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Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements.
Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard were an American married couple, historical scholars, and long-time colleagues in the writing of works on American history, including The Rise of American Civilization and their seven-volume History of the United States. Each also wrote extensively as an individual.
In August 1935, Mary Ritter Beard, one of the co-founders of the World Center for Women's Archives, wrote to Dorothy B. Porter, librarian and curator at Howard University to solicit her help in gathering archival materials on African-American women for preservation. [1]
The first editor was Mary Ritter Beard. [3] Beard created a suffragist publication which was unique in offering coverage of topics that "cut across class, age and organizational boundaries." [ 4 ]
In 1935, Rosika Schwimmer, a pacifist suffragist, proposed to historian Mary Ritter Beard an idea to establish an archive to preserve the records of influential women. [1] In Schwimmer's letter to Beard, she expressed her desire to create a repository for her personal archives, [2] as well as leaders in the feminist and pacifist movements ...
Mary Beard may refer to: Mary Beard (classicist) (born 1955), British classicist, literary critic and journalist; Mary Beard (nursing) (1876–1946), director of the American Red Cross Nursing Service; Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), American historian, author, women's suffrage activist
Ritter's official cause of death was an undetected aortic dissection, when the body's main artery, aka the aorta, tears. However, doctors initially thought the actor was experiencing a heart attack.
Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the 20th century. A history professor at Columbia University , Beard's influence is primarily due to his publications in the fields of history and political science .