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EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800: ANNA ADAMS GORDON P/46

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In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Anna Adams Gordon. She lived from 1853 - 1931. Anna and Frances Willard remained close friends until Frances's death in 1898, at which time Lillian M.N. Stevens became president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, with Anne as vice-president.

Anna also turned the attention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to other causes, including Americanisation of immigrants, child welfare, and the condition of women in industry.

Anna also became president of the World League Against Alcoholism, and vice-chairman of the Commission of Nineteen on the National Constitutional Prohibition Amendment.

Anna was, furthermore, deeply involved in the temperance work with the National Council of Women, the International Sunday-School Association, the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Legislative Council etc. 

Anna died in 1931.

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; ANNA ADAMS GORDON P/45

                                                           Read Part One HERE                                                                                    

In this story I will focus on a woman named Anna Adams Gordon. She lived from 1853 - 1931. Her parents were James M. Gordon and Mary Clarkson Gordon, both Christian abolitionists. They lived in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was three, her family moved to Auburndale.

Anna went on to attend Boston High School, Lasell Seminary and Mount Holyoke College. She spent a year abroad in San Sebastian with a sister, Alice Gordon Gulick, who had started a school for girls there in 1871. 

In 1877, Anne met Frances E. Willard at a Dwight L. Moody revival meeting, in the building where Frances was holding temperance meetings. The two became close friends with Anne continuing to play organ for Frances' meetings. Anne eventually moved into Frances' residence as her personal secretary. 

Anne subsequently followed her employer on her travels through the United States, Canada and Europe. spending a year in England.

Read Part Forty-Six HERE

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; MARY CHURCH TERRELL P/44

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In this post I will continue to share the story of a woman named Mary Church Terrell. She lived from 1863 - 1954. Mary also actively embraced women's suffrage, which she saw as essential to elevating the status of black women and, consequently, the entire race. She actively campaigned for black women's suffrage. 

Mary fought for women's suffrage and civil rights because she realised that she belonged "to the only group in this country that has two such huge obstacles to surmount...both sex and race."

In 1909, Mary was among the founders and charter members of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Following the passage of the 19th amendment, Mary focused on broader civil rights. In 1940, she published her autobiography, "A Coloured Woman in a White World," outlining her experiences with discrimination.In 1948, Mary became the first black member of the American Association of University Women, after winning an anti-discrimination lawsuit. 

Mary died in 1854.

Read Part Forty-Five HERE

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; MARY CHURCH TERRELL P/43

 

                                                                  Read Part One HERE

In this  post I will continue to focus on a woman named Mary Church Terell, She lived from 1863 - 1954. Mary's activism was sparked in 1892, when an old friend, Thomas Moss, was lynched in Mephis by whites because his business competed with theirs. 

Mary joined Ida B. Wells-Barnett in anti-lynching campaigns, but Mary's life work focused on the notion of racial uplift, the belief that blacks would help end racial discrimination by advancing themselves and other members of the race through education, work and community activism.

Mary's words - "Lifting as we climb," became the motto of the National Association of Coloured Women, the group she helped found in 1896. She was president from 1896 - 1901. As president, Mary campaigned tirelessly among black organisations and mainstream white organisations, writing and speaking extensively.

Read Post Forty-Four HERE

 

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; MARY CHURCH TERRELL P/42

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Read Part One HERE

In this post I will focus on a woman named Mary Church Terrell. She lived from 1863 - 1954. Her parents were former slaves. Her father, Robert Reed Church, was a successful businessman. Her mother Louisa Ayres Church, owned a hair salon.

The affluence and belief in the importance of education by Mary's parents enabled her to attend the Antioch College Laboratory School in Ohio, and later Oberlin College, where she earned both Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

Mary spent two years teaching at Wilberforce College before moving to Washington D.C., in 1887 to teach at the M Street Coloured High School. There she met and maried Heberton Terrell, in 1891.

Read Part Forty-Three HERE

 

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; EMMA BLANCHE ADAMS STAMP P/41

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In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Emma Blanche Adams Stamp. She lived from 1863 - 1945. Emma and her husband continued to co-lead revivals. In 1912 they held revivals in Iowa and Wisconsin. Emma's husband clearly saw Emma as an equal who was also serving as a conference evangelist even though she could not officially have that title because women could not become elders.

While Emma and her husband saw themselves as partners in ministry, the denominational narrative does not remember them as such. In Emma's April 20, 1945, obit in "The Free Methodist" she is remembered as "standing by her husband as he laboured as a pastor, district elder and general conference evangelist." This re-casting of Emma's ministry was not uncommon as after the defeat of women's ordination in 1894 there was a noticeable shift within the male leadership as they attemped to appear supportive of women in ministry but still restricted them from ordination as elders.

Instead of directly opposing women preachers, the conversation shifted to applauding women who served in more nurturing roles such as the deaconess order establised in 1907. However, the ordination of women was affirmed in 1911. 

Read Part Forty-Two HERE