Yours for the Race: The Life and Work of Josephine Silone Yates
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Yours for the Race: The Life and Work of Josephine Silone Yates
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Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about Josephine Silone Yates, or Josephine Yates (1859-1912), "a longtime teacher at Jefferson City's Lincoln Institute and a writer whose passionate pleas for racial uplift appeared in such periodicals as the 'Southern Workman,' 'The Voice of the Negro,' the 'Woman's Era' ["the first monthly magazine published by black women in this country"], the 'Indianapolis Freeman,' and the Kansas City 'Rising Son,' provid[ing] the most distinctive mid-American voice in this struggle." Native of New York moving to Jefferson City, Missouri in 1881 as a teacher and then coming to Kansas City about 1889 as a writer and teacher (later in her career at Lincoln High School), "serv[ing] as the leading force behind and the first president of the Women's League of Kansas City" in 1893 with a "house at 1625 Cottage Street as a 'Home for Working Girls.'"
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Creator: Mackey, Cindy M.
Creator: Kremer, Gary R.
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1996-01
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Missouri Historical Review
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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