March 2012
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MISSISSIPPI GODDAMN - WHY TRAYVON MATTERS TO ME?
MISSISSIPPI GODDAMN
by Nina Simone
WHY TRAYVON MATTERS TO ME?
I am 52 years old. I was born just a few years after the Lynching of Emmet Till. The horrific images still in the news, the tremble still in peoples voices when they talked about it. (And I better not see nobody tweet “Who is Emmett Till?” If you don’t know, you better ask somebody.)
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Barefoot. Pregnant Awards - Strangers in the Land... →
Barefoot, Pregnant Awards (NOW) Nat’l Organization Women Philadelphia Chapter - Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1973.
Another interesting piece on Women and Morality
Far from the Path of Virtue: Women on the Margins of Morality in Antebellum America
“In the antebellum period, American women’s participation in the public sphere was limited, often constraining women to roles...
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