Alzina Parsons-Stevens, labor and industrial worker and child welfare worker was born in Parsonfield, Maine in 1849, a town named after her paternal grandfather, Colonel Thomas Parsons, who received the land for his service in the American Revolution. Enoch Parsons, who served in the War of 1812, was a relatively prosperous farmer and small manufacturer. He and his wife, Louise (Page) Parsons, had seven children, of whom Alzina Parsons was the fourth daughter and the youngest child. Enoch Parsons died in 1862, leaving the family in difficult financial straits. With two sons fighting in the Civil War, Louise Parsons was forced to send her youngest daughter to work in a local textile mill. There she lost her right index finger in an industrial accident; the missing finger served as a perpetual stimulus and a reminder in her later struggles against child labor. An unfortunate early marriage soon ended in divorce, and though she kept her husband's last name, she refused to talk about him even to her closest friends, and no information about him survives.
Pioneer's Contributions to the Social Profession
At the age of eighteen, Azina Parsons Stevens left Maine and moved to Toledo, Ohio. There, motivated by her newly divorced status and the need to support herself, Stevens began to learn the printing trade. She soon became a proofreader and typesetter and ultimately an editor, making the newspaper business her life's work. After five years in Toledo, Stevens took her trade to Chicago, where she became one of the first women to join the Typographical Union No.16. She soon became active in the Chicago labor movement and in 1877 organized active in the Women's Union No.1. About 1882 she moved back to Toledo, Ohio, where she worked fo...
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...r children in society and gave them best possible education and safety as well to benefit their needs.
This information I feel will not really affect my anticipated professional practice because it has helped me better understand what the needs of the children are. It's the great pioneers of the past that helped create these social policies we have today to protect the interest of the children and the society as whole.
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Patience Wright, formerly known as Patience Lovell, was born in 1725, in Long Island New Jersey to a “well-to-do-Quaker family” (MacLean, 1). At that time in America, women were not allowed to own property or make any kind of salary; it was custom for women to carry out their duties to marry and raising a family. Fortunately for Wright, the Quakers “believed women should have rights and education equal to men’s”, and being raised in a Quaker family gave her the independent and outgoing personality she is becomes known for later in her life. At the age of four, Wright’s family moved to Bordentown, New Jersey (Magliaro, 1). As a child Patience always had a special interest in art. Her sister and she would use wet dough to sculpt figurines and use grains or plant extracts to make paint (MacLean, 1).
my name if farah ahmedi. and i have something to say. first, i am grateful for Alyce Litz, my mother, and so many others. i am also grateful to have this time. Although i do not have very much, i am going to share this time. I want to, because this is something, that has given me and so many others the urge. an urge to stand. and walk. and create. and protest. in truth, this time will stay. It will remain with us. unless we do something now. What would say to a young girl, of 4 or 5; who is in her school uniform. braids in hair. with a wholehearted desire. a desire for knowledge. but you have to say no. because she is what she is.
Evidence can be gleaned from the remaining copies of newspapers from this time period as to the types of jobs that women were pursuing. There were three types of ads offering work for them. The first, which comprised about 43% of the total, was for those who had involved herself in some kind of economic activity ad was seeking to market her product. The second type was for women who were ot presently employed, but seeking to find a particular type of work. This could include nurses, seamstresses and domestic help. The third ad category was seeking to employ a female as a wet nurse, housekeeper, and even plantation and dairy managers, shopkeepers or teachers.11.
Wait became personally known, and no bounds can ever be placed on her wholesome, uplifting influence as a teacher and a friend of teachers. She was the one that gave form to the education thought and established the educational ideas of her part of Kansas, who made history no less than Jim Lane and John Brown. In 1880 Capt.Wait purchased a newspaper, the Beacon, which for 20 years until Mr. Wait’s death, he and his wife, assisted by their son, Alfred H. Wait, educated and published. It began its career as a Republican paper with prohibition, antimonopoly and woman suffrage for its watchwords. Later when it could no longer call itself Republican and adhere to these three principles, it let go of the Republican part and for 12 years lived successfully. The Beacon office and contents were destroyed by incendiary fire in 1901. Mrs. Wait was the power behind the press in that printing-office, helping to put every issue that strong, fearless defense of the right that is one of the world’s great joys. Mrs. Wait would have her place in Kansas history within the women edition industry. Not only was Mrs. Wait for one of the first and best teachers of Kansas, and one of the able editors; she has been a leading spirit in that greatest of all women’s work, the development of women’s suffrage movement.
Margaret had huge dreams of one day becoming a writer, but those dreams were put on hold when her father suddenly passed away in 1835. At this time, her mother was also sick and it became her responsibility to take care of her family’s finances. There were not many job opportunities available to women during this time, she found a teaching job and accepted the position. She first began teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston and taught there until she went on to teach at the well-kn...
Hartmann, Susan M. The Home Front and Beyond: American women in the 1940s. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982
Introduction: Mary Richmond was born in Belleville, Illinois in 1961. She became an orphan at a very young age; she was 4. She had to go live with her grandmother and aunts in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up in an environment full of social and political discussions because her grandmother was a women’s suffragist. She was home schooled until the age of 11 because her grandmother and aunts did not believe in traditional education. She was very dedicated to reading and she self-taught herself. At the age of 11 she was transferred to a public school and she graduated high school at the age of 16. After she graduated, she went to live with one of her aunts in New York until she became very ill and moved to Baltimore, leaving Mary in poverty and all alone. After two years of being in this situation, Mary went back to
The education of privileged children was all about preparing boys for their future career. Members of the affluent society always wanted to send their childr...
“Those women who wanted or needed to pursue “respectable”careers became schoolteachers, seamstresses, or hat makers, or gave private lessons in art, music, or French.” some even became cooks but women were satisfied by what they wanted to do as long as they did not have someone else controlling their life.”In 1860, 300,000 women were working in shoe factories and printing plants.” stated Kathleen Ernst explains that after the 1800s women begin to do things on their own and they got to begin their dreams. “Women wrote 12 of the 27 best selling novels published between 1850 and 1860.” most women who did not like the way things were before the civil war made a living and started their
in the nation by helping others and improving their education. Jane Addams is a statement of that
Summary: I was born on May 27, 1818 in Homer, New York. I attended a local school and after that I taught school and was a private tutor. In 1840 I married Dexter C. Bloomer, a newspaper editor who got me interested in public affairs. I started to contribute articles to newspapers on various topics and joined the local women’s Temperance Society. Then, I began writing The Lily, a newspaper for women. I became more active in women’s rights and made many speaking appearances. I also began a dress-reform movement for women, pantaloons under a short skirt. I sold my newspaper but continued speaking about women’s rights.
"What must not be said: North and South and the problem of women's work", Catherine Barnes Stevenson.
When Louisa May Alcott turned seventeen, she was such a beautiful woman, who was tall and charming. She had great blue eyes and brown hair. However, she would never get married because she thought that a woman could take care of herself without a man’s supports (Delamar 34). Because of her difficult life, she began to work at an early age. She worked as a governess, a seamstress, and a teacher. When she was fifteen, she taught some of her younger playmates. During her teaching and...
...ty to ensure positive attitudes to diversity and difference – not only so that every child is included and not disadvantaged, but also so that they learn from the earliest age to value diversity in others and grow up making a positive contribution to society.’ (Great Britain. Department for children, schools and families, 2007, p.9).
Alice Malsenior Walker: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968-1986. Eds. Louis H. Pratt and Donnell D. Pratt. Connecticut: Meckler Corporation, 1988.