April 30, 2020 This Week in History, April 26th – May 2nd. Jesse Redmon Fauset 1 “The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us . .... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
April 21, 2020 The Week in History, April 19th – 25th Charles R. Johnson, c 20131 “You can’t escape history, or the needs and neuroses you’ve picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth…. Your every past action... Categories This Week in History
March 16, 2020 The Week in History, March 8th – 14th. Sylvia Beach 1 [On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can’t get at it, or you publish right alongside of... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
March 5, 2020 The Week in History, March 1st – 7th Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.1 “A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.”2 & “It doesn’t matter what country... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
February 25, 2020 The Week in History, Feb. 23rd – 29th. W. E. B. Du Bois1 “The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
February 20, 2020 The Week in History, Feb. 16th – 22nd. Carson McCullers photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1959 July 311 “The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
February 13, 2020 The Week in History, Feb. 9th – 15th Alice Walker in 20071 “In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they’re still beautiful.” ― Alice Walker2 Controversial author and activist Alice Walker3... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
February 6, 2020 The Week in History, Feb. 2nd – 8th Portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell in 1905,1 “None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.” “The idea of winning a doctor’s degree gradually assumed the... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
February 6, 2020 The Week in History, Jan. 26th – Feb. 1st. Bessie Coleman and her Curtiss “Jenny” biplane. c 1922.4 “The air is only the place free from prejudice.” “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
January 19, 2020 This Week in History, Jan. 19th – Jan. 25th. “Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women... Categories Clark College Libraries/This Week in History
