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Bowser was born on January 7, 1855, in Amelia County, the daughter of Henry Dixon, a carpenter, and Augusta A. Hawkins Dixon, a domestic servant. She was probably born into slavery. After freedom came in 1865, the family moved to Richmond and started a new life. Religion and education were the foundations of the family, and they joined Richmond’s largest congregation, First African Baptist Church. Dixon first taught in the Sunday school there. Her father recognized her aptitude and enrolled ...

The Stakes of the Fight to Help Parents Couldn’t Be Higher Stephanie H. Murray © Getty / The Atlantic In 1920, following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, the lawyer and feminist Crystal Eastman turned her attention to the future. The new goal of the feminist movement, she argued, should be to ensure that women are free to pursue careers outside of child-rearing—but also to guarantee that if women chose to focus on parenti...

Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.

Clark returned to Virginia and taught classes in illustration at the Art Club of Richmond and was an instructor at the Richmond Training School for Kindergartners. About 1916 she and the Richmond artist Nora Houston established the Atelier. Their studio became a training ground for a generation of Virginia artists, including Theresa Pollak, who later founded the art program at the University of Richmond and the art school at Virginia Commonwealth University. Intending to revive the long-morib...

United States The postwar Republican administrations After the end of World War I, many Americans were left with a feeling of distrust toward foreigners and radicals, whom they held responsible for the war. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the communists’ Third International in 1919 further fanned American fears of radicalism. Race riots and labour unrest added to the tension. Thus, when a series of strikes and indiscriminate bombings began in 1919, the unrelated incidents w...

Laura Wooten: A Commemoration Butler Colleges invites you to a virtual celebration of the life and legacy of Laura Wooten on Friday, April 9 at 4pm. Leave your thoughts, comments and memories of Laura Wooten at laurawooten.princeton.edu. Laura Wooten left her mark on Princeton and the nation, serving for years as the card checker at the entrance to the Butler College dining hall and becoming the longest-serving poll worker in U.S. history before her passing at age 98 in March 2019....

Apr 8, 2021 As the WNBA is set to begin its 25th season later this spring, its players will do so sporting new team uniforms. On Thursday, the league released three new jersey designs for each team, debuting the Heroine Edition, the Explorer Edition and the Rebel Edition. In the wake of the latest jersey drop, Sports Illustrated ranked each new Explorer and Rebel uniform from worst to best. Ranking Every 2021 WNBA Uniform 12. Minnesota Lynx To be clear, there are no weak uniforms in this coll...

Summary The idea of rights is central to our moral vocabulary. Over the past century, however, the concept of rights has changed significantly: the original faculties-based natural rights doctrine is being replaced by a needs-based and dependency-based human rights doctrine. This change is best represented in the sharp contrast between rights claims expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. This shift in theory has and will con...

Save this story for later. In 2017, Kathryn Schulz published an essay about Pauli Murray, a transformative and underappreciated figure who had played a key role in making the case for racial equality and women’s rights. Thurgood Marshall referred to one of Murray’s books as “the bible” of Brown v. Board of Education, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg credited Murray with helping shape her work on gender discrimination. “Four decades before another legal scholar, Kimberlé Willi...

American Foundation for the Blind Announces Women in Leadership Panel Discussion News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), in observance of 100 years of creating a more inclusive world for people who are blind or visually impaired, is launching a series of "Centennial Conversations"—curated webinars focused on the most pressing issues and topics affecting the blind and low vision communities,...