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Thyra Johnson Edwards (December 25, 1897 – July 9, 1953) was an African-American educator, social worker, journalist, labor and civil rights activist, and women's [1] rights activist. Pan-Africanist , and communist.
She worked with Thyra J. Edwards on the Negro People's Committee to Aid Spanish Refugees, and visited Edwards in Mexico City. She was president of the Residential Council of the Emma Ransom House at the YWCA in the 1920s. In 1937, she volunteered with an outreach team of black health and social workers in the Mississippi Delta.
Salaria Kea. Salaria Kea O'Reilly (born 13 July 1913 in Milledgeville, Georgia – died 18 May 1990 in Akron, Ohio) was an American nurse and desegregation activist who volunteered in both the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. [1] During the Spanish Civil War she was the only African American nurse working in the Abraham Lincoln ...
Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer.
Harvard University has settled a lawsuit accusing the Ivy League school of ignoring sexual harassment by a professor who three graduate students said had threatened their academic careers if they ...
Louisa Ayres. Mary Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. [1] She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School (now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School)—the first African ...
History of social work. Social work as a profession dates back to years ago, with the first social welfare agencies appearing in urban areas in the 1800s. [1] It has its roots in the attempts of society at large to deal with the problem of poverty and inequality. Social work is intricately linked with the idea of charity work, but must be ...
Strength-based practice. Strength-based practice is a social work practice theory that emphasizes people's self-determination and strengths. It is a philosophy and a way of viewing clients (originally psychological patients, but in an extended sense also employees, colleagues or other persons) as resourceful and resilient in the face of ...