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American history is full of hidden histories, especially when it comes to the histories of women, specifically those of women of color. This book aims to unpack the “many lives” of Shirley Graham Du Bois, who was a woman of mixed race born in…

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Rhiannon Giddens graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in opera in x. While in college she became interested in banjo and she became a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The banjo is an instrument originally brought to…

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Dr. Caroline Still Anderson was a notable physician and advocate for black women’s health in the late nineteenth century. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1868 at the age of nineteen. She later attended the Women’s Medical College of…

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Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is a scholar who has done work in the fields of education, anthropology, museum studies, and Black, feminist studies. She graduated from Oberlin in 1957 with a degree in sociology and from Northwestern University in 1967…

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Shirley Graham Du Bois was a musician, composer, and playwright in the mid 20th century. She began attending Oberlin Conservatory at age 35, supporting two chilldren while she earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees. She wrote and produced…

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Mary Burnett Talbert was a radical civil rights activist and leader in the women’s club movement Talbert played an instrumental role in the WNAACP and NACW organizations and was a powerful black voice during the early movement for equality. Her…

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Betty Glenn Thomas did not consider herself to be a political figure, despite serving as the first Black teacher in the Oberlin Public Schools in a town that has boasted racial progressiveness since its founding in 1833. The controversy surrounding…

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Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper is an academeic with a long standing research interest in Langston Hughes. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1975. While she was a student Oberlin College, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper was very involved in the Black…

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Mary Edmonia Lewis attended Oberlin College from 1859 to 1863. Her time in Oberlin was cut short due accusations that Edmonia Lewis poisoned two of her white classmates. Edmonia Lewis had a successful career as a sculptor, although critics have not…

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Born into slavery in 1837, Fanny Jackson Coppin would graduate from Oberlin College in 1865, the third black woman to do so, and would serve as an African American Advocate and Educator. This serves as an analysis of both the poetry Coppin wrote…

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Graduating from Oberlin in 1957, Sylvia Louise Hill Williams went on to have an illustrious career in Art History. Becoming Director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 1983, she helped move the…

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Frances Walker-Slocum graduated from Oberlin Conservatory in 1945 with a degree in pianoforte. She went on to have a successful performance career. She returned to Oberlin Conservatory to teach in 1976 and gained tenure in 1979. She was the first…

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Ruth Anna Fisher graduated from Oberlin College in 1906 with a degree in English and Latin at the age of 19. She had a career as a historian working for the Carnegie Institution and, eventually, the National Archives. This student curated exhibit…

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This student projectexplores the different conferences and workshops focused on issues of gender and sexuality that were held at Oberlin during the 1970s and 80s. Drawn from the Dean of Students papers, the documents show changing priorities, methods…

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Frances Walker-Slocum earned a Bachelor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory in 1945 and had a successful career as a pianist whose performances always featured the work of Black composers. She became the first Black woman granted tenure at Oberlin…

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This student projectfocuses on the Oberlin College chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) during the World War II era. During the war, the Oberlin YWCA reprioritized its activities, shifting away from an emphasis on domestic skills…

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Eleanor "Bumpy" Stevenson was first lady of Oberlin College from 19461956. She and her husband, Bill Stevenson, had served I with the Red Cross in Europe and North Africa during World War II. While at Oberlin, Eleanor used her free time to become a…

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This student project explores letters by Evelina Belden Paulson, a 1909 Oberlin College graduate who pursued a career in social work. These letters were written while Paulson was working for the Red Cross in Poland, providing humanitarian relief in…

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Ruth Alexander Nichols was a 1915 graduate of Oberlin who became a leading photographer of children in the first half of the twentieth century. This student project chronicles Nichols’ transformation from a young and enthusiastic amateur into an…

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The Mutual Improvement Club was a social and political association formed by prominent Black women in the town of Oberlin, Ohio. This student projectexplores the Club’s yearbooks from 1913 and 1914 to illuminate the ideas and concerns of African…

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This student projectexplores Mary Church Terrell’s fraught relationship to Oberlin and larger commitment to justice for black women. Terrell, an 1884 graduate of Oberlin, was the founding president of the National Association of Colored Women and…

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This student project focuses on 1909 OC graduate Evelina Belden Paulson's work at Hiram House, a settlement house in Cleveland that served Cleveland's immigrant population.

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This student curatedfocuses on Susan Rowena Bird, an 1890 graduate of Oberlin who became a part of a group of missionaries in Shanxi known as the Oberlin Band. Bird was killed in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The project includes letters Bird wrote to…

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This student project focuses on the Oberlin Christian Women's Temperance Union and their vision of an international temperance crusade at the end of the 19th century.

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This student project explores the ideas of female missionaries and includes correspondence by Luella Minor, an 1884 graduate of Oberlin who went on to serve as a missionary in China, and her Chinese student Lan Hua Liu Yui, who came to study at…

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This student curatedexplores the career of Sarah Furnas Wells, an 1865 Oberlin graduate who went on to become a doctor at a time when there were few female physicians. Oberlin awarded her an honorary L. B. degree in 1894.

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This student projectexplores Frances Densmore's correspondence while she was a student at Oberlin Conservatory in the 1880s. Densmore went on to become a leading ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of Native Americans.

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Adelia Field Johnston graduated from Oberlin College in 1856, became the principal of the Women's Department at the college in 1870, and the college's first female professor in 1890. She raised funds for almost every nineteenth century building on…

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Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a leading abolitionist and women's rights advocate. An outspoken, passionate 1847 graduate of Oberlin College, Stone later became a prominent figure in the fight for woman suffrage, leading groups such as the American Equal…

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Lucy Stanton Day, a free-born African American woman, graduated from the Oberlin College Ladies’ Department in 1850, giving the commencement address “A Plea to the Oppressed.” This student project focuses on her struggle to convince the American…

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A student projectthat includes and explores the correspondence between Mary Burton, teacher and member of temperance and reform societies, and Giles Waldo Shurtleff, Union captain for Ohio companies. The letters follow their courtship and marriage…

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A student-curated project about Emilie Palmer's detailed diaries, which allow a glimpse into life in Oberlin during the Civil War and her own Christian faith. Palmer attended Oberlin from 1859-1861.

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A student project about a nearly half century of correspondence between Henry Woodstock, an Oberlin Theological Seminary graduate and a pastor in New England and Kansas, and his wife, sisters, and daughters. The letters address temperance and…

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A student curated collectionthat explores the correspondence between four Pennsylvania sisters, all of whom attended Oberlin College in the 1850s. The four wrote about daily life at the college.

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A student projectabout the 1850 scandal involving Emily Pillsbury Burke, the principal of the Ladies' Department at Oberlin College. Burke, a widow, was accused of kissing a male student and was dismissed. This project includes several documents…

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A student projectabout the essays of Mary Sheldon, an 1852 graduate of Oberlin College who was an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. While at Oberlin, Sheldon was a member of the Ladies' Literary Society and the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society

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A student project focused on the courtship correspondence between James Harris Fairchild, who became the third president of Oberlin, and his future wife, Mary Fletcher Kellogg. The project includes sixteen letters written between 1838 and 1861. The…

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A student project about Irene Ball, who did the Ladies' Course at Oberlin College from 1836 to 1837 and who was active in the abolitionist movement in Illinois. The collection consists for four of Ball's letter to mother, written between 1836 and…

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This digital project explores the contributions of art history professor and curator Ellen Johnson to Oberlin's Department of Art History and its art museum, as well as to the American and European contemporary art world. Johnson received both a BA…

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A brief history and overview of the Oberlin Female Reform Society, which was founded in 1835 and which became one of the largest such societies in the nation. The student digital projectincludes transcriptions of the society's Constitution and…

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