Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer / Dorothy H. Christenson ; introduction by Mary E. Frederickson.
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]Copyright date: copy©2015Description: 1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780821421710 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780821421949 (pb : alk. paper)
- 9780821445334 (e-book)
- 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
- 323.092 B 23
- F499.C553 S643 2015eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
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