Kay Horsch: 3 books
The National Urban League, 100 Years of Empowering Communities
Ruth Standish Baldwin and George Edmund Haynes, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Ruth Standish Baldwin came from a family of early New England colonists with a history of social activism. The Baldwins were deeply concerned about the poor and disadvantaged. The health and welfare of Negro migrants were their particular interest. Mr. Baldwin, William Henry Baldwin, Jr., was an active...
Eunice Shriver
Special Olympics 1970-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
When the eldest Kennedy son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., died as a bomber pilot during World War II, his father founded the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation in his memory. It was Eunice Kennedy Shriver who set out to find a focus for the foundation. She and her husband, Sargent Shriver, traveled around the...
William Edwin Hall
Boys and Girls Clubs, 1935-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The Boys & Girls Clubs of America (the name that the national organization adopted in 1990) started in the industrial cities of the Northeast. The earliest club was founded in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut — a city that typified the vast changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Modernism,...