Bein' Womanish: Womanist Efforts in Child Saving During the Progressive Era: The Founding of Mt. Meigs Reformatory  

Oleh:

Perry, Tonya Evette ; Davis-Maye, Denise

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Affilia vol. 22 no. 2 (May 2007), page 209-219.
Topik: African American women; child welfare; social welfare history; women’s clubs
Fulltext: 209.pdf (90.02KB)

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This article highlights the establishment by the Alabama Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs in 1907 of Alabama’s first and only reform school for African American youths, the Mt. Meigs Reformatory for Juvenile Negro Lawbreakers. Recognizing that the issues of African American women and the larger African American community were inextricably linked, courageous 19th-century African American women worked within a womanist ideological framework and harnessed their resources to develop purposeful agendas and creative responses to pressing problems in the African American community. Sorely neglected, this legacy begs for the attention of scholars who recognize the value of unearthing historical fragments to create enriched wholes.

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