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News Clipping, Made Colonel In Chicago

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Clipping with an image of Eartha M. M. White regarding her appointment as Colonel by General M. M. Bethune of National Defense Office, The Wands. Undated.

News Clipping, Annual Meeting Held At Mission

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Clipping regarding the annual meeting of the Clara White Mission, held at the mission, 613 W. Ashley Street, Jacksonville, Florida. Undated.

Letter From Babson's Statistical Organization To Clients

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Letter From Ralph B. Wilson, Vice President of Babson's Statistical Organization, Babson Park, Massachusetts, concerning business reports. Includes handwritten notes on reverse regarding yearly statistics for deaths and meals from September to September. Undated.

Clara White Mission Form For Meals And Relief

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Blank statistical form for meals and relief given at Clara White Mission. Undated.

Annual Report Of Persons Served, Clara White Mission

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Handwritten statistics for annual report of persons served at the Clara White Mission. Undated.

Publicity Card, Community Center For Colored People

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Publicity for Community Center for Colored People, 519 West Gwinnett Street, Savannah, Georgia. The Center was under the supervision of Eartha White during World War I. Undated.

War Work Compaign Mass Meeting Leaflet, November 4

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: War Work Campaign Mass Meeting, at Big Zion Tabernacle. Eartha M. M. White, State Chairman of Colored Women's Section of the Council of National Defense and Organizer for United War Work Campaign, listed as one of the speakers. Undated.

A Layin On Of Hands: Black Feminist Healing Arts As Wake Work, Lei'anna Gladden

Theses - ALL

A Layin on of Hands: Black Feminist Healing Arts as Wake Work explores the work of two Black femme artists who engage in ritualized theater performance. This thesis examines the creations of Oakland-based artist Amara Tabor Smith, a ritual dance theater artist, and New York-based theater ceremonialist Ebony Noelle Golden. The project examines each artist’s unique artistic and spiritual practices as forms of immaterial, emotional, psychic, and social intervention in the afterlives of slavery, which impact Black life. Methodologically, this thesis depends on oral histories, performance analysis, and participant observation to document and explore the emotional, ecological, and spiritual effects …

Living Heritage, Resilience And Ethically Informed Infrastructures In Malawi, Martha B. Lerski, Frank Puluputu Mwale

Publications and Research

Rooted in a rural community’s needs, this paper explores how historically, and ethically informed infrastructures can support community engagement towards identification, documentation, and dissemination of local, traditional, and indigenous knowledge relating to climate change. The paper examines climate adaptation and sustainability issues through the lenses of community organizing and Library & Information Science best practices. It draws on a growing body of literature identifying a role for expanded epistemological and subject discipline perspectives. While the impacts of climate on material culture are increasingly recognized, intangible, and biocultural heritage have not received as much attention. Living heritage traditions and knowledge systems …

Where Do I Belong? What Should I Call Home?, Viplav Bhaskar Subramanian

Deliberately Queer Journal

Employing autoethnography, this reflection explores the contestations of home-place for queer racialized identities. Tony Adams asserts the vitality of such an embodied investigation when speaking about intersectionally assembled marginalized communities and identities through stating, “I turned to writing stories that others could use in times of relational distress […] by doing and living autoethnography” (Jones et al., 2013, p. 21). In this piece, I delve into my lived experiences, chartering conceptions of belonging while integrating personal stories and theoretical discourses. Such an embodiment, as expressed by Ellingson (2017), considers the body as “simultaneously physical and affective, social and individual, produced …

News Clipping, Mission Thanks Many For Aid

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Article regarding the list of the donors who made Christmas Dinners for the Blind and for Newsies and Bootblacks, possible for the Clara White Mission. Includes partial article regarding Jax Christmas Cheer Clubs, "Kiddies and Poor Aided Christmas". Undated.

Receipt From A. J. Hill To Eartha White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Handwritten receipt to Eartha M. M. White from A. J. Hill for seventeen dollars. Clara White Mission bills and receipts. Undated.

Receipt From A. Gaff For Hanging Door

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Handwritten receipt on reverse of envelope, A. Gaff for one dollar and fifty cents for hanging door. Clara White Mission bills and receipts. Undated.

Receipt From National Bellas Hess Co. Inc.

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Receipt from National Bellas Hess Company, for eighty-nine cents, March 7, for illegible item. Clara White Mission bills and receipts. Undated.

Christmas Party Invitation From The Merry Hearts Club

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Invitation from the Merry Hearts Club, sponsored by The Clara White Mission, for a Christmas party at Stanton High School. Undated.

Thank You Card From Merry Hearts Club

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Thank you from The Merry Hearts Club, Eartha M. M. White, President. Undated.

Understanding The Perspectives Of African American Women Towards Initiating A Fitness Program, Clarissa Sheneka Davis Best

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

African American women residing in rural communities have seen substantial increases in preventable diseases resulting from obesity. The research problem addressed in this study surrounded the perspectives that African American women have towards initiating a fitness program. The purpose of this study was to explore those perspectives utilizing a sample population of African American women living in Salisbury, North Carolina. This study embraced the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) created by Prachaseree et al., (2021) and the Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1991) as the conceptual frameworks. Three research questions guiding this study were: What specific barriers do African American …

Sharon Kyle, Mark Naison

Oral Histories

Abstract

Interviewer: Mark Naison, Stephanie Robinson-Ramirez, Shellae Versey

Interviewee: Sharon Kyle

Sharon Kyle’s philosophy for living is one foot in front of the other, one day at a time. This philosophy has made her a prominent figure in the critical news site LA Progressive, and guided her life journey from the Bronx to NASA and law school. Born in 1957, she grew up in the Edenwald projects, where she faced challenges like domestic violence and being surrounded by drug use. She was the sole advocate for her education, without any help or guidance from her parents regarding her intellectual path. …

Luis Cedeno, Mark Naison

Oral Histories

Luis Cedono was born August 11, 1961 to Puerto Rican and Cuban parents. His mother was a factory worker while his father worked in the hospital. He was born at Fordham Hospital, which currently does not exist and lived on Webster Avenue for the first few years of his life. He would spend the rest of his childhood on Ryder Avenue near Grand Concourse.

Luis describes the racial barriers in his neighborhood. He says there were clear color lines within the neighborhood saying that if a Latino or black went “above Aloe Park, they were dead meat”. Despite this characteristic, …

Christelle Onwu, Mark Naison

Oral Histories

Abstract

Interviewer: Mark Naison, Stephanie Robinson-Ramirez, Jane Kani Edward

Interviewee: Christelle Onwu

Christelle Onwu’s profound work demonstrates the importance of advocacy and research in changing policies and improving community engagement. Through her experiences with helping children through social work, she realized that the way in which she could truly make change was through policy work and reworking the cultivation of systems to ensure the success of future generations. Christelle, originally from Cameroon, arrived in the U.S. at 17 and attended John Jay College, where she excelled academically and received multiple scholarships. Through her excellence, she has been recognized as one …