Stateside s conversation with Rachel Clark
While teaching has long been considered a “feminine” job, with 76% of teachers being female in 2019, it hasn’t always been open to women of color. Not until the mid-1800s when Detroiter Fannie Richards changed education in Michigan forever.
Richards was born around 1840 in Fredericksburg, VA, and moved to Detroit after her father died in 1850. Around that time, Black Detroiters were primarily settled in the area that is now Lafayette Park and were staunchly middle class, Michigan History Center’s
Rachel Clark described.
Stateside s conversation with Jennifer Tianen and Yael Mizrahi
In high school English classes, students are often tasked with trudging through the classics. At West Bloomfield High School, in
Jennifer Tianen’s class, they’re getting a different view of one author in the literary canon.
These students have been transcribing the letters of Marjorie Bump, a Petoskey woman who was friends with Ernest Hemingway when he lived at his boyhood summer home of Windemere. She was also a character in his Nick Adams stories, particularly
The End of Something, where Hemingway’s self insert character, Adams, ends up with a broken heart.