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Continue Reading »Your Girl and Mine was the first large-scale suffrage film. Also referred to as a “photo-play,” the film was a collaboration between the National American Woman Suffrage Association and Selig Studio of Chicago. This article in The Times-Dispatch includes a lengthy synopsis of the film’s plot, which revolves around the trials of women and children who have few legal rights. Poverty, child labor, tenement housing, alcohol abuse, and child custody battles all play out in the course of the melodrama.
Continue Reading »Plans and elevations and a historical sketch of the Willard Asylum for the insane, at Willard, on Seneca-Lake, N.Y. (1887) This report may also be read through the Internet Archive. Annual report of the Trustees of the Willard State Hospital, for the year 1892 This report may also be read through the Internet Archive. Annual…
Continue Reading »Alan Keith-Lucas (1910-1995): International Child Welfare Scholar & Advocate, Social Work Educator, and Author by Breanna Schuetz October 25, 2018 Alan Keith-Lucas was a noted educator, author, and consultant in the care and welfare of children. In his extensive writings he addressed the helping relationship, and expanded the focus of helping children in group…
Continue Reading »Breanna Schuetz is a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) student at The University of North Carolina-Greensboro and North Carolina A & T State University, graduating in May of 2019 from the Joint Masters Program. Schuetz graduated from Augustana College with a B.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2016. Upon graduating from Augustana College, she…
Continue Reading »Published on October 35, 1943, The Races of Mankind makes the argument that all the world’s humans are biologically the same. The pamphlet inspired a short training film that aimed to decrease racial tensions, The Brotherhood of Man.
Continue Reading »Primary sources related to tenement house reforms in the State of New York and the passage of the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901.
Continue Reading »In 1911, Murray Grey and other students from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (later, Union Presbyterian Seminary) started The Seventeenth Street Mission, a settlement house and urban ministry outreach program in Shockoe Bottom, the most impoverished neighborhood of Richmond, Va.
Continue Reading »Paula Skreslet was Reference and Archives Librarian at the William Smith Morton Library of Union Presbyterian Seminary. She is the author of Northern Africa : A Guide to Reference and Information Sources (Libraries Unlimited, 2000) and The Literature of Islam : A Guide to the Primary Sources in English Translation (Scarecrow, 2006), and articles on Islamic bibliography and…
Continue Reading »A Negro Visitor in Negro Homes The Survey, July 12, 1919 (Vol. 42, Issue 15), 574. This article reports on the work of Lulu Maxwell, the first African American social worker with the Associated Charities of Minneapolis. Incidents of truancy and delinquency, along with Maxwell’s work with the elderly and orphans are discussed. …
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