Author: Louise de Koven BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prostitution
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Straight Girl on the Crooked Path
Author: Louise de Koven BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prostitution
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Lines of Activity
Author: Shannon JacksonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Applies the interdisciplinary insights of performance studies to the life of Chicago's Hull-House settlement
Growing Up with a City
Author: Louise de Koven BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Selected Papers of Jane Addams
Author: Jane AddamsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1063
Book Description
In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a vision for achieving a more secure, satisfying, and hopeful life for all. Eleven years later, her “scheme,” as she called it, had become Hull-House and stood as the template for the creation of the American settlement house movement while Addams’s writings and speeches attracted a growing audience to her ideas and work. The third volume in this acclaimed series documents Addams’s creation of Hull-House and her rise to worldwide fame as the acknowledged female leader of progressive reform. It also provides evidence of her growing commitment to pacifism. Here we see Addams, a force of thought, action, and commitment, forming lasting relationships with her Hull-House neighbors and the Chicago community of civic, political, and social leaders, even as she matured as an organizer, leader, and fund-raiser, and as a sought-after speaker, and writer. The papers reveal her positions on reform challenges while illuminating her strategies, successes, and responses to failures. At the same time, the collection brings to light Addams’s private life. Letters and other documents trace how many of her Hull-House and reform alliances evolved into deep, lasting friendships and also explore the challenges she faced as her role in her own family life became more complex. Fully annotated and packed with illustrations, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 3 is a portrait of a woman as she changed—and as she changed history.
The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ...
Author: The Juvenile Court Record
Author: The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women
Author: Mabel Ward CameronPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Crooked Paths Made Straight
Author: Isabelle L. D. GrantPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491770279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In 1959, two years before she retired from teaching, Dr. Isabelle Grant set off on a yearlong journey around the world with Oscar, her long white cane, in her hand. She had been totally blind for the past twelve years. In Crooked Paths Made Straight, she shares the story of her journey during which she visited twenty-three countries from Great Britain to Fiji. In Karachi, she traveled the streets by rickshaw and struggled to master the Urdu language. In India, she explored the Taj Mahal, and in Burma she slept in a room where lizards raced up and down the walls. At a time when both women and blind people were generally seen as too helpless for solo travel, Grant fearlessly defied conventions. A dedicated teacher with a lifelong commitment to learning, her mission was to learn all she could about education in the countries she visited, in particular the education provided to blind children. Completed in 1965, Crooked Paths Made Straight recounts Grants journey, a story of dreams deferred that did not shrivel but sprang to life again and again.
The Settlement Idea
Author: Arthur C. HoldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social service
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Chicago Jazz
Author: William Howland KenneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190282436
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until tables, chairs, walls, people, move with the rhythm. The time is the 1920s. The place is South Side Chicago, a town of dance halls and cabarets, Prohibition and segregation, a town where jazz would flourish into the musical statement of an era. In Chicago Jazz, William Howland Kenney offers a wide-ranging look at jazz in the Windy City, revealing how Chicago became the major center of jazz in the 1920s, one of the most vital periods in the history of the music. He describes how the migration of blacks from the South to Chicago during and after World War I set the stage for the development of jazz in Chicago; and how the nightclubs and cabarets catering to both black and white customers provided the social setting for jazz performances. Kenney discusses the arrival of King Oliver and other greats in Chicago in the late teens and the early 1920s, especially Louis Armstrong, who would become the most influential jazz player of the period. And he travels beyond South Side Chicago to look at the evolution of white jazz, focusing on the influence of the South Side school on such young white players as Mezz Mezzrow (who adopted the mannerisms of black show business performers, an urbanized southern black accent, and black slang); and Max Kaminsky, deeply influenced by Armstrong's "electrifying tone, his superb technique, his power and ease, his hotness and intensity, his complete mastery of the horn." The personal recollections of many others--including Milt Hinton, Wild Bill Davison, Bud Freeman, and Jimmy McPartland--bring alive this exciting period in jazz history. Here is a new interpretation of Chicago jazz that reveals the role of race, culture, and politics in the development of this daring musical style. From black-and-tan cabarets and the Savoy Ballroom, to the Friars Inn and Austin High, Chicago Jazz brings to life the hustle and bustle of the sounds and styles of musical entertainment in the famous toddlin' town.