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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• NEWBY-ALEXANDER, CASSANDRA

Titel

Sarah Garland Jones

Ist Teil von

• The Virginia magazine of history and biography, 2018-04, Vol.126 (2), p.210-254

Ort / Verlag

Richmond: THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]although Sarah was best known for pioneering services in the health care arena that enhanced the well-being of black Richmonders, her involvement as part of an emerging cadre of educated leaders who turned the ideology of a womans place on its head made her a role model for future leaders. [...]the True Reformers became a powerful channel of entrepreneurial enterprise, including residential and commercial construction.11 Politics in postwar Virginia wavered between supporters of white supremacy who enacted draconian laws, such as the Vagrancy Act in 1866, suggesting a return to pre-Civil War racial politics, to the interracial cooperation of the Republicans and the Readjusters who believed that participation by all of its citizens in the political, social, and economic activities of Virginia was critical to its recovery. The speakers included John R. Hawkins, president of Kittrell Institute, the Reverend A. L. Gaines of Norfolk, W. W. Browne, president of the True Reformers, and Dr. Sarah G. Jones, the only woman on the program, who discussed health care before an all-male audience.38 Like Sarah, Maggie Walker took the call for self-advocacy literally. Because many black women lived under the stereotype that depicted them as morally and sexually deviant, educated middle-class women took these accusations head-on.39 As one of America's leading reformers and business leaders, Maggie publicly denounced such attitudes against black women in a speech she delivered to an audience of men at St. Luke Hall in Richmond on 1 March 1906. Interestingly, the average age for most women entering medical school was twenty-seven, three years older than Jones was when she entered the field. [...]more female physicians than even female college graduates were married, which again reflected Jones's marital status (Drachmán, "'My 'Partner' in Law and Life,"' 228; Mary Roth Walsh, "Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply:" Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975 [ New Haven, 1977, 1979], 184-86; Moldow, Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington, 17, 20, 34; Hine, Hine Sight, 147-48; Alison Piepmeier, Out in Public: Configurations ofWomens Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America [Chapel Hill, 2004], 78-79, 212).