{"id":9406,"date":"2019-10-21T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/?p=9406"},"modified":"2020-01-22T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:24:20","slug":"this-week-in-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/this-week-in-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs 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.\u201d
\n\u2015\u00a0Ursula K. Le Guin<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week we celebrate the birthday of author Ursula K. Le Guin.\u00a0 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. <\/em> It can be found in our General collection at\u00a0(PS3562.E42 W38 2004)<\/p>\n

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Ursula K. Le Guin 1<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The\u00a0first National Women’s Rights Convention<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was\u2026.held this week in 1850 in\u00a0Worcester, Massachusetts<\/a>, the National Women’s Rights Convention combined both male and female leadership, and attracted a wide base of support including\u00a0temperance advocates<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0abolitionists<\/a>. 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\u00a0suffrage to women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lucy Stone helped to form the first convention. 2<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Find out more in\u00a0 Women together: a history in documents of the women’s movement in the United States.<\/em> It can be checked out from (HQ1426.P34 1976)<\/p>\n

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This week we remember the passing of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free … so other people would be also free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King 3<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rosa Parks<\/em>, is available through check out.\u00a0 Find it in the General collection at (F334.M753 P373 2000)<\/p>\n

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1 <\/sup>https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oregonstateuniversity\/3551195631\/
\n2 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucy_Stone#\/media\/File:Sm_lucy_stone_3d02055r.jpg<\/sup>
\n3 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosa_Parks#\/media\/File:Rosaparks.jpg<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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