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On June 19, 1939, 500 white rioters vandalized and burned down their home. Lee was twelve years old at the time. [ 11 ] Recalling it years later, she said, "The fact that it happened on the 19th day of June has spurred me to make people understand that Juneteenth is not just a festival."
June 19 is the 170th day ... 1785 – The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, ... club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (d. 1904 ...
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation.
In her works, French asserted that women's oppression is an intrinsic part of the male-dominated global culture. For instance, one of her first non-fiction works, Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals (1985), in which she traces and analyses the history of gender relations from early matrifocal societies to the lives of women and men "in the age of patriarchy". [4]
Edelman in 2010. Edelman was the first African-American woman admitted to The Mississippi Bar in 1964. [10] [11] [3] She began practicing law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Mississippi office, [12] working on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement and representing activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. [13]
Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first influential work of nonfiction about motherhood, Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution is an anthology of personal essays and interviews with some of the world's leading experts on family and childcare, [1] including Sheila Kitzinger, Steve Biddulph, Stephanie Coontz, Gabor Mate, and others.
Phyllis Lyon was born on November 10, 1924, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [13] She held a degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, earned in 1946.During the 1940s, she worked as a reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record, and during the 1950s, she worked as part of the editorial staff of two Seattle magazines.