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News Clipping, May Pole Party Next Friday. - Movement For Boys' Home, 2025 University of North Florida

News Clipping, May Pole Party Next Friday. - Movement For Boys' Home

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Clipping regarding May pole party, State Board of Health building. Article mentions Eartha White, and Boys Home meeting. Undated.


Free Soup And Bread Meal Card, 2025 University of North Florida

Free Soup And Bread Meal Card

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Free soup and bread, Daily 12 to 1 P.M., 233 West First St., for the hungry unemployed, white and colored. Undated.


Memorial Day Services Program, 2025 University of North Florida

Memorial Day Services Program

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Program for a Memorial Day service. Undated.


Tentative Memorial Day Service Program, 2025 University of North Florida

Tentative Memorial Day Service Program

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Tentative activities for Memorial Day services. Undated.


In Loving Memory Of Mrs. Clara White, Mother, Memorial, 2025 University of North Florida

In Loving Memory Of Mrs. Clara White, Mother, Memorial

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Memorial: Memorial for Mother (Clara White), image of Eartha M. M. White standing next to her mother, Clara White. With poem appended. Undated.


Clara White, 2025 University of North Florida

Clara White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Image of Clara White with biographical information. Undated.


Break Thou The Bread Of Life, Poem, Eartha M.M. White 2025 University of North Florida

Break Thou The Bread Of Life, Poem, Eartha M.M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Poem written by Eartha White in memory of her mother. Handwritten notes on reverse. Undated.


Thank You Note From Loretha Myers To Clara White, 2025 University of North Florida

Thank You Note From Loretha Myers To Clara White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note: Thank you note Mrs. Clara White from the Women Church Choir and Loretha Myers. Undated.


Postcard With Note About The Boys Improvement Club, 2025 University of North Florida

Postcard With Note About The Boys Improvement Club

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Postcard: View From thousand Island House postcard with note regarding the Boys Improvement Club organized in 1904 by Eartha White. Transcription included. Undated.


Clara White Mission, Art Display Notes, 2025 University of North Florida

Clara White Mission, Art Display Notes

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Notes on Art Display at the Clara White Mission. Undated. S-250


Minstrel Show News Release And Newsclipping: Launch Efforts To Save 1,000 Boys From Court, 2025 University of North Florida

Minstrel Show News Release And Newsclipping: Launch Efforts To Save 1,000 Boys From Court

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News release: Minstrel show, "It Pays to Go Straight," written by Eartha White. Presented by the Clara White Mission at the Knights of Pythias Auditorium for the benefit of the Boys Improvement Club. News clipping: Launch Efforts to Save 1,000 Boys From Court, included. Undated.


News Clipping, Clara White Mission Ready For Annual Outing July 16, 2025 University of North Florida

News Clipping, Clara White Mission Ready For Annual Outing July 16

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Article regarding the annual summer outing of the Clara White Mission [to Moncrief Springs, Jacksonville, Florida] held on July 16. Undated.


Dedication Of Maternity Home Notes, 2025 University of North Florida

Dedication Of Maternity Home Notes

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note: Dedication of Maternity Home, 1449 Milnor Street, Jacksonville, Florida. September 22. Undated.


Junior Girls Auxiliary Of The Riverside Baptist Church Easter Party Held At The Clara White Mission, 2025 University of North Florida

Junior Girls Auxiliary Of The Riverside Baptist Church Easter Party Held At The Clara White Mission

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News Release: Easter party for the Junior Girls Auxiliary of the Riverside Baptist Church held in the auditorium of the Clara White Mission. Undated.


Clara White Mission Benefit 5 Cent Ticket, 2025 University of North Florida

Clara White Mission Benefit 5 Cent Ticket

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Ticket: Benefit - Clara White Mission - 5c. Handwritten on reverse: Francis Jackson. Undated.


Harlem’S Avenues For Agency: An Exploration Of Black Female Agency In Angelina Weld Grimké And Zora Neale Hurston’S Short Stories, Jessica Ellen Hartenbower 2025 University of Denver

Harlem’S Avenues For Agency: An Exploration Of Black Female Agency In Angelina Weld Grimké And Zora Neale Hurston’S Short Stories, Jessica Ellen Hartenbower

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores themes of Black female agency in selected short stories by Angelina Weld Grimké and Zora Neale Hurston. Pushing back against the belief that the Harlem Renaissaince was a movement solely for male artists, Grimké and Hurston write short stories that center Black women and their experiences. Through the avenues of bodily autonomy, the using or silencing of voice, the opportunity and ability to make choices, issues of justice, retribution, and vengeance, the holding of authority, and being empowered or disempowered, I examine the female characters’ exercising of their agency to varying degrees. I also discuss how religious …


Exploring The Effects Of Africana Studies On Black Undergraduate Students: A Qualitative Case Study, LaNaya M. Butler 2025 University of Denver

Exploring The Effects Of Africana Studies On Black Undergraduate Students: A Qualitative Case Study, Lanaya M. Butler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Particularly in the context of American K-12 schools, education has been manipulated to control—rather than liberate—students through the erasure and distortion of Black history, experiences, perspectives, and capabilities. Additionally, American schools prioritize memorization and obedience while failing to equip students with critical thinking skills. As a result, students are trained to become workers rather than innovators, worldbuilders, and change-makers. For nearly a century, Black educational critics have stated that these systems were designed to subjugate Black community members through dehumanization and enslavement of the mind. These critiques are foundational to the aims of Afrocentric education which posits the life experiences …


Who Gets To Be A Child And When? The Pervasive Yet Contextually Shaped Nature Of Racialized Adultification Across Perceivers And Contexts, Kevin M. Summers 2025 University of Denver

Who Gets To Be A Child And When? The Pervasive Yet Contextually Shaped Nature Of Racialized Adultification Across Perceivers And Contexts, Kevin M. Summers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Racialized adultification is a pervasive bias in which individuals tend to judge Black children as older and more adult-like than White children of the same age. This racial bias is discussed across many scientific domains in addition to popular media, yet there is relatively little empirical work documenting its existence, consequences, and boundary conditions. In the current work, I aim to develop an empirical foundation that advances scientific understanding of racialized adultification and in turn contributes to a growing model that elucidates the conditions under which individuals are disproportionately likely to express this pernicious bias. In the current work, I …


Intersectional Realities, Multi-Dimensional Films: Reading Julie Dash's Illusions As An Activist Text, Amelia Morrison 2025 Portland State University

Intersectional Realities, Multi-Dimensional Films: Reading Julie Dash's Illusions As An Activist Text, Amelia Morrison

University Honors Theses

This paper reads Julie Dash's 1982 film Illusions as an activist text, which challenges dominant cinematic and historical narratives through its Black feminist perspective. It explores the cinematic and narrative devices that Dash uses--including the weaving of fantasy and history, the strategic use of period aesthetics, and masking--to expose and subvert the mechanisms of white supremacist and patriarchal hegemony within Hollywood. Drawing on intersectional feminist theory from scholars like Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, and bell hooks, alongside cinematic theory, this analysis demonstrates how Illusions critiques the historical erasure of people of color from United States cinema and history. By …


Is She Being “Fast?”: Exploration Of African American Women’S Experience With Sexual Objectification, Alaigra V.R. Usher 2025 University of Denver

Is She Being “Fast?”: Exploration Of African American Women’S Experience With Sexual Objectification, Alaigra V.R. Usher

Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects

Issues of sexual objectification have been intertwined in America’s history since enslavement. This phenomenology study aimed to explore African American women’s lived experiences with sexual objectification and to understand the essential themes and conceptualizations that African American women attribute to sexual objectification. Through semi-structured interviews with a criterion sampling of African American women, the research sought to identify core themes surrounding sexual objectification experiences. In the results of this study, it was found that this population conceptualizes their sexual objectification experiences through seven themes: Earliest Sexual Objectification Experiences (SOE), SOE, Responses to SOE, Parental Protection, Reasons for SOE, SOE places, …


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