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| Title: | Women Who Made a Difference: A Special Record |
| Author: | Peabody, Stanton |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Liberian Studies Journal |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 63-89 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Liberia |
| Subjects: | women empowerment social change biographies (form) Women's Issues History and Exploration Architecture and the Arts Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence Historical/Biographical arts Education and Training Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights |
| Abstract: | This paper is a tribute to women who, during the 20th century, contributed to a better life for the people of Liberia. It contains brief biographies of Agnes Von Balmoos, who Liberianized Liberian folksongs and music; Susan Berry, woman activist and labour leader; Angie Brooks-Randall, who, in 1954, was appointed a member of the Liberian delegation to the Ninth Session of the UN General Assembly and later 'midwifed' most African territories under UN Trusteeship to self-determination; Anna E. Cooper, Dean of Liberia College and one of the pioneers in the field of higher education in Liberia; Magdalene Cooper-Dennis, a nurse who changed the field of childbearing and child care; Francis Davis-Blatch, who was a role model for Prayer Bands and religious Mothers; Edith Mai Padmore, who was Special Assistant to the President under President Tubman; Eugenia Simpson-Cooper, a pioneer in the educational field who broke ground for female empowerment; Juah Weeks-Wolo, who, by protecting her rights under her marriage in 1935, became a role model for every citizen whose human rights have been trampled on; and the nurses who went to work in the hospitals in Liberia's hinterland, a milestone in the development of better human relations between the government on the coast and the people in the interior. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |