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Lugenia Burns Hope
2019
The Neighborhood Union also focused on health in the Black neighborhoods of Atlanta by offering classes in nursing, home hygiene, bathing the sick, prenatal care, and infant care. Hope's work with the Neighborhood Union enabled the union to form the core part of the Colored Women's War Council, a department of the Young Women's Christian Association's (YWCA) War Work Council during World War I. Due to her success with the council in Atlanta, Hope was appointed Special War Work Secretary for the YWCA's War Work Council and put in charge of training hostess-house workers at Camp Upton, New York.1[p.95] After World War I ended, the Colored Women's War Council was reorganized into the Bureau of Colored Work, an organization that dealt with association work for the Black branches within the YWCA.4 Lugenia Burns Hope was also elected to President Herbert Hoover's Colored Advisory Commission and worked with the American Red Cross after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In 1994, former President Barack Obama and Dr. Sokoni Karanja founded the Lugenia Burns Hope Center in Bronzeville, Chicago to encourage leadership development, civic engagement, and community organizing.2 The Atlanta School of Social Work is now the Whitney M. Young School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. In the 1950s, the Neighborhood Union collaborated with the Fulton County Board of Health to found the Neighborhood Union Health Center.3 Lugenia Burns Hope's dedication to improving the quality of life for African Americans in Atlanta and her organizational skills led her to become one of the leaders of reform work in the South during the Progressive Era and left a legacy on the efficiency and effectiveness of community organizing.
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Hidden Figures
2017
Keywords Space Program, NASA, African American, 1960s, Civil Rights \"His faith in us has no limits.\" Serving as foils to the trio are Vivian Mitchell (Kirsten Dunst), supervisor for the East Group of white female computers; and Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons), lead engineer of the Space Task Group. The paradox is that the African-American Christian churches which played such a crucial role in the civil rights movement did not embrace equal rights with regard to gender.
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