Dissertation Information for Lisa Beth Hill NAME: - Lisa Beth Hill
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1999)
ADVISORS: - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Delores P. Aldridge - Allen Tullos
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Community and responsibility: African-American women activists in New Haven, Connecticut, 1900 to 1998
Abstract: This study chronicles the lives of fourteen African American women who lived in New Haven, Connecticut, in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The efforts of the women were marked by giving care and support to fellow African Americans, instilling community pride, and helping children to develop into significant and productive citizens. New Haven was chosen as the setting of this study because it represents a northern city which has had a small but consistently increasing African American population since the late nineteenth century. African Americans in New Haven needed networks of support and care-giving because their specific concerns were not always addressed or noticed by other members of society. New Haven was also chosen to expand existing literature on activities of Black women in smaller cities in the North.
Direct interviews were conducted between 1995 and 1998, with African American women or their children, who lived in New Haven. Information from secondary sources was gathered from New Haven public libraries, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, the New Haven Afro-American Historical Society, the Dixwell Community House, local newspapers and other archives. This discussion supports the arguments that: (1) African American women in New Haven have historically been in the forefront of positive social efforts aimed at the betterment of African Americans in that city; (2) the common theme of such efforts is that of a strong religious belief; (3) children are our future and, therefore, must be developed with the assistance of constructive programs and activities in order to become productive citizens and; (4) in the future, because of the social-political situation in the past and current social-political trends, the days of self-pride, mutual support, caring and concern over the development of youth will wane.
This work progresses as a chronology of events. The life, influence and times of the selected women is discussed and their common desire to generate community betterment through community support founded in a strong religious faith. Black women activists in New Haven made enduring contributions to their city.
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