Annual Report of the Trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind to the Corporation, 1843 (Classic Reprint)
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind to the Corporation, 1843 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Perkins Institute for the Blind

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9781330530535

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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind to the Corporation, 1843 Gentlemen: The following report for the year 1842, is respectfully submitted. The number of inmates at the commencement of the year was sixty-two: of these five have been regularly discharged; two have left for the purpose of trying to earn their own livelihood, and one has died. There have been fourteen new admissions, so that the number of blind persons in the establishment, is now sixty-eight; and of deaf and dumb persons two, making in all seventy. Of these thirty-three are from Massachusetts; the others are from Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York and South Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Women, Race, & Class
Women, Race, & Class

Author: Angela Y. Davis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-06-29

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307798496

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From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.