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03/01/2019

A Mighty Girl's top picks of the best new books for children and teens about incredible women from around the world.

02/06/2019

This is all about love. LaVerne M. Love, that is. As women's program manager for the Smithsonian Office of Equal Opportunity, Love helped write the Smithsonian Women's Council's first bylaws and was the highest ranking African American woman at the Smithsonian at the time. Love also chaired a Civil Service Commission task force on minority women --> s.si.edu/2D8oAbz (📷: 73-1397)

02/06/2019

To mark the 50th anniversary of Shirley Chisholm’s historic entry into the U.S. House of Representatives, her oath of office and a record from her service on the House Rules Committee are now on display at the National Archives Museum through April 9, 2019.

When Shirley Chisholm took her oath of office on January 21, 1969, she was the only new woman to enter Congress that term and just one of nine African American members in the House of Representatives.

As a freshman member, Chisholm did not hesitate to speak up and—when needed—make herself heard. As a Representative for Brooklyn, New York, she vigorously appealed her appointment to the Committee on Agriculture and persisted until she was reassigned to the Veterans Affairs Committee. She accepted the change, remarking “there are a lot more veterans in my district than trees.”

In 1972, she was also the first woman and the first African American to seek the Democratic Presidential nomination as well as a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971.

In 1977, Shirley Chisholm made history again when she became the first black woman and second woman ever to serve on the powerful House Rules Committee, which sets the conditions for debating legislative bills on the floor of the House of Representatives.

In the August 3, 1978, minutes from the committee’s hearing on proposed legislation to extend the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratification deadline to June 30, 1982, Chisholm expressed her support for the amendment. The next day, she introduced a bill calling for a vote on the ERA deadline extension legislation, which ultimately passed Congress on October 6. The ERA remains unratified.

During her seven congressional terms, “Fighting Shirley” was an outspoken champion for economic justice and racial and gender equality. Shirley Chisholm died on January 1, 2005, at age 80.

This Featured Document is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation, through the generous support of The Boeing Company

Photo: Shirley Chisholm, shortly after her election to Congress in 1968. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7452354

12/06/2018

Make Hodges the place to be during finals. Finish Strong, Vols!

09/12/2018

A coalition of nearly 40 student groups and academic units at UT is launching a voter registration campaign on campus.

09/08/2018

07/19/2018

The first women's rights convention met 170 years ago today in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the "social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman."

Read the report, printed at the office of Frederick Douglass' North Star from Seneca Falls Historical Society via South Central Regional Library Council and Empire State Digital Network: https://dp.la/item/088ceae7e9e96278a55169baa2d8ca4b

05/03/2018

I am collecting student voices regarding Chancellor Davenport, UTK's first woman chancellor. Help me spread the word.

What this is: An archive of student responses and perspectives related to the tenure of Dr. Beverly Davenport, UTK's first woman chancellor. This is an archival project by a librarian at UTK to collect and preserve the student voice regarding a key figure in university history. This information will...

04/13/2018

The Libraries have something for everyone.

From start to finish, it was great opportunity to share how and introduce our upcoming makerspace!

04/10/2018

Almost all of the most challenged books deal with LGBT or sexuality.

Today, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom released the Top 10 Challenged Books of 2017. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/NLW-Top10

04/09/2018

Always great educational sessions from S*x Week.

S*x Week Day Two: Monday's line-up, starting at 1:30pm with Q***r History in Cinema in McClung Tower room 1210!