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Author Weiler, Kathleen, author.

Title Maria Baldwin's worlds : a story of Black New England and the fight for racial justice / Kathleen Weiler.

Publication Info. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A New England girlhood -- The woman's era -- Contending forces -- We will never cease to protest -- Keen of wit, a brilliant mind -- Afterword -- Maria Baldwin and historical memory.
Summary "Maria Baldwin (1856-1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New England school and an activist who carried on the radical spirit of the Boston area's internationally renowned abolitionists from a generation earlier. African American sociologist Adelaide Cromwell called Baldwin "the lone symbol of Negro progress in education in the greater Boston area" during her lifetime. Baldwin used her respectable position to fight alongside more radical activists like William Monroe Trotter for full citizenship for fellow members of the black community. And, in her professional and personal life, she negotiated and challenged dominant white ideas about black womanhood. In Maria Baldwin's Worlds, Kathleen Weiler reveals both Baldwin's victories and what fellow activist W. E. B. Du Bois called her "quiet courage" in everyday life." --Provided by publisher.
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Subject Baldwin, Maria, 1856-1922.
Professor Agassiz' School (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Biography.
African American intellectuals -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
African American intellectuals.
Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African American women school principals -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
African American women school principals.
African American civil rights workers -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Massachusetts -- Boston Region.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Single women -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
Single women.
Boston Region (Mass.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Title Story of Black New England and the fight for racial justice
Other Form: Print version: Weiler, Kathleen, author. Maria Baldwin's worlds Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019] 9781625344779 (DLC) 2019020708
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