Women In Lexington

Author : Deirdre A. Scaggs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738542164
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Lexington written by Deirdre A. Scaggs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of America: Women in Lexington is a celebration of Kentucky women at work, in the home, at play, in society, and as part of the larger fabric of women's equality. Women in Lexington were active during World War II: they fought for women's rights, experienced changes within the family, and took advantage of or created new opportunities in the workplace. The 200 vintage photographs featured in this volume were drawn from collections housed in the archive of the University of Kentucky. With nearly 2 million photographs, the collections offer unparalleled coverage of the cultural, social, agricultural, and industrial changes that have shaped Lexington and Central Kentucky.

Author : Nichola D. Gutgold
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739120187
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seen and Heard written by Nichola D. Gutgold and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a messenger of television news, an anchorperson must hook the audience and make them pay attention. In America, there has been a strong tradition of male news anchors--Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings. These men, perched at their 'electronic hearths', recounted the details of America's most significant history to its citizens. Today, women are visible in every area of television news, even in the hallowed anchor chair, but their presence has been hard-fought and continues to present unique challenges. When Oprah Winfrey edorsed the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, it reinforced the tremendous power a broadcaster can wield. Seen and Heard examines the lives, careers, and communication styles of twelve of the most compelling and recognizable women of television news, including Christiane Amanpour, Elizabeth Vargas, Diane Sawyer, Paula Zahn, Judy Woodruff, and Candy Crowley. From Barbara Walters's vast career that spans more than half a century to Katie Couric's historic appointment as the sole anchor of the CBS Evening News, this book explores the obstacles and opportunities for women in broadcasting.

Author : Josephine Donovan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625345431
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lexington Six written by Josephine Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer was killed. While the three men who participated in the robbery were soon apprehended, two women escaped and became fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, eventually landing in a lesbian collective in Lexington, Kentucky, during the summer of 1974. In pursuit, the FBI launched a massive dragnet. Five lesbian women and one gay man ended up in jail for refusing to cooperate with federal officials, whom they saw as invading their lives and community. Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group's resistance attracted national attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority communities. Like the iconic Stonewall demonstrations, this gripping story of spirited defiance has special resonance in today's America. Drawing on transcripts of the judicial hearings, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, hundreds of pages of FBI files released to the author under the Freedom of Information Act, and interviews with many of the participants, Josephine Donovan reconstructs this fascinating, untold story. The Lexington Six is a vital addition to LGBTQ, feminist, and radical American history.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of ... International written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Dallam Peter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813148111
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky written by Frances Dallam Peter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of illness, she did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount of information from friends, neighbors, and newspapers. Peter's candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's month-long occupation by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the slave population following the Emancipation Proclamation. As troops from both North and South took turns holding the city, she repeatedly emphasized the rightness of the Union cause and minced no words in expressing her disdain for the hated "secesh." Her writings articulate many concerns common to Kentucky Unionists. Though she was an ardent supporter of the war against the Confederacy, Peter also worried that Lincoln's use of authority exceeded his constitutional rights. Her own attitudes towards blacks were ambiguous, as was the case with many people in that time. Peter's descriptions of daily events in an occupied city provide valuable insights and a unique feminine perspective on an underappreciated aspect of the war. Until her death by epileptic seizure in August 1864, Peter conscientiously recorded the position and deportment of both Union and Confederate soldiers, incidents at the military hospitals, and stories from the countryside. Her account of a torn and divided region is a window to the war through the gaze of a young woman of intelligence and substance.

Author : Melanie Beals Goan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813180198
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Simple Justice written by Melanie Beals Goan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all. The Nineteenth Amendment eventually gave women the right to vote in 1920, but the change was not welcomed by people of all genders in politically and religiously conservative Kentucky. As a result, the suffrage movement in the Commonwealth involved a tangled web of stakeholders, entrenched interest groups, unyielding constitutional barriers, and activists with competing strategies. In A Simple Justice, Melanie Beals Goan offers a new and deeper understanding of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky by following the people who labored long and hard to see the battle won. Women's suffrage was not simply a question of whether women could and should vote; it carried more serious implications for white supremacy and for the balance of federal and state powers -- especially in a border state. Shocking racial hostility surfaced even as activists attempted to make America more equitable. Goan looks beyond iconic women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to reveal figures whose names have been lost to history. Laura Clay and Madeline McDowell Breckinridge led the Kentucky movement, but they did not do it alone. This timely study introduces readers to individuals across the Bluegrass State who did their part to move the nation closer to achieving its founding ideals.

Author : Nanette J. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317287401
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Deviance: Issues in Social Conflict and Change written by Nanette J. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives. This title is concerned with the origins, change, conflict, and consequences of deviant behaviour and "women’s adaptation to their changing roles." It encompasses monographs, journal articles, books, and government documents in English. This title will be of particular interest to students of sociology and criminology.

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026884779
Total Pages : 8384 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VOTES FOR WOMEN: Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. (Including Biographies & Memoirs of Most Influential Suffragettes) written by Jane Addams and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 8384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is produced by women's suffrage leaders: the Great Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage & Ida Husted Harper. It presents the complete history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States. This edition presents the major source for primary documentation about the women's suffrage movement from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. In addition to the remarkable history of suffrage movements this collection is enriched with the biographies of the most influential figures of American movement for women's suffrage: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul.

Author : Lynne Ford
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646938216
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Third Edition written by Lynne Ford and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Third Edition contains all the material a reader needs to understand the role of women throughout America's political history. This informative A-to-Z volume contains hundreds of entries covering the people, events, and terms involved in the history of women and politics. Entries include: Abortion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez The birth control movement Black Lives Matter Hillary Rodham Clinton Deb Haaland Domestic violence Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Glass ceiling League of Women Voters #MeToo movement Michelle Obama Sonia Sotomayor Elizabeth Warren and many more.

Author : National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report Series - National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information written by National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a variety of series, each concentrating on a special topic.