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And They Entered As Ladies: When Race, Class And Black Femininity Clashed At Central High School, Misti Nicole Harper
And They Entered As Ladies: When Race, Class And Black Femininity Clashed At Central High School, Misti Nicole Harper
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
“And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School,” explores the intersectionality of race, gender and class status as middle-class black women led the integration movement and were the focal point of white backlash during the 1957 Little Rock Central High School crisis. Six of the nine black students chosen to integrate Central High School were carefully selected girls from middle-class homes, whose mothers and female family members played active parts in keeping their daughters enrolled at Central, while Daisy Gatson Bates orchestrated the integration of the capital’s school system. Nevertheless, these women …
24th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference 2011, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society
24th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference 2011, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Poster for the 24th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference, Museum of Florida Art, Deland, Florida, April 15-16, 2011.
Flyer: Cross Creek Wilderness Safaris Bird List And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Ephemera, Cross Creek Wilderness Safaris
Flyer: Cross Creek Wilderness Safaris Bird List And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Ephemera, Cross Creek Wilderness Safaris
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Bird checklist for Lake Lochloosa and Cross Creek. Includes supplemental files: MKR Society nametags, Society Results, National Historic Landmark bookmarks, print of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings home, newsletter, an invitation to a tribute to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the 50th anniversary of her death, flyer for Cross Creek Wilderness Safaris, and a flyer for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Stamp.
Card: Thank You Note From President Bill Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton
Card: Thank You Note From President Bill Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Note: To Edna Saffy, your support and friendship during my first term have meant much to me and our administration. Thank you. Bill Clinton.
Certificate Of Subject Of Biographical Record In "Who's Who In The South And Southwest", Marquis Who's Who Publication Board
Certificate Of Subject Of Biographical Record In "Who's Who In The South And Southwest", Marquis Who's Who Publication Board
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
The Marquis Who’s Who Publication Board Certifies the Edna. L. Saffy is a subject of biographical record in Who’s Who in the South and Southwest Eighteenth Edition 1982/1983 inclusion in which is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their own fields of endeavor and who have, thereby, contributed significantly to the betterment of contemporary society.
2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation, Otterbein University
2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation, Otterbein University
MLK Convocations
Otterbein University honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. each year at an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation which features a keynote speaker. This year's speakers included several speeches & performances by Otterbein Students.
Racial Injustice In Houston, Texas: The Mexican American Mobilization Against The Police Killing Of Joe Campos Torres, Melanie Rodriguez Rodriguez
Racial Injustice In Houston, Texas: The Mexican American Mobilization Against The Police Killing Of Joe Campos Torres, Melanie Rodriguez Rodriguez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This study examines the Houston Police Departmentâ??s (the HPD) relations with the ethnic-Mexican community across four decades to consider how the police killing of Joe Campos Torres sparked a wave of protest that ensured that cityâ??s long history of police brutality against ethnic Mexicans and other minorities (especially African Americans) came to the forefront in Texas, if not the nation in general. The HPD was a mechanisms of the cityâ??s status quo that reinforced the racial dominance of white Houstonians. From 1940 to 1970, the HPD found it necessary to implement effective police models to control wayward minorities and uphold …