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Elizabeth Tate
Elizabeth Crawford ("Bettye") Tate (June 22, 1906 – September 11, 1999) was a civil rights advocate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s that Racial segregation, desegregated African-Americans across the United States, United States of America. Biography Tate graduated from Fairfield High School, Iowa, in 1926. Tate worked at the cardiovascular lab at the University of Iowa hospital; she retired in 1976. In 1938 Tate bought a house for $3,300 that would later become a boarding house in Iowa City for African-American students who were not allowed to use the normal university accommodation. In the house Tate did the cooking while the boys staying at the house cleaned up. The house, Tate Arms, was named an historic landmark in 2014 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. Tate Arms started housing black students in 1938, and created a "home away from home" for the people who lived there. Tate sold the building in 1979. Honors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' political freedom, freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of society and the State (polity), state. Civil rights generally include ensuring peoples' physical and mental integrity, right to life, life, and safety, protection from discrimination, the right to privacy, the freedom of freedom of thought, thought, freedom of speech, speech, freedom of religion, religion, freedom of the press, press, freedom of assembly, assembly, and freedom of movement, movement. Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of Participation (decision making), participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
