Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer

Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer /

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw an upsurge in race riots and lynchings. Following the example of her grandfather, an ex-slave and community leader, Marian joined the NAACP at thirteen and...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Christenson, Dorothy H., 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015
Subjects:
Spencer, Marian A. > (Marian Alexander), > 1920-
African American civil rights workers > Ohio > Cincinnati > Biography.
Women civil rights workers > Ohio > Cincinnati > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Ohio > Cincinnati > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 20th century.
Cincinnati (Ohio) > Race relations.
Cincinnati (Ohio) > Biography.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part I.A remarkable family in twentieth-century Gallipolis, Ohio
  • The Alexander family
  • Education and voting
  • School days
  • Part II. Becoming a citizen activist
  • Cincinnati, another world
  • The University of Cincinnati
  • A lifetime partner
  • Marriage, family, and the YWCA
  • Homeownership, new part-time job
  • Woman's city club and fellowship house
  • Part III. Family life
  • New career
  • Family values and celebrations
  • Family travels; at home and abroad
  • Fox Lake
  • Personal journeys
  • Part IV. Desegregation suits and continuing battles
  • Coney Island
  • School segregation
  • Cincinnati City Council
  • Fair housing
  • Reproductive rights
  • Voting rights
  • National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

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