This Week in History
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
This week we celebrate the birthday of author Ursula K. Le Guin. Learn more from her by checking out her book, The wave in the mind: talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination. It can be found in our General collection at (PS3562.E42 W38 2004)
The first National Women’s Rights Convention was….held this week in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women’s Rights Convention combined both male and female leadership, and attracted a wide base of support including temperance advocates and abolitionists. Speeches were given on the subjects of equal wages, expanded education and career opportunities, women’s property rights, marriage reform and temperance. Chief among the concerns discussed at the convention was the passage of laws that would give suffrage to women.
Find out more in Women together: a history in documents of the women’s movement in the United States. It can be checked out from (HQ1426.P34 1976)
This week we remember the passing of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who said:
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free … so other people would be also free.”
“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.”
“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”
Rosa Parks, is available through check out. Find it in the General collection at (F334.M753 P373 2000)
1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/3551195631/
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone#/media/File:Sm_lucy_stone_3d02055r.jpg
3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#/media/File:Rosaparks.jpg
