Author: Mrs. Howell B. ErmingerPublisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
History of the Woman's Board of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, 1920-1970
Author: Mrs. Howell B. ErmingerPublisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
History of Child Saving in the United States
Author: National Conference on Social Welfare. Annual Forum Committee on the History of Child-Saving WorkPublisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Women's History Sources: Collections
Author: Andrea HindingPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
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Women, Culture, and Community
Author: Elizabeth Hayes TurnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198028059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did middle- and upper-class southern women-black and white-advance from the private worlds of home and family into public life, eventually transforming the cultural and political landscape of their community? Using Galveston as a case study, Elizabeth Hayes Turner asks who where the women who became activists and eventually led to progressive reforms and the women sufferage movement. Turner discovers that a majority of them came from particular congregations, but class status had as much to do with reofrm as did religious motivation. The Hurricane of 1900, disfranchisement of black voters, and the creation of city commission government gave white women the leverage they needed to fight for a women's agenda for the city. Meanwhile, African American women, who were excluded from open civic association with whites, created their own organizations, implemented their own goals, and turned their energies to resisting and alleviating the numbing effects of racism. Separately white and black women created their own activist communities. Together, however, they changed the face of this New South city. Based on an exhaustive database of membership in community organizations compiled by the author from local archives, Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to students of race relations in the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, and religious history.
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
The Roads They Made
Author: Adade Mitchell WheelerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Women in American History
Author: Cynthia Ellen HarrisonPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Urban America
Author: Neil L. ShumskyPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio Information Services
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975
Author: Barbara J. LovePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097475
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Documenting key feminists who ignited the second wave women's movement Barbara J. Love’s Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 will be the first comprehensive directory to document many of the founders and leaders (including both well-known and grassroots organizers) of the second wave women's movement. It tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws. The biographical entries on these pioneering feminists represent their many factions, all parts of the country, all races and ethnic groups, and all political ideologies. Nancy Cott's foreword discusses the movement in relation to the earlier first wave and presents a brief overview of the second wave in the context of other contemporaneous social movements.
Widows and Orphans First
Author: S. J. KleinbergPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The experiences of widows and their children during the Progressive Era and the New Deal depended on differences in local economies and values. How did these widely varied experiences impact the origins of the welfare state? S. J. Kleinberg delves into the question by comparing widows' lives in three industrial cities with differing economic, ethnic, and racial bases. Government in Fall River, Massachusetts, saw employment as a solution to widows' poverty and as a result drastically limited public charity. In Pittsburgh, widows received sympathetic treatment. Few jobs existed for them or their children; indeed, the jobs for men were concentrated in "widowmaking" industries like steel and railroading. With a large African American population and a diverse economy that relied on inexpensive child and female labor, Baltimore limited funds for public services. African Americans adapted by establishing their own charitable institutions. A fascinating comparative study, Widows and Orphans First offers a one-of-a-kind look at social welfare policy for widows and the role of children in society during a pivotal time in American history.