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Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer  Cover Image Book Book

Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer / Dorothy H. Christenson ; introduction by Mary E. Frederickson.

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  • ISBN: 9780821421710
  • ISBN: 0821421719
  • ISBN: 9780821421949
  • ISBN: 0821421948
  • Physical Description: xix, 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-165) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
I.A remarkable family in twentieth-century Gallipolis, Ohio -- The Alexander family -- Education and voting -- School days -- 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 -- III. Family life -- New career -- Family values and celebrations -- Family travels -- at home and abroad -- Fox Lake -- Personal journeys -- IV. Desegregation suits and continuing battles -- Coney Island -- School segregation -- Cincinnati City Council -- Fair housing -- Reproductive rights -- Voting rights -- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Subject: Spencer, Marian A. (Marian Alexander), 1920-
Spencer, Marian A. (Marian Alexander), 1920-
African American civil rights workers > Ohio > Cincinnati > Biography.
Women civil rights workers > Ohio > Cincinnati > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Ohio > Cincinnati > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 20th century.
Cincinnati (Ohio) > Race relations.
Cincinnati (Ohio) > Biography.
African American civil rights workers.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Race relations.
Women civil rights workers.
Ohio > Cincinnati.
Genre: Biographies.
History.

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