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[66] [67] Other suffragists pointed out that it was short-sighted of Georgia to reject women's suffrage. [68] Anti-suffragist Mildred Rutherford was the only one to speak against women's suffrage. [68] By July 7, members of the House tried to table Jackson's rejection bill and the bill in Senate faced the same fate later in the month. [69]
Former slave, Georgia's first African-American Catholic nun [56] Louise Frederick Hays (1881–1951) 2004 Historian, director Georgia Department of Archives and History [57] Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863–1962) 2004 Social activist [58] Sarah McLendon Murphy (1892–1954) 2004 Children's activist [59] Emily Barnelia Woodward (1885–1970) 2004 ...
Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw (born 1864) was a British Suffragette and writer. She was twice arrested and she was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal.She later set out on a caravan journey in the 1920s to cross America from California to New York.
In January 1964, President Johnson gave Sargent Shriver the task of developing a bill to wage the war against poverty in the United States. The bill was presented to Congress in March, 1964. It was introduced in the House by Representative Phil M. Landrum, (D Georgia), and in the Senate by Senator Pat McNamara, (D Michigan). In the Senate, the ...
A long period of prosperity due to post–World War II economic expansion resulted in a large decrease in the number of people below the poverty line during the 1960s. Still, blacks and other minorities had a poverty rate three times that of whites, and poverty in the deep South, urban ghettos, and Indian Reservations was associated with starvation, hunger, and malnutrition.
The Georgia Federation of Labor endorses women's suffrage. [3] Georgia creates white primaries. [9] 1901. November: GWSA holds their annual convention. [3] 1902. Women in Atlanta petition the local government to vote in municipal elections, but they are rejected. [3] November: GWSA holds their annual convention in Atlanta at the Universalist ...
Poverty is the chief cause of the endemic amounts of disease and hunger and malnutrition among this population. [30] A disproportionate number of cases of the AIDS epidemic in North America are from American minorities, with 72% of women's AIDS cases among Hispanic or African-American women. [ 18 ]
RESULTS is a US non-partisan citizens' advocacy organization founded in 1980.. The organization aims to find long-term solutions to poverty by focusing on its root causes. It lobbies public officials, does research, and works with the media and the public to fight hunger and poverty.