{"id":39240,"date":"2020-02-06T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=39240"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:19:12","slug":"women-of-the-movement-leaders-for-civil-rights-and-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2020\/02\/women-of-the-movement-leaders-for-civil-rights-and-voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of the Movement: Leaders for Civil Rights and Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe exhibit, Women of the Movement: Leaders for Civil Rights and Voting Rights<\/strong>, currently on display on the 4th<\/sup> floor lobby of the Walter C. Langsam Library, profiles female leaders of the fight for civil and voting rights. Beginning with Sojourner Truth, former slave and abolitionist, and including contemporaries Diane Nash, a key player in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Cincinnati\u2019s Marian Spencer, a champion for Civil Rights both locally and nationally, the exhibit spans history into current times.<\/p>\n

Included in the exhibit are women instrumental to the Suffrage fight – Sojourner Truth who worked closely with Susan B. Anthony; Mary Church Terrell, founder of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 as part of the Suffrage Movement after black women were excluded from the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement; and Mary McLeod Bethune who led voter registration drives following passing of the 19th<\/sup> Amendment.<\/p>\n

Civil Rights activists on display include Fannie Lou Hamer, who famously said, \u201cI\u2019m sick and tired of being sick and tired;\u201d Daisy Bates, an integrated schools advocate; and Ida B. Wells, a journalist, educator and one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.<\/p>\n

The exhibit\u2019s design is inspired by a recently created ArtWorks mural in Cincinnati\u2019s Avondale neighborhood honoring Louise Shropshire, composer of the hymn, \u201cIf My Jesus Wills,\u201d that became the well-known mantra \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d during the Civil Rights Movement. Louise Shropshire\u2019s papers are located in the Archives and Rare Books Library.<\/p>\n

Women of the Movement: Leaders for Civil Rights and Voting Rights<\/strong> was curated by June Taylor-Slaughter, public services supervisor in the Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library, and was designed by Michelle Matevia, UC Libraries communication design co-op student. A handout<\/a> is available at the exhibit with more information on the women featured in the exhibit.<\/p>\n

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