IT WAS LIBERTY

Recollect their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings! Recollect the civil and religious principles and hopes and expectations, which constantly supported and carried them through all hardships, and patience and resignation! Let us recollect it was liberty!


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Reblogged from vintagesevensisters
vintagesevensisters: Frances Harriet Williams, Mount Holyoke ‘19 When Williams’ mother forwarded her transcript to Mount Holyoke in 1916, she ”received a letter from the college stating that they did not believe her daughter would be happy at Mount Holyoke, to which she responded that she wasn’t sending her daughter to be happy but to receive an education. Williams, who had a light complexion, recalled that many of her fellow students would not sit with her at meals, although some were not concerned about her race. Williams held a double major in chemistry and economics, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1919. She then earned a master’s in political science from the University of Chicago.” (Linda Perkins, “Racial Integration at the Seven Sister Colleges,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education) And here is the reminder to myself to not be too smug. You can admit a girl, but you can’t wipe the racism from your students’ heads. (You can, however, give this student Phi Beta Kappa, 90 years before I got it from the same college! I mostly mention it because member professors have to choose you, so she clearly made an impression.)

vintagesevensisters:

Frances Harriet Williams, Mount Holyoke ‘19

When Williams’ mother forwarded her transcript to Mount Holyoke in 1916, she ”received a letter from the college stating that they did not believe her daughter would be happy at Mount Holyoke, to which she responded that she wasn’t sending her daughter to be happy but to receive an education. Williams, who had a light complexion, recalled that many of her fellow students would not sit with her at meals, although some were not concerned about her race. Williams held a double major in chemistry and economics, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1919. She then earned a master’s in political science from the University of Chicago.” (Linda Perkins, “Racial Integration at the Seven Sister Colleges,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education)

And here is the reminder to myself to not be too smug. You can admit a girl, but you can’t wipe the racism from your students’ heads. (You can, however, give this student Phi Beta Kappa, 90 years before I got it from the same college! I mostly mention it because member professors have to choose you, so she clearly made an impression.)

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    be too smug. You can admit...girl, but you can’t wipe the racism from your students’...
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    This blog has such interesting stories. A great reminder...women who came before us :)
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