A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists

A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists
Author: Donna Hightower-Langston
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Women civic leaders
ISBN: 1438107927

Presents biographical profiles of American women leaders and activists, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

American Women Leaders and Activists

American Women Leaders and Activists
Author: Donna Martinez
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9781787856080

American Women Leaders and Activists, Second Edition offers fascinating coverage of notable American women who have been proven leaders andactivists in both the political and social realms.

African-American Political Leaders

African-American Political Leaders
Author: Charles W. Carey
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438107803

One of the most remarkable episodes in the history of U.S. politics is the rise to power of African-American political leaders. Although the first Africans to come to this country were treated as indentured servants

Clergy Education in America

Clergy Education in America
Author: Larry Abbott Golemon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0197552862

Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society. During certain periods of American history, members of the clergy were nearly ever-present in public life. But men and women of the clergy are not born that way, they are made. And therefore, the matter of their education is a question of fundamental public importance. In Clergy Education in America, Larry Golemon shows not only how our conception of professionalism in religious life has changed over time, but also how the education of religious leaders have influenced American culture. Tracing the history of clergy education in America from the Early Republic through the first decades of the twentieth century, Golemon tracks how the clergy has become increasingly diversified in terms of race, gender, and class in part because of this engagement with public life. At the same time, he demonstrates that as theological education became increasingly intertwined with academia the clergy's sphere of influence shrank significantly, marking a turn away from public life and a decline in their cultural influence. Clergy Education in America offers a sweeping look at an oft-overlooked but critically important aspect of American public life.

Gilded Suffragists

Gilded Suffragists
Author: Johanna Neuman
Publisher: Washington Mews Books/NYU Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1479806625

New York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like—carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable cause. Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites “trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris,” these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the streets of New York City. Johanna Neuman restores these women to their rightful place in the story of women’s suffrage. Understanding the need for popular approval for any social change, these socialites used their wealth, power, social connections and style to excite mainstream interest and to diffuse resistance to the cause. In the end, as Neuman says, when change was in the air, these women helped push women’s suffrage over the finish line.

The Politics of Authenticity

The Politics of Authenticity
Author: Joachim C. Häberlen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2018-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789200008

Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive “authenticity” that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves—their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Together they show not only how authenticity came to define varied social contexts, but also how it helped to usher in the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

Winning the War for Democracy

Winning the War for Democracy
Author: David Lucander
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 025209655X

Scholars regard the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) as a forerunner of the postwar Civil Rights movement. Led by the charismatic A. Philip Randolph, MOWM scored an early victory when it forced the Roosevelt administration to issue a landmark executive order that prohibited defense contractors from practicing racial discrimination. Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 recalls that triumph, but also looks beyond Randolph and the MOWM's national leadership to focus on the organization's evolution and actions at the local level. Using the personal papers of previously unheralded MOWM members such as T.D. McNeal, internal government documents from the Roosevelt administration, and other primary sources, David Lucander highlights how local affiliates fighting for a double victory against fascism and racism helped the national MOWM accrue the political capital it needed to effect change. Lucander details the efforts of grassroots organizers to implement MOWM's program of empowering African Americans via meetings and marches at defense plants and government buildings and, in particular, focuses on the contributions of women activists like Layle Lane, E. Pauline Myers, and Anna Arnold Hedgeman. Throughout he shows how local activities often diverged from policies laid out at MOWM's national office, and how grassroots participants on both sides ignored the rivalry between Randolph and the leadership of the NAACP to align with one another on the ground.

Philanthropy in America [3 volumes]

Philanthropy in America [3 volumes]
Author: Dwight F. Burlingame
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 945
Release: 2004-08-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1576078612

A landmark three-volume reference work documenting philanthropy and the nonprofit sector throughout American history, edited by the field's most widely recognized authority. Developed under the guidance of Dr. Dwight Burlingame of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, one of the nation's premier institutes for the study of philanthropy, the three-volume Philanthropy in America: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia is the definitive work on philanthropic, charitable, and nonprofit endeavors in the United States. The first section of the encyclopedia contains over 200 A–Z entries covering the lives of important philanthropists, the missions and practices of key institutions and organizations, and the impact of seminal events throughout the history of the nonprofit sector in America, from precolonial times to the present. Discussions of philanthropic traditions in ancient civilizations, in Europe during colonial times, and in countries around the world today provide fascinating contexts for understanding how the American philanthropic experience has developed. The encyclopedia also includes a collection of primary source documents (legislation, foundation reports, mission statements, etc.) for convenient review and further research.