Introduction It is commonly asserted that women retired into their homes after the vote was won. This is nonsense. Around the world, whenever the vote was won by women, women continued to agitate, demonstrate, demand and declare that women’s rights…
Tag: Una Marson
Black History Month: What is Black?
What is Black? Searching for that word within the Cultural Formation tag in the Orlando digital history of women’s writing brings up, of course, a number of writers with unmixed African descent: from Phillis Wheatley and Mary Prince through Zora…
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Mary Morris-Knibb accuses the Child Welfare Association of discrimination, 17 November 1938.
Mr Morgan Jones: So I take it there now exists in this town, the city of Kingston, two bodies [providing child welfare services], one of which is composed of your own people – Jamaicans – and another composed of people…
Una Marson 1905-65
In a small, sparsely furnished office in Kingston in the spring of 1928 Jamaica’s feisty first woman editor-publisher Una Marson proudly proclaimed, ‘This is the age of woman: what man has done women may do’. Born in 1905 in the…