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Subject(s)

• African American civil rights workers—Ohio—Cincinnati—Biography [Browse]
• Women civil rights workers—Ohio—Cincinnati—Biography [Browse]
• Civil rights workers—Ohio—Cincinnati—Biography [Browse]
• African Americans—Civil rights—Ohio—Cincinnati—History—20th century [Browse]
• Civil rights movements—Ohio—Cincinnati—History—20th century [Browse]
• Cincinnati (Ohio)—Race relations [Browse]
• Cincinnati (Ohio)—Biography [Browse]
• Spencer, Marian A. (Marian Alexander) 1920- [Browse]

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Part I. A remarkable family in twentieth-century Gallipolis, Ohio
• The Alexander family
• Education and voting
• School days
• Part II. Becoming a citizen activist
• Cincinnati, another world
• The University of Cincinnati
• A lifetime partner
• Marriage, family, and the YWCA
• Homeownership, new part-time job
• Woman's city club and fellowship house
• Part III. Family life
• New career
• Family values and celebrations
• Family travels; at home and abroad
• Fox Lake
• Personal journeys
• Part IV. Desegregation suits and continuing battles
• Coney Island
• School segregation
• Cincinnati City Council
• Fair housing
• Reproductive rights
• Voting rights
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

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ISBN

0-8214-4533-2

OCLC

915059575

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