiana Grand Lodge as Grand Venerable (1977), Assistant Grand Venerable (1975-1977), and Grand Trustee (1973-1975). From the guide to the Mary Kelly Order Sons of Italy in America collection, 1953-1981, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Immigration History Research Center [ihrc]) Letter to Mary Kelly of Bloomington, Indiana. Author of the letter was a Union soldier serving in Company G, 10th Iowa Infantry under Capt...

Lynette G. Pitter

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Vohryzek, Laura Francesca

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Snelling, Paula

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Schindler-Rainman, Eva

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Bigelow, Page Smith

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Cynthia Neverdon-Norton

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Stone, Camdace

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Adelene McBean

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Mackay, Violet

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Hunter college

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The Hunter College Dance Therapy Program was begun in 1971 with the support of the National Institute of Mental Health. Forming part of the Department of Health and Physical Education of Hunter College of the City University of New York it offered the first Master of Science degree in dance therapy in the United States. The program was developed by Claire Schmais, Elissa White, and Martha Davis. In 1982 a three-year dual degree program combining social work and dance therapy was started, grantin...

Mary Grace McFeely

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Edward A. Cole

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Wilson, Margaret Bush, 1919-2009

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NAACP leader, activist attorney Margaret Bush Wilson was born Margaret Bush on January 30, 1919, in St. Louis, Missouri. Wilson's father, a railway postal clerk, James Thomas Bush was a 1900 Prairie View A&M graduate and her mother, Margaret Bernice Casey Bush taught kindergarten. Both of Wilson's parents were active in the local NAACP, with her mother serving as an executive board member. Wilson attended grade school on the grounds of Sumner High School where lifelong friend Julia Davis men...

Granger, Lester B. (Lester Blackwell), 1896-1976

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Member of Dartmouth Class of 1918. From the description of [Collection of his published writings]. 1939-1953. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 240653249 Lester Blackwell Granger was an African American civic leader and social worker. Born in 1896, he grew up in Newark, NJ, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1918. After serving in the United States Army during the First World War, he worked briefly for the Newark chapter of the National Urban League. From...

Chandra, Sunil

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Hacker, Helen Mayer

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Weinberg, Clara

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Sarah Ann Williams Fitzgerald

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Jones, Joy Lawson

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University of California (1868-1952)

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Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...

Myers, Lena Wright

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Isaacs, Harold R. (Harold Robert), 1910-1986

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Educator, writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Harold Robert Isaacs : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419690 ...

Curry, Lilly

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Rinehardt, Mary Ellen T.

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Ware, Caroline F. (Caroline Farrar), 1899-1990

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Social historian, consumer lobbyist; interviewee married Gardiner C. Means. From the description of Reminiscences of Caroline F. Ware : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565371 Caroline Farrar Ware, a professor of history and social science, received her A.B. from Vassar in 1920, her A.M. from Radcliffe in 1924, and her Ph.D. in 1925. Ware was an associate professor of history at Vassar from 1925-1930 and from 1932-1934...

Richard Burton Fitzgerald

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Robert G. Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald family

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Jerr, Bill

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Rayford Ellis

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Ruth Goldstein

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Jenks, Sallie Porter

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Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Dame, Pauline Fitzgerald

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Bates, Daisy, 1914-1999

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Daisy Bates, born Daisy Lee Gatson, born on November 11, 1914, Huttig, Arkansas, was a social activist and author. She married L. Christopher Bates, publisher of the Arkansas State Press, in 1942. The couple lived in Little Rock (Pulaski County) where they published their newspaper and were active in the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP. She became the advisor to the Little Rock Nine, the first group to integrate Central High School in 1957. Following the writing of her memoirs in 1960, Mr...

Swift, Kate

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Casey Geddes Miller was born on February 26, 1919 in Toledo, Ohio. Miller was a feminist author, editor, activist and philanthropist. One of three girls, she attended St. Margaret’s School until 1936. Miller graduated with a philosophy major from Smith College in 1940 and soon began working in the publishing field as an editorial assistant. Miller also served in the women's section of the U.S. Naval Reserve as a part of the Women Appointed (later Accepted) for Volunteer Emergency Se...

Herbert Garfinkel

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Kemp, James H.

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...

United Religious Interfaith League

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Gooch, Wanda

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Tweed, Harrison, 1885-1969

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Harrison Tweed: oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481759 ...

Alfreda James

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Brown, William H. (William Henry), 1832-1910

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Epithet: banker, of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000704.0x000338 William Anderson Brown was born in Sweden on May 6, 1832, the son of Andrew and Julia Brown. At age 10 he ran away to sea. In 1852 he arrived in California, where he mined for a number of years. He arrived in Alder Gulch, Montana, about 1864, and then moved on to Silver City. He bought a ranch there in 1868, and then some...

Steele, Anna

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Kalashnikoff, Elizabeth Lawrence.

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Garrison, Lloyd K.

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Kennedy, John F., 1942-

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Edward F. Chayter

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Anderson, Marian

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Taylor, Isabel

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Dorothy Kenyon

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Marie Fitzgerald Jeffers

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Sidney Smith

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Smith family

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Lewis M. Steele

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Casey Miller

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Farber, Beth

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Roberta A. Fitzgerald

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Worthy, N. Beatrice

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Leonard, Angela

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Short, Grace

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Whaley, Herman

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Mary Ruffin Smith

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Jones, Hector

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Jerr, William A.

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Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985

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Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a lawyer, scholar, writer, educator, administrator, religious leader, civil rights and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal minister. She spent much of her life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Proud shoes : the story of an American family : typescript, 1956 / by Pauli Murray. (New York Public Library)....

Reynolds, Ruth

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Moorman, Natalie

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Grevenberg, Beatrice Hammon

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Joseph R. Dickerson

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Berman, Harold J.

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Urith B. Josiah

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Herson, Stella K.

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Robert Williams Matter

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Mildred Murray Fearing

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Arturo H. Smith

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Murray, Grace

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Kalashinikoff, Elizabeth Lawrence

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Lewis H. Murray

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Dame, Morton

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Charles Morton Dame

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Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 1886-1970

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0001e6 American poet. From the description of The steep ascent : a collection of poems, 1925-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510507 Jean Starr Untermeyer, poet and wife of poet Louis Untermeyer, was born in 1886 in Zanesville, Ohio. Growing Pains, her first poetry collection, was published in 1918. In 1927, she began work as a t...

Robertson, Jay

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Springer, Eric

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Trice, Josephine

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Emerson, Ruth

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Small, Donald A.

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McDonald, Henry J.

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Goldstein, Ruth

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Walls, Wuanda

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Stepanovich, Doris Sawyer

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Workers' Defense League

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In 1936, Norman Thomas proposed the formation of a national labor and socialist defense committee to coordinate the defense of striking unionists, sharecroppers and other workers caught up in the labor crisis of the Great Depression. An earlier (1918) organization, called the Workers Defense Union, was not related to it, though their goals were similar. From the description of Collection, 1936-1970, 1937-1949. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 29546111 ...

Shirley Ruth Kirschner

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General Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)

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Pollock, Jane

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Woodburn, Betty

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Yale Law School

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In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Seth P. Staples (Yale 1797) opened a school for law students in New Haven. In 1824 the school became affiliated with Yale College. The college conferred its first law degrees in 1843. The course of study originally extended for two years, and in 1896 it was lengthened to three years. Subsequently a college degree became a prerequisite for the Bachelor of Laws degree. Graduate courses leading to advanced degrees began in 1876. In 1926 honors courses ...

Emerson, Thomas I. (Thomas Irwin), 1907-1991

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Irwin Emerson : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734528 From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Irwin Emerson : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737818 Thomas Irwin Emerson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, on July 12, 1907. He graduated from Yale College in 1928 and from Yale Law School in 1...

Elizabeth Fitzgerald

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Harold O. Cox

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Foss, Sonja K.

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Hinshaw, Margaret

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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John F. Wharton was an attorney, a founding partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and a member of the Playwrights' Producing Company, a consortium which included among its members Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson. In these capacities as well as others Wharton played an active and varied role in cultural (particularly theatrical), social and economic affairs in mid-century New York City. Norman Zelenko was one of his partners. From the descri...

Clarence E. Scott

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Wolf, Max, 1863-1932

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Eugen Wolf (born in Rhein-Hesse in 1893) initially trained as a banker in Mainz and worked for the Dresdner Bank in Dresden, Saxony, for two years. After the death of his father he took over the family farming and wine-growing business. He married Johanna Mann (born 1895) from Guntersblum in 1919 and continued the farming business of his father-in-law. They had one daughter, Marianne, who was born in Mainz in 1932. It appears from the correspondence that during the Novem...

Cooper, Felix.

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Stevens, Thelma

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Burrows, Vinnie

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Jefferson, Louise E.

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Yardumian, Mona

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Farians, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Farians was an educator, theologian, and founder, in 1966, of the National Organization for Women's Ecumenical Task Force on Women and Religion. She was also a member of the national board of NOW (1967-1972), a convener of NOW chapters in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Cincinnati, and she served on the board of directors of Catholics for a Free Choice (1972-1975). From the description of Papers of NOW officers, 1965-1973 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: ...

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

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Civil rights leader and journalist; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1915-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605113 Roy Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Wilkins edited the KANSAS CITY CALL, a Black newspaper, from 1923 to 1931. Wilkins became Assistant Secretary of the NAACP in 1931 and became Executive Secretary in 1955. Under his leadership the NAACP grew to 350,000 members. ...

Brown, Ida

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Sampson, Edith S. (Edith Spurlock), 1901?-1979

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Daughter of Louis and Elizabeth (McGruder) Spurlock, Sampson was born on October 13, 1901, in Pittsburgh, Pa. She studied at the New York School of Social Work and the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration before receiving her law degree from John Marshall Law School in 1925. In 1927 she received an LL.M. from Loyola University, and was admitted to the Illinois bar; in 1935 she was admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court. At the age of...

Vereen, Daphne

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World Council of Churches

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The World Council of Churches is an ecumenical organization that was founded in Amsterdam in 1948. From the description of World Council of Churches records, 1937-1989 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702164061 The desire of the World Council of Churches to open a dialogue with Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and Muslims resulted in the 1971 Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies (DFI) program. This program supports interreligious multi-lateral and b...

Murray family

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Fox, Muriel

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Koontz, Elizabeth Duncan, 1919-1989

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Elizabeth Duncan Koontz served as president of the National Education Association (NEA) 1968-69. Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, on June 3, 1919, to Samuel and Lean Duncan, Elizabeth Duncan attended the Salisbury public schools and Livingstone College. She received a Bachelor's degree in English and elementary education in 1938, and Master's degree in elementary education from Atlanta University in 1941, and did further study at both Columbia University and Indiana University. She pur...

Walker, Mozelle

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Powell, Ruth B.

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Simchak, Morag MacLeod

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Waller, Odell

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Nelson, David

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Rightor, Henry Haskell

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Steven, Rosetta

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Domingo, Wilfred

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Morris, Mary Lee

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Whaley, Elmer

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Barlow, Irene, 1914-1973.

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Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973

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African-American poet, critic, playwright, novelist, author of children’s books, librarian. From the guide to the Arna Bontemps Papers, 1927-1968, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Teacher in New York, N.Y., and Huntsville, Ala.; head librarian, Fisk University; professor, University of Chicago; curator of James Weldon Johnson Collection and visiting professor of English, Yale University; writer in residence, Fisk University; and author. ...

Harper, Fowler

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Smith, Verna

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Sampson, Edith

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Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990

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Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990) spent more than six decades working in the fields of interfaith and civil rights organizing, government service, and urban affairs. The author of two memoirs, The Trumpet Sounds (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964) and The Gift of Chaos (Oxford, 1977), Hedgeman was a pioneer in opening civil service and political jobs to African-American women. Raised in Minnesota, Hedgeman was the first African-American graduate of Hamline University in St. Paul. From 1924 to 1...

Stone, Constance E.

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McIntyre, Mary Louise

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Adelmond, Charlotte

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Means, Gardiner C. (Gardiner Coit), 1896-1988

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Economist, author, businessman. Means served in several government agencies, 1933-1958. From the description of Papers, 1922-1987, 1933-1987 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524177 ...

Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998

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Bella Savitzky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She was known as a leading figure in what came to be known as eco-feminism. In 1970, Abzug's first campaign slogan was, "This woman's place is in the House—the H...

Miller, Catherine

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Means, Gardiner C. (Gardiner Coit), 1896-1988

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Economist, author, businessman. Means served in several government agencies, 1933-1958. From the description of Papers, 1922-1987, 1933-1987 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524177 ...

Rickhab Chand Bohra

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Marguerite J. Tillar

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Reyneau, Betsy Graves

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Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888-1964), American painter. From the description of Reyneau, Betsy Graves, 1888-1964 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10576113 ...

Melvin C. Chestnut

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Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia (Alexandria, Va.)

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University. It is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide services and programs to promote human welfare. The founders were college students who wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic excellence and to provide assistance to persons in need. The first public act performed by the Delta Founders involved their participation in the Women's Suffrage March in ...

Ware, Carolina F.

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Hernandez, Aileen C.

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Civil rights, union and women's rights activist Aileen Clarke Hernandez was born Aileen Clarke on May 23, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. Her Jamaican-born parents, theatrical seamstress Ethel Louise Hall Clarke and Garveyite brushmaker Charles Henry Clarke, named their daughter for Aileen Pringle, a film actress. Hernandez, who grew up in the ethnically-mixed Bay Ridge neighborhood of New York City, attended elementary school at P.S. 176 and graduated in 1943 as school newspaper editor, vice presi...

Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985

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Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a lawyer, scholar, writer, educator, administrator, religious leader, civil rights and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal minister. She spent much of her life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Proud shoes : the story of an American family : typescript, 1956 / by Pauli Murray. (New York Public Library)....

Brooke, Edward W., III (Edward William, III), 1919-2015

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Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American Republican politician. In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate. He represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 1967 to 1979. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Brooke graduated from the Boston University School of Law after serving in the United States Army during World War II. After serving as chairman of the Finance Commission of Boston, Brooke won election a...

Baah, Kwaku

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Fuentes, Sonia Pressman

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Lawyer and feminist, Fuentes worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1965-1973, some of this time as chief of the legislative counsel division. She was a founder of the National Organization for Women, Women's Equity Action League, and Federally Employed Women, and has lectured widely on women's rights. From the description of Papers, 1965-1990 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007571 ...

Goldstein, Ruth M.

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William Murray, Jr.

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Fuller, Richard M.

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Powell, B. Ruth

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Episcopal Women's Caucus

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943

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Stephen Vincent Beńet was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Beńet's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also becmae writers. Beńet attended Yale University where he published two collections of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), The Drug-Shop (1917). His studies were interrupted by a year of civilian military service; he worked as a cipher-clerk in the same department as James Thurber. He graduated fro...

American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Rodman, Wilmot

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Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997

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Morris Milgram was born and raised in New York, the son of Jewish parents working in the garment industry. He attended City University of New York from where he was expelled after leading a protest against a university-sponsored visit by Italian fascist students. He finished studies at Dana College (later Newark University) and started working for the Workers⁰́₉ Defense League, first as executive secretary and eventually as national secretary. In 1947 he resigned from the Workers⁰́₉ Defense Leag...

Edward K. Welsh

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Mary Daly

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Chute, Joy

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Parker, Mabel

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Curtis, Helen

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