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A transgender woman placed in a men's prison after filing a lawsuit alleging abuse at New Jersey's Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to a women's facility in Pennsylvania, according to her lawyer.
By Isaque Rezende, Special to the Reporter
April 22, 2021
Hannah Glidden Myrick
Hannah Glidden Myrick was among the small number of women who graduated from medical school by the turn of the 20th century. Her path to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine was not an easy one, starting with her early education at Boston’s Boys Latin School after being granted a rare exception as a female student. She went on to graduate from Smith College in 1896 and four years later became one of the first women to earn a medical degree from Johns Hopkins at a time when women were generally excluded from medical education.
Rosa Louise Macauley Early Childhood
Rosa Louise Macauley Early Childhood
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Rosa Louise MaCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father James was a carpenter, her mother Leona was a teacher. She was often sick as a child and had to stay in bed a lot. Her mother and father separated when she was a child, and she moved to her grandparentâs farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mom and little brother Sylvester. When Rosa was eleven in 1924, her mother sent her to live with relatives in Montgomery, Alabama to go to a better school. It was called Industrial School for Girls. It was a school started by white northerners to help black young girls. She learned self-respect and she was excited to live in a big city. She lived during a time when blacks and whites used separate bathrooms, restaurants, pretty
Racism on Campus: Yearbook Pictures From Prominent Virginia Colleges (1890-1930) by Stephen C. Poulson, Hailey S. McGee, and Tyler J. Wolfe | March 7, 2021 | Fall 2020
Photo by Kimberly Farmer (Source: Unsplash).
Trigger Warning: Images and words in this article may be triggering to some of our readers as some of the photos feature racial slurs and anti-Black violence. As disturbing as these images and words are, Contexts Magazine aims to be transparent about the historical and current ways that racism manifests in the United States and around the word. This is one such example.
What do college yearbooks tell us about the social histories of universities? We asked this question during a political scandal following the discovery that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s personal page in his Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook (below) featured a man in blackface standing beside another dressed as a member of the KKK.