Elliot Liebow (January 4, 1925–September 4, 1994) was an anthropologist best known as the author of Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (1967, Little, Brown and Co.) and Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women (1993, Free Press). The two books, written more than twenty-five years apart, rather neatly bookend Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: Telling Us Who They Are
Posted in: Blogs Humanities The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: African-American History, Anthropology, Catholic University Alum, Elliot Liebow, finding aid, Homelessness, National Catholic School of Social Service, National Institute of Mental Health, Washington D.C. | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Long Live Organized Women
This August will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which states that no citizen of the United States shall be denied the right to vote “on account of sex.” The history of women’s suffrage is closely allied with the abolitionist and the temperance movements of the early 19th century—antebellum Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: A Flapper, a Nurse, and a Nun Apply to Catholic University…
I am not pleading for co-education or the admission of “flappers” into the University, but I am pleading for the cause of the women who mean more for the Church in America in one sense, than all its Hierarchy and all its Priests. – Archbishop Michael Curley to Peter Guilday, October 10, 1924 Among the Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: Putting Their Money Where Their Hearts Were
Among the archival collections housed at The Catholic University of America (CUA) are the papers of Bruce Monroe Mohler (1881-1967) and Dorothy Abts Mohler (1908-2000), two of the most remarkable people ever produced by the American Catholic Church. Both epitomized the active participation of the laity as each contributed a lifetime of humanitarian service in Read More
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