“[Casting her vote against the U.S. declaration entering World War I, 1917:] I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.”
Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeanette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
“Margery (Louise) Allingham: (1904-1966) British detective story writer. She published her first story at 8, her first novel at 19, and her first detective story in her early 20s. Her stories about the fictional detective about the fictional detective Albert Campion became very popular, and such novels as Tiger in the Smoke (1952) and The China Governess (1962), with their intellectual style and psychological insight, helped win detective fiction consideration as a serious literary genre.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
“Seneca Falls Convention: (July 19-20, 1948) Assembly held at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the U.S.s women’s suffrage movement. The meeting was initiated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (who lived in Seneca Falls) and Lucretia Mott. Over 200 people attended the meeting including 40 men, The group passed the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of grievances and demands modeled on the Declaration of Independence that called on women to organize and petition for their rights. A controversial demand for the right to vote passed by a narrow margin.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Did Zelda Fitzgerald write any novels? One, Save me the Waltz (1932).
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged fiction/literature, united states history, women's history
“Sandra Day O’Connor originally Sandra Day (b.1930) U.S. jurist. Born in El Paso, Texas, she studied law at Stanford University, graduating first in her class, and entered private practice in Arizona. She served as an assistant state attorney general (1965-69) before being elected in 1969 to the state senate, where she became the first woman in the U.S. to hold the position of majority leader (1972-74). After serving on the superior court of Maricopa County and the state court of appeals, she was nominated in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Supreme Court and became the first female justice in the Court’s history. She proved to be a moderate and pragmatic conservative who sometimes sided with the Court’s liberal minority on social issues (e.g. abortion rights). She is known for dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
Posted in Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged professional development, united states history, women's history
“Hortense Calisher: (1911-2009) American novelist and short-story writer. Calisher’s first, partly autobiographical, stories appeared in The New Yorker. Many of her early stories featured Hester Elkin and her large Jewish family living in New York City. Her most frequently anthologized story, ‘In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks’ (1951), focuses on a man, his loneliness, and a final promise of companionship. The full range of her short fiction is contained in Collected Stories (1975). Apart from the facts that she is an acknowledged master of style and that her work offers intricately drawn insights into her characters, Calisher’s writing defies easy classification. Characters in her first novel, False Entry (1961), reappear in an entirely different context in The New Yorkers (1969). Both Journal from Ellipsia (1965) and Queenie (1971) contain spoofs of American sexual mores, the former by presenting alternatives from another planet, the latter through the eyes of an ‘old-fashioned girl.’ Other novels include Texture of Life (1963), On Keeping Women (1977), and In the Palace of the Movie King (1993). In 1988, Calisher published a volume of memoirs, Kissing Cousins.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Harold Washington: (1922-1987) U.S. politician and mayor of Chicago (1983-87). Born in Chicago, he practiced law and served as a city attorney 1954-58). He was elected successively to the Illinois legislature (1965-78), state senate (1976-80), and U.S. House of Representatives (1980-83). After a hard-fought campaign for reform and an end to city patronage, he was elected mayor of Chicago, becoming the first black to hold that office. He was elected to a second term in 1987, but died soon after.
Excerpted/Adapted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
Posted in Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged black history, professional development, united states history
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged black history, poetry, professional development, united states history
“Denmark Vesey: (1767?-1822) U.S. insurrectionist. Born in the West Indies, he was sold to a Bermuda slaver captain, with whom he sailed on numerous voyages. They settled in Charleston, South Carolina, and Vesey was allowed to purchase his freedom for $600 in 1800. After reading antislavery literature, he determined to relieve the oppression of slaves. He organized city and plantation blacks (up to 9,000 by some estimates) for an uprising in which they would attack arsenals, seize the arms, kill all whites, burn Charleston, and free the slaves on surrounding plantations. After a house servant warned the authorities, the insurrection was forestalled and 130 blacks were arrested; Vesey was tried and hanged with 35 others.”
Excerpted/Adapted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
“Jamaica Kincaid: (1949-) Antiguan novelist and short-story writer. Kincaid’s collection of ten short stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983), is distinctive in its poetic style and dream sequences. The collection explores what it means to grow up female in the Caribbean, through an intense mother/daughter relationship. Annie John (1985), an autobiographical novel, portrays a female protagonist struggling to establish an identity within the complexities of Caribbean society. Other works include A Small Place (1988), an essay about Antigua, and Lucy, a novel.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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