Description: KEEP ON FIGHTING : The Life and Civil Rights Legacy of Marian A. Spencer by Dorothy H. Christenson (2015, Hardcover) Introduction by Mary E. Frederickson Ohio University Press© 2015 ISBN-10: 0821421719 ISBN: 978-0821421710 About Marian A. Spencer (1920-2019)Marian Regelia Alexander Spencer was an American politician who served as Vice Mayor of the Cincinnati City Council in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the first Black woman to be elected to the Council. She graduated as a co-valedictorian of Gallia Academy School in 1938 and later enrolled in the University of Cincinnati, where she became active with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Marian began her public fight for civil rights in 1952 when she led the desegregation effort at Cincinnati’s Coney Island Amusement Park. Throughout the rest of herspencer009 life, Spencer dedicated herself to civil rights activism and racial equality in Cincinnati. For over twenty years, Marian chaired the Cincinnati NAACP Education Committee, working to end racial isolation in schools and to achieve educational equity. She led the NAACP of Cincinnati as Chapter President from 1980-1982, becoming the first woman to hold the position. She represented the Ohio Democratic Party at their 1984 and 1988 national conventions. Other notable organizations Spencer worked with included the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Ohio Advisory Board, Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Planned Parenthood, and the Cincinnati Human Services Task Force. See photos for Table of Contents. RELATED: The Divine 9, The Divine Nine, BGLO, Black Greek Letter Organizations, Black Greeks, National Pan-Hellenic Council, NPHC, The PEARLS of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Howard University, Black Sororities, Black Fraternal Organizations, “IVY LEAF”, Ivy Box, Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Burke, Lillie Burke, Marjorie Hill, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe and Marie Woolfolk Taylor, AKA, AKAs. FINAL SALE No returns or refunds, please.
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: KEEP ON FIGHTING
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Author: Dorothy H. Christenson, Mary E. Frederickson
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Original Language: English
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: African Americans, American History, Local History, Local Interest
