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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.
Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state) (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of women in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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 ]
I will not play by its rules," vowed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, who has been on hunger strike in a Georgian jail for 25 days. The founder of two news websites in Georgia, her health is declining ...
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 ...