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Ms. Beverly Bowens On Leisure, Vanessa Saric

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Vanesa Saric

Interviewee: Ms. Beverly Bowens (born in Maine; age 67; left at 21 years old for about 35 to 40 years and then returned to Maine)

“Actually, I'm a product of my environment. So when I went to New York, I had difficulty getting used to, for instance, going to a party, 8 o'clock. And even though in New York a party starts at eight, no one comes until ten. I go to bed early, and I get up very early. And this is something that I found a little bit different when I was in New York. …

African-American Life Writing: Harriet Jacobs And Bell Hooks, Luo Yi

Masters Theses

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and bell hooks' Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood share a common concern with emancipation and employ complementary rhetorical strategies. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl presents Harriet Jacobs' journey of personal self-discovery through various relationships with others, and her personal narrative finally serves the larger goal of emancipation for her people. Jacobs' narrative is full of other voices, or personae. Even the narrator, Linda Brent, is pseudonymous, or "other," in this sense. Jacobs invokes these personae in her autobiography; she explores her experiences as a web of …

Black Women In Durham Politics, 1950-1996: From Grassroots To Electoral Politics, Grace Walton

New England Journal of Public Policy

Based on the author's senior thesis in African-American history; this article about black women by a black woman was conceived to educate Americans about a different kind of history. It illustrates the silent political struggles of black women in Durham, North Carolina, and their gradual acceptance into American politics from 1950 to 1996. The oral history design demonstrates that black women's political activity underwent a transformation from grassroots politics to full electoral participation, which brought them to the forefront of Durham politics. Through both types of political activity, the unique political consciousness of black women continues to have a great …

Race, Poverty And Education In The 21st Century, Joan Wallace-Benjamin

Trotter Review

I am here as the president of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts. I am here as a woman. I am here as a partner in the struggle for equal opportunity and access for - women, men, young people, the elderly, Black, white, Latino and Asian, who are not able to fully enjoy the educational, economic and social benefits of our American society. I am here as a colleague of Mary's, [Mary Lassen, Executive Director, Women's Educational and Industrial Union] who works with commitment and passion on these same issues and with whom I have collaborated and will continue to …

Women Creating Social Capital And Social Change, Marilyn Gittell, Isolda Ortega-Bustamante, Tracey Steffy

Trotter Review

As Community Development Organizations (CDOs) are the primary vehicle for development in low-income neighborhoods, scholars have begun to examine them in terms of the degree to which they increase citizen participation, increase civic capacity, as well as stabilize and revitalize neighborhoods through the creation of social capital. According to Putnam, civic action requires the existence of social capital; he defines social capital as "norms, trust, and networks." As Gittell and Vidal note, there has been a "virtual industry of interest and action created around the implication of Putnam's findings for the development of low-income communities."

This article is an excerpt …

An Interview With Brooke Stephens, Nina Lanegra

Trotter Review

Desperate women losing a daily battle against the stranglehold and cycle of poverty: this is what comes to mind when I think of Women and Economic Development. It's an international picture, Third World countries struggling with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. I was challenged to think of any linkage between Women and Economic Development on both an international and domestic level. My search led me to this interview with Brooke Stephens, author and Wall Street veteran of 15 years who has been a senior investment consultant. Stockbroker, and a Registered Investment Advisor. Ms. Stephens comments on financial …

Black Women In The Economy: Facing Glass Ceilings In Academia, Bette Woody, Diane Brown, Teresa Green

Trotter Review

The shrinking population of Black male doctoral degree holders may hold much of the key to the problems of Black women. Declines in Black male interest in doctoral degrees, has clearly not spelled gains for the recruitment of Black female scholars. New evidence of these patterns is visible in the latest government data on academic achievement of Black women and teaching job success. While Black women are achieving at high rates, they are also systematically by-passed by an expanded recruitment of African and Caribbean males to fill teaching positions in doctoral and research institutions. This new trend has probably reduced …

Bigger Than A Ballot Box, Joanne Goodwin

History Faculty Research

The relationship between the histories of woman suffrage and U.S. politics suffered from a reluctance on the part of both fields to include the other until recently. Political historians refrained from in-depth discussions of the eighty-year movement to gain the vote for women until the new political history expanded the definition of political actors and activities. Women's historians (with a few notable exceptions) discussed the suffrage movement as a type of voluntarist reform activity, rather than contextualizing it within political institutions and systems. Ellen Carol DuBois's study of suffrage through the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments departed significantly …

A Portrayal Of The Work Life Of Tenured African-American Female Faculty Working Within Historically White, Public Institutions Of Higher Education In Virginia, Carol A. Wilson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to portray the experiences of African-American tenured female faculty employed within Historically White, public institutions of higher education in Virginia. This study is a portrait of the career paths, teaching experiences, institutional experiences, community and personal activities, work life, and the future of African-Americans. The study focused on personal experiences and provided a grounded recording for other African-American female faculty members employed within comparable institutions of higher education. The interviews also addressed educational preparation, mentoring, expectations, frustrations, difficulties, cultural and collegial experiences. Participants' audio taped responses were transcribed. Similarities that evolved from the discussions …

Ua12/2/1 Coming Out Of The Shadows, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special women's basketball issue of the College Heights Herald.

• Lady Toppers 1996-97 Schedule
• Moore, Leigh. With Two Stars Gone, Whole Team Ready to Shine
• Brewer, Jerry. Smaller Lineup Will Rely on Quickness, Athleticism
• Brewer, Jerry. Sun Belt Gains Power
• Mayo, Travis. More to Lady Tops Than Basketball
• Sisco, Scott. Wendi Kitsteiner Relishes Family, Mothering Role
• Moore, Leigh. Katashia Witcher’s Goal This Year: To Be Family’s First Graduate
• Moore, Leigh. Low-key Shea Lunsford Could Be Dominant for Lady Toppers
• Mayo, Travis. Kristi Hartley Fighting Injuries
• Brewer, Jerry. Jaime Walz Looking to Cut Loose
• Mayo, Travis. Jamie Britt Scraps for Success
• Brewer, …

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 097 And 098, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 099 And 100, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

O Lenço Da Minha Mãe...A Reflection, Alicia Veiga

The Griot

A young Cape Verdean woman reflects on the head scarf worn by her mother. The head scarf serves as a symbol of her mother's strength, culture and constant presence in her life despite a move from Cape Verde to the United States.

African-American Female College Presidents And Leadership Styles, Runae Edwards Wilson

Trotter Review

The leadership characteristics of African-American female college and university presidents have rarely been studied. The lack of research in this area is due, in part, to the absence of African-American females in leadership positions at four year higher education institutions. A contributing factor to the shortage of African-American female top level administrators is the "double whammy," or belonging to two groups that are discriminated against, African-Americans and females. The wage gap, institutional kinship, the old boy system, and role prejudice (a preconceived preference for specific behavior by the visibly identifiable group) are factors that have proved prohibitive to the ascension …

Ua12/2/1 Traditions: Homecoming 1997, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special homecoming edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Alumni to Be Recognized for Leadership, Service – Hall of Distinguished Alumni, Michael Card, Kenneth Fleenor, William Sanders, Hays Watkins, Marnel Mooreman
• Stamper, John. Homecoming Traditions Change Through the Years
• Hall, Jason. Big Red: Mascot Brings 18 Years of Cheers, Sneers
• Smith, Scheri. Hill Coming Alive with Music
• Siria, Stephanie. Greeks Decorating for Hill’s Haunted Homecoming – Halloween
• Hutchins, Chris. Thrill on the Hill: Ghosts, Spooks Haunt Western – Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Pearce-Ford Tower, Potter Hall, Van Meter Hall
• Harper, Molly. End of World War II Brought Good Times Back to Western …

Ua12/2/2 Xposure - Summer 1996, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

1996 Xposure yearbook.

• Thomas, Kim. Banshee: The Grandmother of All Parties
• Quarles, Mitchell. Talk About a Revolution – Recycle Revolution
• Guenther, Kelly. Dancing for Money: One Student’s Story of Stripping, Spending & Surviving
• Hall, Jason. Home Away from Home: Student Helps International Refugees Adjust – Dat Ly
• Witty, Patrick. Rappel
• Wade, Molly. War & Peace: Western’s Gay Community Faces Alienation, Alliances
• Hutchins, Chris. Doing It Her Way – Anna Wilson, Artists
• Root, Tonya. Serving Time – Ed Bohlander, Prisons
• Noel, Anthony. Facing Their Futures – Todd McCutcheon, Claire Davies, Charles Cecil, Carla Gantz, Paul DeHaven
• 24 Hours of Life at …

Ua12/2/7 Wku Panhellenic Council Annual Report, Charles Pride

WKU Administration Documents

Annual Panhellenic Council report regarding the 1995-96 school year.

Ua12/2/2 Xposure - Spring 1996, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

1996 Xposure yearbook.

• Davis, Amanda. College Bands
• Witty, Patrick. Keeping His Composure: Award-Winning Conductor Visits – Karel Husa
• Noel, Anthony. Eyes in the Dark – Tara Higdon, Stalking
• Gamblin, Joe. The Thursday Night Ritual – Entertainment
• Portrait Gallery – Neal Thomas, Tamico Johnson, Elin Ramberg, Larry Danielson, John Hildreth
• Shain, Kimberly. Graves of Earthly Delights: Western Students Dig for Bones of Confederate Soldiers – Archaeology, Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Wade, Molly. College Habitats – Dormitories, Apartments
• Hieb, Dan. The Underground Club – Green River Grotto, Spelunking, Caves
• 35^th Annual Student Art Competition
• Gamblin, Joe. WWF . . . Or …

Black Women In Antebellum America: Active Agents In The Fight For Freedom, Sandra M. Grayson

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

The most prominent images of Black women in antebellum America depicted in classes across the United States are of passive victims as opposed to active agents of change. The names and deeds of Black women like Frances E. W. Harper, Maria Stewart, Sarah Mapps Douglass, and Sarah Jane Giddings are not an integral part of American education. Further, most history books overlook Black women's roles in antebellum America — oversights which can be considered suppression through historical omission. In order to reflect a more accurate picture of American history, public and private school curriculums need to include texts by and …

Ua12/2/1 Knowing No Bounds, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Western at a Glance – Basketball
• Hieb, Dan. No Telling What Can Happen
• Hieb, Dan. Trio to Play Key Role in Success – Gwen Doyle, Tara Cosby, Michelle Reed
• Lori Abell’s Experience Expected to Make Big Difference to Team, Other Players
• Among Nation’s Leaders
• Ida Bowen Hoping for Injury-Free Season
• Veronica Cook Gains Confidence, Leadership This Season
• Her Pressure’s Her Own – Dawn Warner
• After Year of Experience, Forward Ready for Role – Brandi Ashby
• Sophomore Juggling Pre-Med, Preseason – Stacie Gamble
• Now Comfortable, Guard Wants More Playing Time – Jaana Heikkila
• Sun …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 70, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Ang, Dawn. Thomas Meredith’s Trip Abroad Raises Questions
• Cecil, Jill. Regents Tackle Education Lessons
• Good, Epha. Travis Tritt & Treat: 10K Festival Ends – Concerts, Entertainment
• Nations, Jeff. Runners Finish Despite Injuries – Bowling Green 10K Classic
• Two Sigma Chi’s Injured in Fight – Derek Helm, Brett Howell
• Budget Group Meets Tomorrow – Regents
• Sophomore Dies Friday in Wreck – Jason Mitz
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon Student Government Association Out of Time
• Stelzer, Kim. Don’t Be Fooled By Extremists – Gender Bias
• Carter, Carl & …

A Literary Evaluation Of Black Female Interaction In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport

English Theses & Dissertations

This Master's thesis consists of three chapters that examine the roles, circumstances and effects of racism and sexism on the black female characters in three of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved, Sula and Jazz. I propose that the elements of racism and sexism have left the female characters, Sethe, Denver, Ella, etc. in Beloved with few choices in life. Further, I suggest that the theme of "choice versus no choice" perpetuates hatred and self-hatred among black women and results in "metaphoric scarring." I explore in the characters, Sula, Eva, Hannah, Nel, and the black Bottom women, the damage inflicted on black …

Ua12/2/7 Wku Panhellenic Council Annual Report, Charles Pride

WKU Administration Documents

Annual Panhellenic Council report regarding the 1993-94 school year.

Ua12/2/1 Face-Off In Diddle Arena, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special women's basketball Sun Belt Conference tournament guide issue of the College Heights Herald:

• Varney, Dennis. Parity: NCAA Tournament Is Up For Grabs – Basketball
• Varney, Dennis. Team Trying to Regain Its Pizazz – Basketball
• Brown, Karen. Coach Tracie Garner Lets Senior Forward Keep Shooting – Dawn Beachler, University of Texas-Pan American
• Nations, Jeff. Joey Favaloro Still Bald Two Years After Louisiana Tech Win – University of New Orleans
• Nations, Jeff. Butch Stockton’s Team Hasn’t Won on Road All Season – University of South Alabama
• Anna, Cara. New Coach Leads Team Back to Tournament – Lamar University
• Batters, Tom. …

Seeking Polly, Pretty Polly, Poor Polly, Or The Granddaughter Seeks To Remember What The Grandfathers Sought To Forget, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

My great-great-great-grandmother is so special to me because I found her despite the fact that she was deliberately written out of my his-tory. And this is the story of our meeting.

Ua12/2/7 Wku Panhellenic Council Annual Report, Wku Panhellenic Council

WKU Administration Documents

Annual report of the Panhellenic Council for the year 1992-1993.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 45, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Good, Epha. Yet Another Budget Cut is Looming
• Broadbent, Stephanie. Faculty Senate Wants More Progress – Budget
• Gagliardi, Melissa. Spring Break: Students Feel Blizzard’s Bite – Winter, Snow
• Good, Epha. Fraternity Pranks Involve Goat Heads, Firecrackers, Fun – Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi
• Vaughn, Beth, et al. Country Music Still Popular at Western
• Sweeten-Garner, Lena. Women Restricted by Dangerous Society
• Hofmann, Martin. Editorial Cartoon WKU Atlas Holding NCAA World
• Brown, Larry. Homosexuality Forum for Everyone – Lambda …

Black Women And The American Political System, Dorothy A. Clark

Trotter Review

Black women and politics—it is an association rarely made by the American electorate. As a group, black women have never been prominent players in the nation's political arena. In a system of decision making and power holding designed and dominated by white men, black women are an alien group in the formal political process. Their participation in that process has been limited—indeed often blocked—by a hierarchical system of race, gender, and class oppression that relegates black women to the lowest rungs of the political power ladder.

Ua12/2 Fifteenth Annual Greek Academic Awards Banquet, Wku Interfraternity Council, Wku Panhellenic Council

Student Organizations

Greek academic awards banquet program.

Ua12/2/7 Scrapbook, Wku Panhellenic Council

Student Organizations

Scrapbook created by and about the Panhellenic Council. Includes information about Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Theta, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu, Sigma Kappa and Zeta Phi Beta.