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Origins. The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women ...
Front page of Chicago Maroon on January 17, 1962, with the headline "UC Admits Housing Segregation". According to Chicago Maroon managing editor Avima Ruder, a staffer at the student paper, found a copy of the university budget, and "we discovered that the University owned a lot of segregated apartment buildings...It was really bizarre because our student population at that point was largely ...
Sheena Duncan (7 December 1932 – 4 May 2010) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist and counselor. Duncan was the daughter of Jean Sinclair, one of the co-founders of the Black Sash, a group of white, middle-class South African women who offered support to black South Africans and advocated the non-violent abolishment of the Apartheid system. [1]
The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable 's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African and French descent. [4] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city's first black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first ...
Robb was born in Plymouth on 25 December 1913. [2] Robb most often went by her middle name, Noël. [3] She graduated from Bedford College in 1935 or 1936 and after college, got a job working in Cape Town at St. Cyprians School. [2] [3] She worked at St. Cyprians School for four years. [3] She married Francis Charles Robb in December 1939 and he ...
She became involved with the Black Sash in 1965 and was chair of the organisation's Western Cape regional council from 1974 to 1986. During this time she also studied at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a BA degree in 1982. She was arrested after a protest march to Pollsmoor Prison in 1985.
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration is a non-fiction book by James R. Grossman, published by University of Chicago Press in 1991. It received several positive reviews in the academic press, and was noted as a significant contribution to scholarly work on Black community experience of migration to Chicago from southern states.
Occupation (s) Lawyer, magistrate. Years active. 1933–1974. Known for. First woman magistrate of Nigeria. Stella Jane Thomas (later Stella Marke; 1906–1974) was a Yoruba Nigerian lawyer of Sierra Leone Creole descent. [1][2] She received a law degree from Oxford University and in 1943 became the first woman magistrate in Nigeria. [3]