Author: Sallie Southall CottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, 1901-1925
Author: Sallie Southall CottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs
Author: Sallie Southall CottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
General Federation of Women's Clubs Magazine
Author: The North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs
Author: North Carolina Federation of Women's ClubsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Gertrude Weil
Author: Leonard RogoffPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146963080X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do," wrote Gertrude Weil (1879–1971). In the first-ever biography of Weil, Leonard Rogoff tells the story of a modest southern Jewish woman who, while famously private, fought publicly and passionately for the progressive causes of her age. Born to a prominent family in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Weil never married and there remained ensconced--in many ways a proper southern lady--for nearly a century. From her hometown, she fought for women's suffrage, founded her state's League of Women Voters, pushed for labor reform and social welfare, and advocated for world peace. Weil made national headlines during an election in 1922 when, casting her vote, she spotted and ripped up a stack of illegally marked ballots. She campaigned against lynching, convened a biracial council in her home, and in her eighties desegregated a swimming pool by diving in headfirst. Rogoff also highlights Weil's place in the broader Jewish American experience. Whether attempting to promote the causes of southern Jewry, save her European family members from the Holocaust, or support the creation of a Jewish state, Weil fought for systemic change, all the while insisting that she had not done much beyond the ordinary duty of any citizen.
North Carolina Women
Author: Michele GillespiePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the amendment was ratified in 1920. Gladys Avery Tillett, an ardent Democrat and supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal, became a major presence in her party at both the state and national levels. Guion Griffis Johnson turned to volunteer work in the postwar years, becoming one of the state's most prominent female civic leaders. Through her excellent education, keen legal mind, and family prominence, Susie Sharp in 1949 became the first woman judge in North Carolina and in 1974 the first woman in the nation to be elected and serve as chief justice of a state supreme court. Throughout her life, the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray charted a religious, literary, and political path to racial reconciliation on both a national stage and in North Carolina. This is the second of two volumes that together explore the diverse and changing patterns of North Carolina women's lives. The essays in this volume cover the period beginning with women born in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but who made their greatest contributions to the social, political, cultural, legal, and economic life of the state during the late progressive era through the late twentieth century.
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women
Author: Scotti CohnPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762776536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Tar Heel State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Republican Women
Author: Catherine E. RymphPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807856529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party. As Catherine Rymph explains, their often conflicting efforts over the subsequent decades would leave a mark on both conservative
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
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