ISBN:
9781469605425
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1469605422
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 194 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Gender & American culture
DDC:
305.42092273
Keywords:
Ware, Caroline F.
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Bürgerrechtsbewegung
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Sozialreformerin
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Hochschullehrerin
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Women social reformers Correspondence
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Women college teachers Correspondence
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African American women civil rights workers Correspondence
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Women historians Correspondence
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Feminists Correspondence
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Women intellectuals Correspondence
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USA
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Briefsammlung
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Briefsammlung
Abstract:
In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985. Ware, a Boston Brahmin born in 1899, was a scholar, a leading consumer advocate, and a political activist. Murray, born in 1910 and raised in North Carolina, with few resources except her intelligence and determination, graduated from college at 16 and made her way to law school, where she organized student sit-ins to protest segregation. She pulled her friend Ware into this early civil rights activism. Their forty-year correspondence ranged widely over issues of race, politics, international affairs, ...
Note:
Literaturangaben
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807876732_Scott
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