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Mark Stoneman @markstoneman@zirk.us

YWCA War Work Council poster, ca. 1917 (United States)

Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002707403

Yellow poster with blue and black text showing a young woman in white with a blue cap reaching out from a blue triangle, symbol of War Work Council relief efforts. The text reads 'REMEMBER THE GIRL BEHIND THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN' and 'Y.W.C.A.' At the very bottom in small letters: 'WAR WORK COUNCIL'.

#WHM #WomensHistory #WWI

Penny Richards @PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

started a #wikipedia article on Ohio educator Constance Ridley Heslip (1892-1972), taught race relations at the @utoledo from 1931 to about 1947, daughter and granddaughter of noted Black leaders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Ridley_Heslip @wikiwomeninred #BlackHistoryMonth #YWCA @simmonsuniv #Toledo

Constance Ridley Heslip, from a 1942 issue of The Crisis; a Black woman wearing a dark dress and strands of pearls

Penny Richards @PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

started a #wikipedia article on US poet, educator, and social worker, Ethel M. Caution-Davis (1887-1981): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Caution-Davis @wikiwomeninred #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenWriters #HarlemRenaissance #YWCA #WellesleyCollege #BostonLatin

A poem by Ethel M. Caution, published in The Crisis in 1929: "Last night I danced on the rim of the moon/Delirious and gay,/Quite different from the mood/I wear about the day.//Athwart my vibrant body/A chiffon cloud I flung,/Diaphanous and azure,/With starpoint brilliants hung.//And oh! my feet flew madly! /My body whirled and swayed!/My soul danced in its ecstacy/Untrammeled, unafraid!//Last night I danced on the rim of the moon/Delirious and gay;/Then slipped into my sober self/Just ere the break of day."

Ethel M. Caution-Davis, from the 1912 yearbook of Wellesley College; a young Black woman with hair parted center and dressed to the nape, wearing a white blouse with a high collar

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