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“Deserting The Broad And Easy Way”: Southern Methodist Women, The Social Gospel, And The New Deal State, 1909-1939, Chelsea Hodge

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Over the course of three decades, white southern Methodist women took on issues of labor and poverty through their national women’s organization, the Woman’s Missionary Council (WMC). Between 1909 and 1939, the WMC focused their work on five groups of people they viewed as in need of their help: women, children, black southerners, immigrants, and rural people. Motivated by the Social Gospel and an intense belief that their faith led them to effect real change in the American South, the WMC intervened in people’s lives, pursuing reform that could at times be maternalistic and condescending but at other times radical …

Mckenzie, Ellen, Caroline Wheeler, Marwa Ibrahim

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

This interview features Ellen McKenzie, an African-American lesbian woman living in Portland, Maine. Having lived in Portland for almost her entire life, Ellen can provide insight on growing up in one of the only black families in her community, the intersections between race and sexuality, co-parenting children from a spouse’s previous marriage and generally navigating the world and her career as a queer woman of color. Throughout this interview, we hear a lot about her childhood and her family’s history as civil rights activists in Maine, her relationship with her spouse and and co-parenting their children with both her spouse, …

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 …

Writings: Miscellaneous Jacksonville Women’S Network Speeches, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Speeches: Jacksonville Women’s Network and its history, it includes a letter from the Tampa Athena Society, Inc. No date.

Presentation Notes, Grady Johnson

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Presentation notes about Edna Saffy by Grady Johnson delivered at the UNF Library Dean's Council Gratitude Reception, November 2015.

Lg Ms 027 Diane Elze Papers Finding Aid, Elizabeth Sistare, Nicholas Martin

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A 1978 graduate of the University of Maine, Orono, Diane Elze began her volunteer career working for the YWCA Fair Harbor Shelter in Portland, Maine. She was an activist in the LGBT community in the Portland area in the 1980s and 1990s. Among other activities, she was a founding member of the Maine Lesbian Gay Political Alliance, worked on the AIDS Project, and founded the LGBT youth group, Outright. She also edited the newsletter Moving, The Newspaper of the Maine Association of Handicapped Persons and founded the statewide gay and lesbian newspaper, Our Paper. Elze earned a Master’s Degree …

Race, Sex, And Rulemaking: Administrative Constitutionalism And The Workplace, 1960 To The Present, Sophia Z. Lee

All Faculty Scholarship

This Article uses the history of equal employment rulemaking at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Power Commission (FPC) to document and analyze, for the first time, how administrative agencies interpret the Constitution. Although it is widely recognized that administrators must implement policy with an eye on the Constitution, neither constitutional nor administrative law scholarship has examined how administrators approach constitutional interpretation. Indeed, there is limited understanding of agencies’ core task of interpreting statutes, let alone of their constitutional practice. During the 1960s and 1970s, officials at the FCC relied on a strikingly broad and affirmative interpretation of …

Gay And Lesbian Elders: History, Law, And Identity Politics In The United States, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

The approximately two million gay and lesbian elders in the United States are an underserved and understudied population. At a time when gay men and lesbians enjoy an unprecedented degree of social acceptance and legal protection, many elders face the daily challenges of aging isolated from family, detached from the larger gay and lesbian community, and ignored by mainstream aging initiatives. Drawing on materials from law, history, and social theory, this book integrates practical proposals for reform with larger issues of sexuality and identity. Beginning with a summary of existing demographic data and offering a historical overview of pre-Stonewall views …

Writings: Syrian American Women’S Club December 4, 2008, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Speeches: Presented to the Syrian American Women’s Club December 4, 2008 by Dr. Edna Saffy.

Writings: Transcript - A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville Before Consolidation, Edna Louise Saffy, James B. Crooks, David Milam, Jay Mooney, Raymond Neal, Louis H. Ritter, Carolyn L. Williams, Alton Yates

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Speeches: A transcription of A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville Before Consolidation - A Panel Discussion Commemorating 38 Years of Consolidated Government October 21, 2006.

Writings: “A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville Before Consolidation" October 21, 2006, Edna Louise Saffy

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Speeches: " A Bold New Revolution: Jacksonville Before Consolidation" -presented on October 21, 2006, at the Downtown Jacksonville Public Library by Edna Saffy, PH.D.

Correspondence: Thank You Note 2/20/04, Planned Parenthood Note Card, Carole Ann Steiger

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Thank you letter to Dr. Edna L. Saffy.

Flyer: Commemorate The Women's Movement In Jacksonville, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Flyer for Women’s Equality Day program Balis Park in San Marco, Jacksonville, Florida August 26, 2000.

Program: A Commemoration Of Women's History Program August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy

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Women's Equality Day Eighty Years of Women's Suffrage Thirty Years of Jacksonville Women's Movement August 26, 2000 9 A.M. Includes program, and Procession of Honor to Mary Nolan’s grave. Program Committee: Karen Danko, Cathy Drompp, Pam Flynn, Sharon Laird, Edna Saffy, Judy Sheklin, Elizabeth Teague and Louise Stanton Warren.

Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida. In Celebration Of Women On August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy

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Speeches: Version of the program delivered on August 26, 2000 by Dr. Edna L. Saffy commemorating Women’s Equality Day, eighty years of woman’s suffrage and thirty years of the Jacksonville Women’s Movement.

Hate Crimes By Teens Disturbing, Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

If the stories of hate crimes told at last week's "Bridges of Respect" conference in Ellsworth are any indication, Maine has a long way to go in educating its youths about tolerance and respect for civil rights.

Slurs Bring Civil Suit Against Um Student, Kathryn Ritchie, Paul Livingstone

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The Maine Attorney General's Office filed a civil suit yesterday against a University of Maine student who allegedly used the FirstClass [email] computer system to make threatening statements directed at gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The suit claims Casey Belanger, 19, of Orono, violated the Maine Civil Rights Act... "Bias motivated threats of violence have absolutely no place anywhere in society, including our universities and colleges," Attorney General Andrew Ketterer said.

Relativism, Reflective Equilibrium, And Justice, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

THIS PAPER IS THE CO-WINNER OF THE FRED BERGER PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW FOR THE 1999 AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BEST PUBLISHED PAPER IN THE PREVIOUS TWO YEARS.

The conflict between liberal legal theory and critical legal studies (CLS) is often framed as a matter of whether there is a theory of justice that the law should embody which all rational people could or must accept. In a divided society, the CLS critique of this view is overwhelming: there is no such justice that can command universal assent. But the liberal critique of CLS, that it degenerates into …

Anti-Gay Referendum [Sic] May Affect Maine Students, Malcolm Smith

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The rights of students protected under the sexual orientation classification of the school's non-discrimination policy may be threatened if a state-wide organization gets a referendum question on the 1995 ballot.

Strip Offends Reader, Michael T. Johnson

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

I am writing in regard to recent episodes of the locally written comic strip, "Screwballs," that the Campus prints. The episodes that I am concerned with are the ones depicting the Wilde Stein Club members as evil, neo-Nazi monsters.

Screwballs "Wilde-Stench", Tom Higgins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Four-panel comic strip penned by Maine Campus staff member Tom Higgins. Long-description follows: Panel 1. The scene is on a sidewalk in an outdoor setting. Pillowy clouds dot the sky. An academic-looking building is in the background. Walking past "Tank," a muscular, straight, white, cis-gender male with flat-top haircut is on a sidewalk is a line of knee-high, non-gender specific individuals dressed in leotards and tutus, carrying star-topped wands on their shoulders and wearing spiked helmets or Pickelhaube, worn by members of the German military during the second reich. One of the knee-high individuals is turned toward the character "Tank," …

Homophobia; An Obstacle For Gay Communities, E. J. Vongher

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"Homophobia," the fear of homosexuality, is a major obstacle which inhibits universities from acknowledging the needs of the homosexual portion of their communities, a speaker for the Women In Curriculum program said last week. Lee Nicoloff, a staff psychologist, cooperating assistant professor in education and self-proclaimed homosexual, said things won't change for faculty, staff and administrators. Note: The page 1 article appears to have been truncated during the layout process and the continuation not published.

Juveniles Plead Guilty, Rick Lawes

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Three juveniles charged with the killing of Bangor homosexual in July pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 3rd District Court Monday afternoon in Bangor.

Local Group Holds Protest March For Dead Man, Rick Lawes

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

About 60 members of the Bangor Area Gay, Lesbian, Straight Coalition held a protest march Monday night protesting the "lenient and irresponsible" prosecution of three juveniles involved in the killings of [Charlie Howard] a Bangor homosexual in July.

Commentary: Bathroom Graffiti, Ed Carroll

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Commentary piece about offensive, homophobic bathroom graffiti commenting on the murder of Charlie Howard in Bangor, Maine.

Gay Rights Issue In Legislature, Tammy Eves

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

While UMO's Wilde-Stein Club was making plans this week for the sixth annual Maine Gay Symposium, the legislature was confronting possible anti-homosexual legislation, sponsored by Rep. Stanley E. Laffin of Westbrook.

A Gay Scare, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The "Red Scare" of the fifties, when Communists were supposedly infiltrating every facet of life in the U.S., has been replaced by the "Gay Scare" of the seventies. An the ones who perpetuate the "Gay Scare" are as close-minded, misinformed and scared as the late Senator Joseph McCarthy was when he vigorously campaigned against the Community ghosts.

Abortion Interest Movement Of South Carolina Records - Accession 67, Abortion Movement Of South Carolina

Manuscript Collection

The Abortion Interest Movement of South Carolina Records consist of correspondence, speeches, brochures, pamphlets, studies, newspaper clippings, and other records concerning abortion reform not only in South Carolina but in other states. The collection offers a good source of information on the movement to repeal abortion laws not only in South Carolina but also in other parts of the United States and in Europe. The Abortion Interest Movement (AIM) was organized in March, 1969 and developed as an extension of the People for Abortion Reform/Repeal. Its purpose is “to educate the citizens of South Carolina about the need for modern …

Reaching The 'Ignorant' Is Gay Challenge, Steven G. Bull

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Now that the long-awaited Maine Gay Symposium has passed, I have a few reflections on its implications, the future of the Wilde-Stein Club on this campus, and the reactions of the university community.

Maine Gay Symposium Stresses Two Themes: A Re-Evaluation Of The Homosexual Self-Image And 'Coming Out', Bill Ferguson, Steve Ward

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"Homosexuality and gay liberation are symptoms of a sexually healthy society," said activist Morty Manford at the Maine Gay Symposium here Saturday. Over 300 paying observers attended the well-organized gathering which met with no violent opposition, picketing, or demonstrations as had been feared by some UMO administrators. A team of four campus policemen guarded the affair which was sponsored by the Wilde-Stein Club, UMO's gay group.